On the date of today, in 1962, then President Sukarno gave his yearly Independence Day speech of which the English version received that year the title ‘A Year of Triumph’. The then very recent New York or Bunker Agreement between Indonesia and the Netherlands in which Papua was, under certain conditions, handed over to Indonesia explains the title.

The tangled logic of the state of Indonesia’s assertion of sovereignity over western Papua.

Captain Westerling, hero against Javanese imperialism or villain of its Dutch counterpart.

Adam Malik, former vice president in the Soeharto era, is accused of having been an American CIA agent.

Justice Party political ads on television, how the PKS is approaching the 2009 election.

Results for the East Java election and photos of some campaign banners, posters and slogans for each team.

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

Ross sees the young Pramoedya Ananta Toer as a bullying commissar of literature.

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

The nature of the massacres of 1965-66.