Review: 'Enduring impunity': Women surviving atrocities in the absence of justice
Ongoing impunity for perpetrators continues to impact on the lives of women survivors
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Inside Indonesia’s death penalty debate
Leading Indonesian commentators explain why the death penalty issue continues to have public and political support
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Press representation of the ‘Bali Nine’ in Indonesia and Australia
A survey reveals that reporting of the Australians on death row did not foster better understanding of each country’s point of view
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Trials of a mother
For women giving birth in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and other rural and remote parts of Indonesia, adequate facilities and trained health workers are not easily reached
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Review: The Crocodile Hole
Saskia Wieringa’s latest novel brings to life a dark period in Indonesia’s past
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The Crocodile Hole
Indonesia, beginning of the 1980s. The young journalist Tommy comes into contact with the survivors of the genocide that the New Order regime of General Suharto carried out. To her bewilderment she hears stories about lurid dancing, castrations and the murder by young girls of a number of generals in the night of October 1 1965. Guided by Ibu Sri, herself a former prisoner and a member of the women’s organisation that was held responsible for these alleged sexual and sadistic perversions she sets herself the task to unravel these fantasies. Who invented these hateful lies which were meant to incite mass organizations to murder possibly one million of their neighbors? Tommy is betrayed and thrown into prison.
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Bringing Indonesian literature to the world
Lontar Publishing’s John McGlynn speaks with Petia Dimitrova about the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 at which Indonesia is the Guest of Honour nation and about the challenges of publishing Indonesian literature in translation
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Review: Lontar’s Modern Library of Indonesian Literature
Translations of Indonesian literature offer insights into both the universality and particularity of Indonesian culture and society
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LGBT Indonesians bring entertainment and activism together online
CONQ – a web series has captured a huge and loyal viewing audience
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Review: Democracy, corruption and the politics of spirits in contemporary Indonesia
Nils Bubandt brings an exciting new approach to the study of Indonesia's politics
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More than six decades after being inspired as an undergraduate in Sydney, Ron Witton retraces his Indonesian language teacher's journey back to Suriname