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• Indonesia: The Muslim Cyber Army: what is it and what does it want? – Indonesia at Melbourne. March 20, 2018
• Indonesia: Indonesia's minority report – New Mandala. February 14, 2018

• Indonesia: Absent Ahok, anti-Chinese sentiment on artists' minds at Indonesia shows that test the bounds of tolerance – South China Morning Post. November 17, 2017
• Indonesia: Why is the Industrial Relations Court failing workers? – Indonesia at Melbourne. November 15, 2017
• Indonesia: Behind Indonesia's illiberal turn – New Mandala. October 20, 2017
• Indonesia: A new ideological contestation emerging in Indonesia? – ISEAS Perspectives. October 19, 2017
• Indonesia: 52 years after fascist genocide, Indonesians scared of 'communist ghosts' – Dissident Voice. October 9, 2017
• Indonesia: The road to solidarity, Indonesia June 2017 – The Cloudland Collective. August 28, 2017
• Indonesia: Distinguishing piety and fundamentalism in Indonesian Muslims – New Mandala. August 17, 2017

Indonesia: Perppu Ormas: Muzzling democracy, elite conflict and the rise of fundamentalism – Arah Juang. July 2017
• East Timor: In Timor-Leste, more power-sharing likely but election hard to pick – Asia Pacific Report. July 20, 2017
• Indonesia: Constitutional Court lets local governments off the leash – Indonesia at Melbourne. July 4, 2017
• Indonesia: Identity politics: mobilising religious sentiment in democratic Indonesia – Indonesia at Melbourne. June 14, 2017
• Indonesia: Jakarta is still the oligarchs' turf – New Mandala. June 12, 2017
• Indonesia: Indonesian Borneo is finished: They also sell orangutans into sex slavery – Counter Punch. June 2, 2017
• Indonesia: Anti-Ahok protests: why were Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah sidelined? – Indonesia at Melbourne. May 4, 2017
• Indonesia: Trump's Indonesian allies in bed with ISIS-backed militia seeking to oust elected president – The Intercept. April 19, 2017
• Indonesia: A former first lady presses on for a tolerant, feminist Islam – New York Times. April 7, 2017
• East Timor: Southeast Asia's newest nation faces an election that could make or break its future – Southeast Asia Globe. January 16, 2017

• Indonesia: Bigger than Ahok: explaining the 2 December mass rally – Indonesia at – Melbourne. December 7, 2016
• Indonesia: Old politics rises to challenge new politics in Jakarta – ISEAS Perspectives – November 22, 2016
• Indonesia: Q&A: Melissa Crouch on the Blasphemy Law – Indonesia at Melbourne. November 22, 2016
• Indonesia: $40bn to save Jakarta: the story of the Great Garuda – The Guardian. November 22, 2016
• West Papua: How mining and the military created an HIV epidemic in Indonesia's Papua – IRIN News. November 21, 2016
• Indonesia: Who constructed LGBT identity in Indonesia? – New Mandala. November 21, 2016
• Indonesia: 'Proxyphobia': Indonesian military's fear campaign trumps Trump's – New Mandala. November 17, 2016
• Asia-Pacific: Offshore detention: Australia's recent immigration history a 'human rights catastrophe' – The Guardian. November 13, 2016
• Indonesia: Indonesia's long wait for its own criminal code – Indonesia at Melbourne. November 10, 2016
• India: India's crackdown in Kashmir: is this the world's first mass blinding? – The Guardian. November 8, 2016
• West Papua: The $100bn gold mine and the West Papuans who say they are counting the cost – The Guardian (Australia). November 2, 2016
• West Papua: Clumsy diplomacy: Indonesia, Papua and the Pacific – Indonesia at Melbourne. October 12, 2016
• Indonesia: First blasphemy, now homosexuality? – Indonesia at Melbourne. August 23, 2016
• West Papua: Good-bye, Indonesia – Jacobin Mag. July 29, 2016
• Indonesia: Women still not safe from sexual abuse in Indonesia – Concord Review. July 26, 2016
• Indonesia: Justice denied? – Inside Indonesia. July-September, 2016
• Indonesia: A dispensable threat – Inside Indonesia. April-June, 2016
• East Timor: The Timor Gap dispute with Australia inspires Timorese political activism – Max Lane, ISEAS Perspective. June 9, 2016
• West Papua: Silencing West Papuan independence supporters overseas – Lacuna Magazine. April 18, 2016
