Edition 60: Oct-Dec 2000 - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

Nov 26, 2024 Last Updated 2:20 AM, Oct 31, 2024

Inside Indonesia

The book bridge

Review: Lontar books open a window on the hidden lives of ordinary Indonesians

From the place of the dead - The epic struggles of Bishop Belo of East Timor

Review: Biographies of even undisputed heroes can be problematic

The politics of environment in Southeast Asia - Resources and resistance

Review: A new, engaging collection of writing on environmental disputes in Southeast Asia

In this issue

Colonial periphery

Sumatra by bus

By butt-busting bus from Jakarta to the archipelago's western extremity

Teachers do it

Things happen when dozens of Bahasa Indonesia teachers gather in an Australian country town

Star Wars

Obi-Wan Wiranto? Princess Megawati? Or Sultan Yoda?

Revisiting Inco

For this Sulawesi nickel miner, reformasi means more pressure from the people

Dirty landlord

A huge nickel mine in Sulawesi is set to expand. What do the locals think?

This complex crisis

Two years down the track, how does the economic crisis affect the people?

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