Yudhoyono Presidency

Much aid comes with strings attached – crippling loan repayments, exploitation of resources and vulnerability to unfriendly international markets

Many are ambivalent about international aid

An Indonesian NGO finds injustices in unexpected places

NGOs and local people work together to rebuild communities, until feudalism intervenes

An Australian aid worker recounts the challenge of rehabilitating a devastated society

Foreign policy not poverty reduction drives the Australian aid program

Economists propose an alternative strategy to the prevailing neo-liberal ideology for reducing poverty

Aid works best when it seeks to confront social injustice

Reintegration funds have caused problems as well as solving them.

An Australian aid worker reflects on post-tsunami reconstruction.

The village of Oelua proves that Indonesians can live with difference.

Blanket travel warnings just don’t make sense

Networking sites are popular with young Indonesians

Here’s looking at you, kids

Are recent fatwa evidence that moderate Islam is a myth?

Djenar Maesa Ayu – one of Indonesia’s exciting new female authors

Underage women in the commercial sex trade

Universal access to treatment is not just a dream

HIV prevention in West Jakarta’s red light district