• Indonesia: Indonesia is still burning – Take Part. April 18, 2016
• Indonesia: Murdering army, silent church – Inside Indonesia. April-June, 2016
• Indonesia: Accomplice to atrocity? – Inside Indonesia. April-June, 2016
• Indonesia: Testimony of a messenger – Inside Indonesia. April-June, 2016
• Indonesia: Morality and LGBT rights in Indonesia – New Mandala. March 16, 2016
• Indonesia: Why Indonesia urgently needs to address the burning issue of palm oil – World Finance. January 12, 2016

• Indonesia: Haze of democracy – Inside Indonesia. October-Decmber 2015
• East Timor: The truth about John Howard's East Timor 'liberation' – The Sunday Paper. December 19, 2015
• East Timor: Indonesia's Fretilin hit-list and Australia's quiet support for it – New Matilda. December 14, 2015
• Indonesia: 50 Years since 30 September, 1965: The gradual erosion of a political taboo – Max Lane, ISEAS Perspective. November 26, 2015
• Indonesia: Enduring impunity – Inside Indonesia. October-Decmber 2015
• Indonesia: The cruelest cut – New Mandala. November 19, 2015
• Indonesia: Of murder, memory, corruption and power – New Mandala. November 18, 2015
• Burma: The realities of power in Myanmar – New Mandala. November 16, 2015
• Indonesia: Indonesia and the absent witness of 1965 – Independent Australia. November 10, 2015
• Indonesia: Amidst Indonesia's nationalist atmospherics: The changing politics of Jokowi's economics – Max Lane, ISEAS Perspective. November 4, 2015
• Indonesa: 1965: Evidence from Canadian documents – ETAN Blog. October 27, 2015
• Indonesia: Despite military crackdown in Papua & other rights abuses, Obama hosts Indonesian president in D.C. – Democracy Now!. October 27, 2015
• Indonesia: Stop Impunity Now – Inside Indonesia. October-December 2015
• Indonesia: Citizenship restored – Inside Indonesia. October-December 2015
• Indonesia: Documenting genocide – Inside Indonesia. October-December 2015
• Indonesia: Australia's Role in the 1965-66 Communist Massacres in Indonesia – Australian Institute of International Affairs. September 30, 2015
• Burma: With official help, radical Buddhists target Muslim businesses – Myanmar Now. September 17, 2015
• Indonesia: After the spill: Montara's murky shadow lingers six years on – Independent Australia. August 25, 2015
• Indonesia: The politics of Widodo’s prioritisation of accelerated infrastructure construction – ISEAS Perspective. August 18, 2015
• Indonesia: 'The Look of Silence': Will new film force us to acknowledge role in 1965 Indonesian genocide? – Reuters. August 3, 2015
• West Papua: MSG's challenge, Indonesia's Melanesian foray – Pacific Islands Reports. June 16, 2015
• West Papua: Press freedom in Papua? – New Mandala. May 11, 2015
• Burma: The dirty fossil fuel secret behind Burma's democratic fairytale – The Guardian. April 26, 2015
• Indonesia: What we've got here is failure to communicate – New Mandala. April 15, 2015
• Indonesia: Widodo, the death sentence and Indonesia's political vacuum – Max Lane. March 13, 2015
• Aceh: Aceh stays strong on shariah law despite criticism – Jakarta Globe. March 9, 2015
• Indonesia: Jokowi: modern man of the people or divine clown? – New Mandala. March 4, 2015
• West Papua: High tension in Papua and West Papua – Sydney Morning Herald. February 7, 2015
• West Papua: Merdeka! Struggle and survival in West Papua – Red Flag. January 29, 2015
• West Papua: Papua's hidden past haunts Jokowi presidency – The Diplomat. January 24, 2015
• Cambodia: Human Rights Watch takes a hatchet to history – The Cambodia Herald. January 18, 2015
• Indonesia: Stopping the killers from killing – Counter Punch interview with Allan Nairn. January 8, 2015
• West Papua: Indonesian security forces in West Papua (Part 2) – West Papua Report. January 2015

• Indonesia: In Jakarta, that sinking feeling is all too real – Reuters. December 23, 2014
• West Papua: Indonesian security forces in West Papua (Part 1) – West Papua Report. December 2014
• West Papua: Jokowi: hope for Papua? – New Manadla. November 24, 2014
• West Papua: MSG headache, West Papuan heartache? Indonesia's Melanesian foray – Asia Pacific Journal. November 24, 2014
