Military Oppression

A Chinese community constructs and preserves the memory of their loved ones, the victims of racial and political violence in Banyuwangi

With no internal wars to fight, Yudhoyono can afford to reform the military.

Australian volunteer LEON JONES was living in Aceh in the lead-up to the violence that eventualy left up to 2000 dead.

IRIP NEWS SERVICE speaks with a member of Dili's Catholic Commission for Education and uncovers an assassination attempt against Nobel prize winner Bishop Belo

Timorese women raped by Indonesian militias need justice. So do all the other women who survived New Order abuse

Journalists covering the conflict in Aceh were embedded in a fierce propaganda war

Challenging the myths about Aceh’s national liberation movement

Military business brings many problems to Papua

The East Timorese resistance movement also committed crimes.

Overwhelming data makes the East Timor report rock solid

New Human Rights Court fails victims’ calls for justice.

Missionaries and the military co-operate in converting the Asmat to Christianity.

The Suharto Government's political prisoners have only very rarely been allowed to speak. Here, for the first time, we have an autobiographical story written by a woman, the wife of an ex-tapol, the mother of his child.

The following excerpts are taken from a diary of letters kept by an Australian woman who lived in Java, Kalimantan and Bali for nine years. In this letter, written in January 1978, the author describes her visit to a detention camp for women political prisoners Just after Christmas 1977. The prisoners have since been released. The letter begins with a description of the long drive from Semarang west to Pelantungan where the camp was located up in the mountains. The visit was arranged by a Dutch pastor, 'Co'. Fenton-Huie was accompanied by the pastor's wife, Phia, and a Dutch nursing sister, Truus. After abandoning their car which could not travel the last stretch of the rough rocky road, the women had to walk the final kilometres to the camp, which also held 40 delinquent boys. The visitors shared a simple Indonesian meal in the house of one of the guards before entering 'a large barracks-type hall' to witness the camp's Christmas concert.