An excerpt from 'Report from East Java' detailing examples of 'crushing actions' in 1965.

How separatists are dealt with in West Papua; the torture of Reverend Kindeman Gire.

A smouldering civil war among the elites, Army power plays, and Chinese scapegoats.

The banning of "Balibo" the movie, screenings of it in Jakarta, and talkative Colonel Gatot Purwanto.

A newly released film on East Timor in 1999 opens old wounds between Indonesia and Australia.

Different approaches to Abu Bakar Bashir from the police and military in Central Java.

Madrotter on Bandung rockers "Homicide", their music and battles with the FPI.

BI governor Boediono for vice president, whether a neo-liberal and not religious enough.

Who is behind the recent violence in Aceh, and the sharia laws.

Demilitarization in Papua, Aceh, and Maluku, the difficult process of removing military influence in politics.

Purba Negoro sees broad sunlit uplands for East Timor-Indonesia relations, and current Australian nefariousness.

Investigations into kidnapped and murdered activists of 1997/98, questioning of former generals like president Yudhoyono.

Purba Negoro on perceived threats to national unity.

Lairedion on the Dutch state being sued over war crimes at Rawagede, West Java.

Purba Negoro looks at Indonesian defence issues in somewhat mystical Javanese terms.

Bibit–Rustriningsih's win in Central Java continues PDI-P domination, with the PKS a distant third.

Sadanand Dhume's My Friend the Fanatic - Travels with an Indonesian Islamist.

The various ism problems that Indonesia faces, neo-liberalism, capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, and materialism.

Islamic parties on track for victory in the West Java election.

Australia's regional hegemonic aspirations and Indonesian defence procurements.

Celebrity thugs and murderers in prison and on TV, Enrico Guterres, Theo Toemion, and the "lovely" Lidya Pratiwi.

What if the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) had taken over in 1965.

Military men in politics and whether the Indonesian people are ready for democracy.

The nature of the massacres of 1965-66.

Whether there was a genocide in 1965 and what happened to the survivors.

Indonesian comfort women under the Japanese.