• Indonesia: The paradox of virtual youth politics – Inside Indonesia. October-December 2014
• Indonesia: Secret documents link Hendropriyono, As'ad to Munir assassination (Hendropriyono Part 2) – Allan Nairn. November 24, 2014
• Burma: What Obama should tell Thein Sein – Asia Times. November 14, 2014
• Indonesia: As Indonesia's new president takes office, cabinet includes officials tied to atrocities of old – Democracy Now. October 28, 2014
• Hendropriyono admits 'command responsibility' in Munir assassination – Part 1 – Allannairn.org. October 27, 2014
• Indonesia: Jokowi fails his first test – New Mandala. October 27, 2014
• Indonesia: Post-elections Indonesia: Towards a crisis of government? – Max Lane, ISEAS Perspective. October 16, 2014
• Indonesia: Lessons learned from Indonesia's conflicts: Aceh, Poso and Papua – Inside Indonesia. October-December 2014
• Indonesia: Maluku trial highlights Indonesia's 'zero tolerance' of dissen – Jakarta Globe. October 3, 2014
• East Timor: Big Oil stands by as con man swindles East Timor – Canberra Times. September 10, 2014
• West Papua: Timor's success, Papua's struggle – West Papua Report. September 2014
• PNG: PNG women subjected to horrifying domestic violence – Sydney Morning Herald. August 31, 2014
• Indonesia: President Jokowi: ten years too soon? – New Mandala. August 11, 2014
• Indonesia: We was robbed – New Mandala. July 24, 2014
• East Timor: Why Timor-Leste's stability could be deceptive – IRIN. July 18, 2014
• Indonesia: Trouble in the East? – New Mandala. July 16, 2014
• Indonesia: Voting Number 1 – New Mandala. July 15, 2014
• Indonesia: Stand by your man – New Mandala. July 14, 2014
• Indonesia: Lampung's sugar-coated elections – Inside Indonesia. July-September 2014
• Philippines: Akbayan gives in to LP framework – Philippine Daily Inquirer. July 13, 2014
• Indonesia: How to read a quick count – New Mandala. July 11, 2014
• Indonesia: The perils of loyalty – New Mandala. July 4, 2014
• Indonesia: Prabowo's game plan – New Mandala. July 10, 2014
• Indonesia: The business of politics in Indonesia – Inside Indonesia. July-September 2014 
• Indonesia: Kopassus, intelligence, in covert operation to influence election – Allan Nairn. July 5, 2014
• Indonesia: Gap narrows between candidates in Indonesian presidential elections – Max Lane. July 4, 2014
• Indonesia: Prabowo, Part 2 – 'I was the Americans' fair-haired boy' – Allan Nairn. July 1, 2014
• Indonesia: Prabowo, Part 1 – 'Do I have the guts, am I ready to be called a fascist dictator?' – Allan Nairn. June 22, 2014
• Indonesia: Returning to the 1945 Constitution: what does it mean? – New Mandala. June 18, 2014
• Indonesia: Indonesia on the knife's edge – Inside Story. June 17, 2014
• Indonesia: Freedom of information – Inside Indonesia. April-June, 2014
• Thailand: Thai coup leader tightens grip – Asia Times. May 23, 2014
• Thailand: New martial order in Thailand – Asia Times. May 8, 2014
• Indonesia: Wither human rights? – New Mandala. May 8, 2014
• Indonesia: The US and the Indonesian right - A look at anti-democratic pro-capitalist crimes – OpEdNews. May 6, 2014
• Indonesia: The politics of May Day 2014 – Max Lane Online. May 5, 2014
• Indonesia: You should read Indonesia's This Earth of Mankind – Max Lane Online. April 30, 2014
• Indonesia: Indonesia's 2014 legislative elections: The dilemmas of 'elektabilitas' politics – Max Lane. April 23, 2014
• Indonesia: Prabowo and human rights – Inside Indonesia. April-June 2014
• Indonesia: Money politics – Inside Indonesia. April-June 2014
• Indonesia: Revolutionising retail – Inside Indonesia. April-June 2014
• East Timor: Walking Together - Australia's chequered history in Timor-Leste – Right Now. April 1, 2014
• Indonesia: trade unions and the regeneration of radical politics – Marxist Left Review. Summer 2014
• West Papua: Conflict in Indonesia's Papua region – IRIN. March 28, 2014
• East Timor: Bugged - Espionage in East Timor – Right Now. March 24, 2014
• East Timor: Drawing the line – ABC Four Corners. March 18, 2014
• Indonesia: Indonesia's elections of 2014 – Democratic consolidation or reversal? – Asia-Pacific Journal. March 10, 2014
