Communal Violence

Locals contest national citizenship rights in North Maluku

Locals react coolly to ex-transmigrants who return to Java after fleeing violence elsewhere

The slaughter of Indonesians by young nationalists has been hidden by romantic narratives of the independence struggle

Book Review: Imam Samudra’s Revenge, by Angus McIntyre

Aceh Singkil’s recent church burning may reflect common ways Indonesians have linked religion and region

Yogyakarta’s notorious Brajamusti elects a president

The reality for women survivors of conflict-related violence in Indonesia does not match the rhetoric

Ongoing impunity for perpetrators continues to impact on the lives of women survivors

Young researchers discover that the victims of history hold a secret every Indonesian should know

Almost sixteen years on, Jakarta's first ethnic Chinese governor joins in efforts to keep the memory of the events of May 1998 from fading

Herb Feith Annual Memorial Lecture 2014

Insurrectionary anarchists, with international connections, nihilist values and a penchant for arson, are moving to fill the vacuum on the left

In 2012 significant new information exposed critical truths about the 1965 massacres in Indonesia, but there remain major obstacles to recovery and reconciliation

People in rural Papua are more interested in basic services than grand political struggles

A culture that suppresses conflict disguises decades-long tensions in Balinese communities

Tarakan’s riots illustrate the risks of collusive public contracting and the continued weakness of local security responses

Conflict between Timorese youth gangs and martial arts groups hark back to the Indonesian occupation

Violence at the National Monument in Jakarta almost caused a conflict between Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah in Lamongan

Hindu-Muslim tensions have mounted, but not to boiling point