Edition 137: Jul-Sep 2019 - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

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Drugs and drug policy

Anti-drugs support. Healthy millennials without drugs 2019 / ANTARA FOTO/Asep Fathulrahman

Drug use in Indonesia has a long history

Crystal meth users in Indonesia

Officials inspect a shipment of sabu intercepted at Lampung airport on its way to Makassar/ ANTARA FOTO Hendra Nurdiyansyah

Not all users of sabu-sabu are dependant on it, but their experiences are ignored by the law

Photo essay: Woman to woman

A unique drug rehabilitation centre in Bogor helps women regain their independence

From drug control to harm reduction

Rumah Cemara: Local bands call for a redirection of law enforcement expenditure towards harm reduction investment

Harm reduction programs are proven to save lives but the Indonesian government is in no hurry to fund them

Criminal patients

A National Narcotics Board poster displaying messaging from The International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 2014 in Indonesia / Lex Kuiper

People who use drugs occupy an ambiguous position in Indonesian government rhetoric

Drugs and the death penalty

Reporters scramble to get a picture at the Wirogunan Penitentiary [TEMPO/Pius Erlangga]

Indonesia’s ill-informed war on drugs endangers and ends lives rather than saving them

Populism versus justice

Humphrey Ejike Jefferson’s body awaiting cremation the morning after his execution / LBH Masyarkat

Indonesia’s legal system is too flawed to sentence people to death

Cannabis, for starters

LGN activists at the Global Marijuana March in the city of Makassar, 2015 / Asdal (LGN Makassar)

The growing support for cannabis decriminalisation in Indonesia could both help and hinder broader drug reform

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