• East Timor: How Australia overplayed its hand in the Timor Sea – The View from LL2. March 10, 2014
• East Timor: The historical context of Australia's political and legal strategy in the Timor Sea – The View from LL2. March 8, 2014
• Indonesia: Defending murder – Inside Indonesia. January-March, 2014
• PNG: Inside Story - Allegations of violence and mismanagement in Australia's offshore processing system – SBS Dateline. March 4, 2014
• East Timor: Transcript – Did the walls have ears? – ABC Radio National. February 26, 2014
• Resisting Democracy: Front Pembela Islam and Indonesia's 2014 Elections – ISEAS Perspectives. February 24, 2014
• India: The Indian women who've had enough – Sydney Morning Herald. February 13, 2014
• Indonesia: How to kill an industry in Indonesia – Asia Times. February 10, 2014
• East Timor: Timor-Leste's media law 'secrecy' lifted, but draconian content revealed – Cafe Pacific. February 7, 2014
• Indonesia: Investigation – 'burned hands' on the high seas – Sydney Morning Herald. February 6, 2014
• Indonesia: Sex, lies and politicians – Inside Indonesia. January-March, 2014
• Thailand: No deal behind Thailand's polls - Asia Times. January 30, 2014
• Aceh: Banda Aceh – where community spirit has gone but peace has lasted - The Guardian. January 27, 2014
• Thailand: Coup calculations in Thailand - Asia Times. January 17, 2014
• West Papua: The human tragedy of West Papua - The Diplomat. January 15, 2014

• Indonesia: Australian spying in Jakarta: Indonesian reactions Part Two - Our Indonesia Today. December 16, 2013
• Thailand: There is no 'crisis of succession' in Thailand - Red Thai Socialist. December 13, 2013
• Indonesia: Australian spying in Jakarta: Indonesian reactions Part One - Our Indonesia Today. December 8, 2013
• Indonesia: A nation of dunces? - Inside Indonesia. October-December, 2013 
• Thailand: The clash to come in Thailand - Asia Times. December 9, 2013
• Thailand: Reactionary instincts of Thai middle class prolong the crisis - Red Thai Socialist. December 8, 2013
• Burma: When mob was Rohingya, Burma's response ruthless - Associated Press. November 25, 2013
• Indonesia: After justice - Inside Indonesia. October-December, 2013 
• Indonesia: Attacks on workers are attacks on democracy – labour activist - Asian Human Rights Commission. November 8, 2013
• Thailand: Back to the streets in Bangkok - Asia Times. November 8, 2013
• Thailand: Same faces, new crisis - The Diplomat. November 6, 2013
• Indonesia: National strike in Indonesia - Politic Rakyat. November 3, 2013
• Japan: Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters - Reuters. October 25, 2013
• Indonesia: Indonesia's new anarchists - Inside Indonesia. July-September, 2013
• Indonesia: 'The Act of Killing' and the consequences of forgetting - Al Jazeera. October 11, 2013
• Cambodia: A whiff of reform in Cambodia - Asia Times. September 30, 2013
• Cambodia: Cambodia returns to a one-party state - The Diplomat . September 30, 2013
• Indonesia: Deadly prison attack renews calls for Indonesian military reform - James Balowski. September 29, 2013
• West Papua: The failure of education in Papua's highlands - Inside Indonesia. July-September, 2013
• Malaysia: Post-election doldrums hit Malaysia - Asia Times. September 19, 2013
• Cambodia: EU under fire for policy linked to land grabbing in Cambodia - Thompson Reuters Foundation. September 18, 2013
• Indonesia: Longing for Suharto - Inside Indonesia. July-September, 2013
• Indonesia: After The Act of the Killing: Indonesia, 1965 – rehabilitating victims, rehabilitating revolution - Max Lane's Blog. September 4, 2013
• Singapore: Shaking off the fear of state censorship, Singapore's youth hold out hope - Irrawaddy. September 4, 2013
• Burma: No SIM City in Burma - Irrawaddy. September 4, 2013
• Burma: Is Burma's 'disconnectivity' deliberate? - Irrawaddy. September 3, 2013
• Burma: Military roots of racism in Myanmar - Asia times. September 3, 2013
• Indonesia: Bali's rice-field irrigation system faces collapse - Asia Sentinel. September 2, 2013
