New Order

Impoverished villagers kill huge numbers of migrating birds resting on Java's foreshores each year. JOHN McCARTHY reports

CAROL WARREN reports on developments at Padanggalak, where outside money and graft encounter strong opposition.

ANGELA ROMANO explores the 'envelope culture' among journalists

SIMON ANDREWARTHA discovers a quiet invasion by outsiders, even in the remotest villages.

Why is it so hard to remember the evils of the past? ROB GOODFELLOW explores the pain, and the exhilaration, of memory.

LAINE BERMAN sheds a tear for the late great Indonesian comic.

Coastal villagers will protect reefs if they know it is in their interest. IAN DUTTON and BRIAN CRAWFORD report on an international project that goes to the cutting edge.

Greed and stupidity destroy the last peatland wilderness, home to thousands of orangutan

Suharto cronies control an ASEAN-wide oil palm industry with an appalling environmental record

Lesbians want to be themselves

Throughout its history, outsiders wanted the women's movement to be nationalist first of all. Now women are finding their own voice

He was a wood carver, musician, and mover and shaker for the arts on Biak

Contemporary art in Papua is about new and contested identities

Without Suharto, who will protect Freeport from itself?

What gifts did Aussie prime ministers bestow on President Suharto?

New Order generals needed new history books. Nugroho Notosusanto was their man.

The history of football is a history of Indonesia itself

After the New Order, the lid on Indonesia's past is beginning to lift

Indonesian military intelligence kept Australia fully informed (and complicit) in its 1975 East Timor invasion plans