Ridwan Saidi says people migrating to Jakarta are often too narrow in their cultural perspective.

The May 1998 riots in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities, mass rapes, anti-Chinese sentiment, and how the rioters came to be viewed.

Examples of Islamic-Javanese religious and cultural syncretism.

Indonesians are being denied much of the country’s greatest literature, for political reasons.

Islamic & Western Civilization, and Muslims and Christians, have much in common.

The red light brothel district, or lokalisasi, of Dolly in Surabaya.

On what gives countries the rights to make territorial claims.

What if there had been a communist victory in 1965.

The nature of the anti-communist massacres in Indonesia of 1965-66.

Indonesian comfort women under the Japanese.

Whether Indonesia should seek compensation and reparations from the Netherlands?

Discrimination against minority groups in Indonesia.

Achmad worries that Indonesia’s U.F.O. technology will be lost to foreigners.

President Sukarno and Aidit’s communist coup attempt in 1965.

Remembering the Communist Party (PKI) in the post Suharto era.

Former president Suharto and stolen state assets.

Metro TV’s Chinese-language news service, Xin Wen.

There was no genocide or serious human rights abuse in East Timor.

The Attorney General Office’s banning of dozens of history books.

Indonesian Chinese people and Islam.

A memoir of the Japanese occupation of Java, Indonesia.

Anti-Chinese feeling in Indonesia, 1996-1999.

What Islam is and why people love it.

Conspiracy theories and paranoia from former military commander Prabowo Subianto.

Some interesting works on Mohamed Suharto, or Soeharto, former president of Indonesia including some works of biography.

Some of the key events in west Papua’s past, leading up to integration with Indonesia.

The similarities in the cases of the murders of two human rights activists, Munir Said Thalib in Indonesia and Somchai Neelaphaijit in Thailand.

Cases of political disappearances in the last years of the Suharto regime.

New book out concerning a journalist’s memories of the tumultous period of the late 1990’s in Indonesia, In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos.

Future of Indonesia book.

A scholarly paper looks at the process of Islamicization of the people of northern Lombok.

The 1965-1966 pogroms in East Java.

Hugh Fitzgerald makes a fool of himself.