• Indonesia: Caught between two happinesses  - Inside Indonesia. July-September, 2013
• Indonesia: US sparks Indonesia arms sale concern  - Inter Press Service. August 27, 2013
• West Papua: West Papua is Indonesia's Palestine  - Fair Observer. August 24, 2013
• Aceh: Strange bedfellows  - Inside Indonesia. July-September, 2013
• West Papua: As Indonesia threatens Freedom Flotilla, Benny Wenda on independence  - Democracy Now. August 20, 2013
• Japan: Operation Red Hat: Chemical weapons and the Pentagon smokescreen on Okinawa  - Asia-Pacific Journal. August 11, 2013
• West Papua: Women and the fight for peace and freedom in West Papua  - Association for Women's Rights in Development. August 9, 2013
• Thailand: Amnesty and loyalty in Thailand  - Asia Times. August 9, 2013
• Asia-Pacific: Refugees and the ideological imperatives of late capitalism in Australia - Max Lane. August 3, 2013
• East Timor: Timor-Leste and Australia – Moving forward by acknowledging the past - Right Now. August 1, 2013
• India: The poison pill in India's search for cheap food  - Reuters. July 29, 2013
• Cambodia: Poll loosens Hun Sen's grip on Cambodia  - Asia Times. July 29, 2013
• Indonesia: Cashed-up in confinement  - Inside Indonesia. July-September 2013
• Indonesia: Life and death in immigration detention  - Inside Indonesia. July-September 2013
• Indonesia: On the struggle for press freedom  - Inside Indonesia. July-September 2013
• West Papua: Big prison, little prison  - Inside Indonesia. July-September 2013
• Indonesia: Married with children  - Inside Indonesia. April-June 2013
• Burma: British aid for Myanmar ethnic cleansing  - Asia Times. July 19, 2013
• West Papua: The challenge of the MSG delegation visit to Jakarta  - Asia Times. July 17, 2013
• Burma: Tour of shame for Thein Sein  - Asia Times. July 16, 2013
• Malaysia: In crisis, Malaysia plays the royal card  - Asia Times. July 3, 2013
• Burma: State complicity in Myanmar pogroms  - Asia Times. July 1, 2013
• Indonesia: Lunch with Prabowo Subianto - The Financial Times. June 28, 2013
• Burma: Burma government gives official blessing to anti-Muslim monks - Reuters. June 27, 2013
• Burma: Rain for Myanmar's peace parade  - Asia Times. June 26, 2013
• West Papua: Indonesian army opens the way for business in West Papua - Awas MIFEE. June 23, 2013
• West Papua: the MSG's opportunity to begin to right a wrong - Pacific Policy. June 18, 2013
• Indonesia: A victim of enforced disappearance speaks out on government's reluctance to provide remedies - Asian Human Rights Commission. June 4, 2013
• Malaysia: Fears grow for a Malaysian Spring  - Asia Times. May 29, 2013
• West Papua: Review of US State Department 2012 human rights report on West Papua - West Papua Advocacy Team. May 17, 2013
• Malaysia: Political gap narrows in Malaysia  - Asia Times. May 7, 2013
• Malaysia: Malaysia's election: An Indonesian comparison - New Mandala. May 6, 2013
• Indonesia: The urgency of trade union unity - Liberation Newspaper. April 30, 2013
• Indonesia: Review: From the dark side - Inside Indonesia. April-June, 2013
• Indonesia: Reviews: Flipping the national story of 1965 - Inside Indonesia. April-June, 2013
• West Papua: They're taking our children - Sydney Morning Herald. May 4, 2013
• Burma: Conflicted peace prize for Thein Sein  - Asia Times. April 22, 2013
• Indonesia: Review - An act of manipulation? - Inside Indonesia. April-June, 2013
• Indonesia: 'Truth takes a while, justice even longer' - Inside Indonesia. April-June, 2013
• West Papua: Prison Island: Special in-depth report - West Papua Media. April 16, 2013
• Indonesia: Billionaires among thousands of Indonesians found in secret offshore documents  - IJIC. April 9, 2013
• Burma: Land grabbing as big business in Myanmar  - Asia Times. March 8, 2013
• Burma: A well-laid war in Myanmar - Asia Times. February 1, 2013
• Malaysia: Past fraud, new risks in Malaysia - Asia Times. February 1, 2013
• West Papua: Response to call to apply Indonesia's anti-terrorism Law in West Papua - East Timor and Indonesia Action Network. January 31, 2012
• Indonesia: What gives rise to moral outrage? - Inside Indonesia. January-March, 2013
