JASON PRICE talks with the new middle class and discovers they love progress but keep the poor at arms length.
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Recovering women's history
Saskia Eleonora Wieringa, The politicization of gender relations in Indonesia: The Indonesian women's movement and Gerwani until the New Order state, Amsterdam: Universiteitsbibliotheek (PhD thesis), 1995.
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Big projects, little people
After 20 years, LEA JELLINEK returns to Jakarta's kampungs only to find many demolished for condominiums. The mood of their constantly evicted residents oscillates between resignation and resistance.
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A democratic Asia?
>Garry Rodan (ed.), Political oppositions in industrialising Asia Routledge Price, 1996, 338 pp. RRP: AU$36.95.
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Bali's other face
Geoffrey Robinson, The dark side of Paradise: political violence in Bali, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995, xxii, 341 pp.
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Agung Kurniawan: 'My main theme is violence'
TOM PLUMMER talks with a graphic artist in Yogyakarta whose work is drawing international praise.
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Pramudya film
Bernie Ijdis (director), The Great Post Road, Pieter van Huystree Film & TV (producer), Netherlands, 1996, 16mm, 150 mins.
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Oh for democracy
R. William Liddle, Leadership and culture in Indonesian politics, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1996, 314pp.
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Ecotourism: can it save the orangutans?
RACHEL DREWRY investigates ecotourism as a conservation tool.
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Spread the word
MELODY KEMP discovers some quiet achievers in environmental education -- who accept no foreign aid.
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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