Edition 84: Oct-Dec 2005 - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

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Peace at last?

The latest agreement in Aceh seems too good to be true, but it’s also Aceh’s best chance for peace yet.

Aid must embrace social change

Aid must embrace social change

Partnership or pretence

Who should call the shots – international donors or local NGOs?

A free lunch?

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

The activists' dilemma

Many are ambivalent about international aid

Where it hurts in Papua

An Indonesian NGO finds injustices in unexpected places

Reconstruction meets resistance

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

Aceh after the tsunami

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

Aid with strings attached

Foreign policy not poverty reduction drives the Australian aid program

IMF aid helping the poor?

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

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