• West Papua: Papuan 'separatists' vs Jihadi 'terrorists': Indonesian policy dilemmas - International Crisis Group. January 22, 2012
• Vietnam: How did the Gates of Hell open in Vietnam? - Asia Times. January 19, 2012
• Malaysia: Rainbow rally lifts opposition in Malaysia - Asia Times. January 14, 2012
• Asia-Pacific: 'So many people died' - Asia Times. January 10, 2012
• Indonesia: Indonesian class struggle, the bosses retaliate  - International Viewpoint. January 7, 2013
• India: Indian gang-rape victim's attackers charged with murder, protesters push for broader women's rights  - Democracy Now. January 6, 2013

• Burma: More war than peace in Myanmar - Asia Times. December 17, 2012
• Singapore: Migrants' woes on display in Singapore - Asia Times. December 13, 2012
• Indonesia: Wahhabi war waged on Indonesia's Shi'ites - Asia Times. December 7, 2012
• West Papua: A history of the Morning Star Flag of West Papua - West Papua Media. December 1, 2012
• Asia-Pacific: Australian imperialism in the 'Asian Century' - International Viewpoint. November 14, 2012
• Burma: World Bank returns to Myanmar - Inter Press Service. November 5, 2012
• Asia-Pacific: Siding with France in the Pacific (part 2) - New Matilda. October 26, 2012
• Asia-Pacific: The diplomacy of decolonisation (part 1)  - New Matilda. October 24, 2012
• Indonesia: Indonesia put to test - Asia Times. October 20, 2012
• Indonesia: Mixing Marx and Indonesia - Asia Times. October 20, 2012
• Indonesia: October 3 National Strike: Indonesia's political terrain changing - Max Lane. October 14, 2012
• East Timor: Taxing times in Timor - Four Corners. October 1, 2012
• Indonesia: National strike called in Indonesia for October 3 - Max Lane. September 27, 2012
• Indonesia: A new wave of workers struggles in Indonesia - Zely Ariane. September 13, 2012
• Pakistan: Fundamentalism, a challenge for the left - Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres. September 8, 2012
• Thailand: The festering sore – Thai state crimes go unpunished - Red Thai Socialist. September 2, 2012
• West Papua: Obamacopters give West Papuans another reason to worry - Truthout. August 29, 2012
• Vietnam: Agent Orange - The legacy of the Vietnam War - Chestertown Spy. August 28, 2012
• Burma: Rocky road to World Bank re-engagement - Inter Press Service. August 21, 2012
• Vietnam: Strategic US clean-up in Vietnam - Asia Times. August 9, 2012
• West Papua: MIFEE = The stealthy face of conflict in West Papua - Asian Human Rights Commission. July 19, 2012
• East Timor: East Timor's stolen children - Global Post. July 8, 2012
• Thailand: Betrayal in Thailand as 'reconciliation' protects status quo - Giles Ji Ungpakorn. June 30, 2012
• Indonesia: Cracks emerge in Yudhoyono's facade - Asia Times. June 13, 2012
• Aceh: Credits lost in tangle of Aceh's forest - Sydney Morning Herald. June 8, 2012
• Vietnam: Reversing the Vietnam war verdict - Activist Newsletter. June 7, 2012
• Burma: A capitalist class emerges in Myanmar - Asia Times. May 16, 2012
• East Timor: Consolidating democracy - The Dili Weekly. May 9, 2012
• Malaysia: Reform storm gathers in Malaysia - Asia Times. April 27, 2012
• East Timor: Nationalism and nostalgia win in Timor Leste - Asia Times. April 26, 2012
• East Timor: Notes on the 2012 presidential elections - Max Lane. April 20, 2012
• East Timor: Death by deprivation in East Timor 1975-1980 - World Peace Foundation. April 17, 2012
• Cambodia: Failing justice, protests and violence - Asia Times. April 5, 2012
• PNG: Where women fear to tread - Sydney Morning Herald. March 27, 2012
• East Timor: Brothers in electoral arms in East Timor - Asia Times. March 26, 2012
• East Timor: East Timor's road: To riches or ruin? - Global Mail. March 19, 2012
• Indonesia: International Women's Day in Indonesia - A struggle for liberation - Zely Ariane. March 6, 2012
• East Timor: Francisco Xavier do Amaral: First President of East Timor, politician and elder statesman - Deaken Speaking. March 7, 2012
• East Timor: Presidential elections in Timor-Leste: What's at stake? - Inside Story. March 4, 2012
• Aceh: Politics lead former GAM guerrillas to part ways - Jakarta Post. February 28, 2012
