Guided Democracy

Indonesia’s premier historian

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Why is it so hard to remember the evils of the past? ROB GOODFELLOW explores the pain, and the exhilaration, of memory.

LAINE BERMAN sheds a tear for the late great Indonesian comic.

Throughout its history, outsiders wanted the women's movement to be nationalist first of all. Now women are finding their own voice

The history of football is a history of Indonesia itself

Review: Abidin Kusno examines trends in architectural design and urban planning in Jakarta

A General of the Sukarno years criticises today's military

Dirk Ayamiseba will be sadly missed by his family and all those who knew and respected this great Papuan leader

Indonesia’s troubles today result from the pursuit of repressive forms of stability

Scholarly research and political reality meet in a Dutch inquiry into Papua

There’s more than subversion in Indonesian jokes

Pramoedya's reputation is still dogged by the cultural polemics of the Sukarno era

A younger writer remembers Pramoedya’s influence on his own life and work.