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Eight years after 1999

Displaced East Timorese children go hungry in Indonesian West Timor

Direct elections in South Sulawesi show that a new breed of political godfathers is coming to power in Indonesia’s regions. Parties are increasingly irrelevant, but electoral competition is real.

Indonesia’s premier historian

Women in the Ministry of Finance face significant obstacles to advancement

Indonesia’s Muslim educators support democracy, but grapple with how to make that commitment consistent with Islamic law.

But her husband won’t come to the party.

The rise, fall, and re-branding of a celebrity preacher

A community takes a fresh look at water

Review: A not-so-distant horror: Mass Violence in East Timor

Joseph Nevins challenges the idea that external powers simply failed to act in the face of the brutal occupation of East Timor.

Understanding the Indonesian Council of Ulamas

Eight years after 1999

Rise of the clans

Sartono Kartodirdjo, 1921-2007

Glass ceiling in government

Making democracy work, Islamically

This woman wants polygamy

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Review: A not-so-distant horror: Mass Violence in East Timor

Illiberal but not intolerant

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