• Aceh: Jakarta's homework and maintaining trust in Aceh - Jakarta Post. February 27, 2012
• Aceh: Unfinished reconciliation haunts Acehnese - Jakarta Post. February 27, 2012
• Burma: Myanmar military in the money - Asia Times. February 27, 2012
• Indonesia: Secular revenge in Indonesia - Asia Times. February 24, 2012
• East Timor: Who really invaded East Timor in World War II? - Clinton Fernandes. February 19, 2012
• Burma: Precarious balance for Myanmar reform - Asia Times. February 15, 2012
• East Timor: Possible electoral outcomes - Deaken Speaking. February 6, 2012
• Burma: Lest we forget in Myanmar - Asia Times. February 3, 2012
• Burma: Premature rush for Myanmar riches - Asia Times. January 30, 2012
• Indonesia: New York Times continues to conceal US role in 1965 Indonesia coup - Foreign Policy in Focus. January 23, 2012
• PNG: Borderless instability in New Guinea - Asia Times. January 13, 2012
• Indonesia: Indonesia loses its bragging rights - Foreign Policy Magazine. January 12, 2012
• Malaysia: Anwar verdict resets Malaysian politics - Asia Times. January 11, 2012
• Burma: A decommissioned inquiry on Myanmar - Asia Times. January 9, 2012
• East Timor: A former colony mulls the politics of teaching Portuguese - Time Magazine. January 4, 2012

• Thailand: Royal contradictions in Thailand - Asia Times. December 12, 2011
• Malyasia: Political motivations easy to find in the dubious case against Anwar Ibrahim - Jakarta Globe. December 10, 2011
• Burma: US gambles on Myanmar reform - Asia Times. December 3, 2011
• Thailand: After the flood in Thailand - Asia Times. December 3, 2011
• Malaysia: Najib thinks twice on reform - Asia Times. December 3, 2011
• West Papua: December 1, 1961: Fly the flag of independence - West Papua and the Indonesian Empire - Open Democracy. November 30, 2011
• West Papua: West Papuan leader urges peaceful defiance in the lead-up to December 1st - West Papua Media Alerts. November 30, 2011
• West Papua: Is a US mining company funding a violent crackdown in Indonesia? - The Atlantic. November 29, 2011
• Cambodia: From tragedy to sham in Cambodia - Asia Times. November 19, 2011
• Burma: More daylight between China and Burma - Asia Sentinel. November 18, 2011
• Burma: The good, bad and ugly in Myanmar - Asia Times. November 8, 2011
• Thailand: Hell and high water in Thailand - Asia Times. November 2, 2011
• West Papua: Freeport strike mines a political jungle - Asia Times. November 2, 2011 
• Malaysia: Sex, lies and Malaysian politics: A nation's fascination with titillation - Asia Sentinel. October 29, 2011
• Burma: The eye of the storm - Irrawaddy. October 7, 2011
• Indonesia: Buying the right to snap up arms contracts - Jakarta Post. October 6, 2011
• Indonesia: Lengthy, costly arms deals put TNI firepower at risk - Jakarta Post. October 6, 2011
• Indonesia: Buying the right to snap up arms contracts - Jakarta Post. October 6, 2011
• Indonesia: Defense industries: Waking up the slumbering giants - Jakarta Post. October 5, 2011
• Burma: What Thein Sein promised Suu Kyi - Asia Times. September 29, 2011
• Indonesia: Church bomb shows Indonesian extremism - Asia Times. September 28, 2011
• Thailand: Thaksin tests Thailand's deal - Asia Times. September 22, 2011
• Cambodia: Cambodian NGOs under the gun - Asia Times. September 19, 2011
• Indonesia: Religious violence - The reluctance of reporters to tell the story - Nienman Reports. September 2011
• Indonesia: Fading hope of bureaucratic reform - Jakarta Globe. September 15, 2011
• West Papua: The blacklisting of Rio Tinto - Aljazeera. September 12, 2011
• Vietnam: Agent of death - Front Line - September 10-23, 2011
• West Papua: Special investigation = State terror campaign around Jayapura - West Papua Media Alerts. September 9, 2011
• Burma: Toys for the boys in Myanmar - Asia Times. September 6, 2011
• Singapore: Singapore votes for stability - Asia Times. September 1, 2011
• East Timor: Timor's oil: Blessing or curse? - Asia Times. August 31, 2011
• Burma: Slippery path to legitimacy - Asia Times. August 31, 2011
• East Timor: Timor's oil: Blessing or curse? - Asia Times. August 31, 2011
