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An interview with Joshua Oppenheimer

Anwar Congo (right) being made up, Final Cut for Real
The filmmaker explains that The Act of Killing exposes the imagination of terror
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Review: An act of manipulation?

Credit: Final Cut for Real
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing is a bold, disturbing and ultimately unsatisfactory exploration of the place of violence in modern Indonesia
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'Truth takes a while, justice even longer'

'Truth takes a while, justice even longer'
In 2012 significant new information exposed critical truths about the 1965 massacres in Indonesia, but there remain major obstacles to recovery and reconciliation
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Inside Indonesia: Conception and birth

Inside Indonesia: Conception and birth
One of the founders of Inside Indonesia reflects on the origins and earliest days of the magazine
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Coins for the KPK

Coins for the KPK
A public donation campaign shames the national legislature into supporting Indonesia’s premier anti-corruption agency
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Review: West Papua’s freedom struggle in its global context

Review: West Papua’s freedom struggle in its global context
Eben Kiksey invites the world to wake up to a crucial struggle unfolding in the Pacific
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Review: The making of an Indonesian human rights lawyer

Review: The making of an Indonesian human rights lawyer
Dan Lev explains how an outsider became a national hero
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What gives rise to moral outrage?

What gives rise to moral outrage?
Rather than being merely the result of religious extremism, recent cases of moral outrage point to a wide range of current political and social problems
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Teaching remote Indonesia

Teaching remote Indonesia
A new program sends Indonesia’s best and brightest graduates to teach children in its poorest villages
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Indonesia’s secret police weapon

Indonesia’s secret police weapon
Perfectly coiffed hair and rose-pink cheeks underpin Polri’s latest policing tactic
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