Habibie Presidency

Giving up partisan politics?
Indonesia's biggest Muslim organizations are having second thoughts about partisan politics
Arnold Ap and Theys Eluay
Political assassinations targeted West Papua’s culture and political identity
Rulers in their own country?
Special autonomy and Papuan aspirations have been thwarted by Jakarta and hampered by the administrative fragmentation sponsored by local politicians
A new artistic order?
The arts scene has changed radically since 1998, but some of the old uncertainties remain
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NGOs are having to come to terms with the demands of the governance agenda
Personality cults
Foreign news coverage needs to focus on Indonesia’s people, not just its leaders
Trouble in Paradise
A land conflict on the tourist island of Gili Trawangan dates back decades
Policy drift
Ten years after Suharto, the economy is not recovering fast enough
The peace dividend
With no internal wars to fight, Yudhoyono can afford to reform the military.
Basket case to showcase
How Indonesia’s democratic transition transformed Aceh.
Stable but unpopular
Indonesians have a love-hate relationship with their political parties.
Ten years of democratisation
Our new edition shows how far Indonesia has come, and how much remains to be done.
Eight years after 1999
Displaced East Timorese children go hungry in Indonesian West Timor
Remembering Ong
About cooking, studying Java, and other serious pleasures