Economy

As reconstruction moves into high gear, it’s time to listen to tsunami victims

Aid must embrace social change

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Observing social change in Papua

A farmer’s daughter takes control and makes a difference

Why is organised labour missing from the democracy movement?

Just a public relations exercise that undermines workers’ rights

Indonesia’s labour movement needs to consolidate the gains of 1998

In Aceh and Timor, violence remains an attractive option for men even after the peace