• Burma: Slippery path to legitimacy - Asia Times. August 31, 2011
• Malaysia: Knives out for Malaysia's Najib - Asia Times. August 18, 2011
• Thailand: Yingluck and the generals - Asia Times. August 17, 2011
• Indonesia: Politicians plundering public funds to keep their parties going - Jakarta Post. August 15, 2011
• Indonesia: The high cost of maintaining support - Jakarta Post. August 15, 2011
• West Papua: Strike pressures PT Freeport Indonesia into serious negotiations - Open Democracy. August 11, 2011
• Indonesia: A year on, bureaucracy thwarting counterterrorism - Jakarta Post. August 5, 2011
• Malaysia: More fuel for Malaysia's fire - Asia Times. July 27, 2011
• Malaysia: Government replays old gramophone over PSM 6 - Malaysia Kini. July 27, 2011
• Indonesia: Bulog's charm lured many into fee-seeking business - Jakarta Post. July 27, 2011
• Indonesia: Lost in the field - Political interests blocking agriculture development - Jakarta Post. July 26, 2011
• Malaysia: Struggle for democracy intensifies - South Asia Analysis Group. July 26, 2011
• Indonesia: Fragmenting political landscape will eventually affect economy - Jakarta Post. July 26, 2011
• Thailand: No democratic hope for south Thailand - Asia Times. July 22, 2011
• Malaysia: Malaysia nips an hibiscus uprising - Asia Times. July 11, 2011
• Indonesia: How much of the raging fire will the Dems put out? - Asia Times. July 8, 2011
• Thailand: Changing of the guard in Thailand - Asia Times. July 6, 2011
• West Papua: Chipping away at paradise - Sydney Morning Herald. July 2, 2011
• Thailand: The deal behind Thailand's polls - Asia Times. June 30, 2011
• Burma: Myanmar tilts towards civil war - Asia Times. June 29, 2011
• Malaysia: Malaysian politics take to the streets - Asia Times. June 24, 2011
• India: India health costs a crisis impoverishing millions - Associated Press. June 5, 2011
• Indonesia: Rape of Kalimantan's forests continues - Asia Sentinel. June 4, 2011
• Thailand: No peace through polls - Asia Times. May 27, 2011
• Malasysia: Welcome to Malaysia - The lives of refugee in Malaysia - SBY Dateline. May 22, 2011
• India: Destroyed slum echoes Indian history, economic gap - Associated Press. May 22, 2011
• West Papua: Violence against indigenous women - Cultural Survival. Spring 2011 
• Indonesia: The beef conspiracy - Jakarta Globe. May 9, 2011
• Paksistan: Feelings of revenge will not end with Osama's death - Labour Party Pakistan. May 7, 2011
• West Papua: Filep Karma and the fight for Papua's future - Inside Story. May 5, 2011
• Indonesia: Murky men behind the violence - Jakarta Globe. May 3, 2011
• Indonesia: Is dislike of SBY driving military old guard to hard-liners? - Jakarta Globe. May 2, 2011
• Japan: Ties bind Japan nuke sector, regulators - Associated Press. May 2, 2011
• India: A minimum wage of Rupees 15000 for eight hours a day - Labour Party Pakistan. May 1, 2011
• Indonesia: Secret report reveals how BIN misread threat to Ahmadiyah - Jakarta Globe. April 30, 2011
• East Timor: Cuba shows way with health aid in East Timor - Canberra Times. April 29, 2011
• Indonesia: Land acquisition bill a silver bullet? - Jakarta Globe. April 26, 2011
• East Timor: The land that Indonesia lost - Jakarta Globe. April 25, 2011
• Indonesia: Indonesia's infrastructure problems: A legacy from Dutch colonialism - Jakarta Globe. April 25, 2011
• Indonesia: Eyes on spies in Indonesia - Asia Times. April 16, 2011
• East Timor: What we really knew about East Timor - Clinton Fernandes, New Matilda. April 14, 2011
• Indonesia: Dynasties in the making - Jakarta Post. April 13, 2011
• Indonesia: Indonesian government blamed for stoking radicalism, religious violence - James Balowski. April 2011
• Indonesia: Deciphering the influence of PKS puppet-master Hilmi - Jakarta Post. March 29, 2011
• Indonesia: Bad apples see Islamic PKS veer off course - Jakarta Post. March 28, 2011
• Indonesia: Intel services - security assets or abusers? - Jakarta Post. March 15, 2011
• Indonesia: Despite bill, BIN may stay 'political pet' - Jakarta Post. March 15, 2011
• Indonesia: Indonesia's looming AIDS crisis - The Diplomat (Tokyo). February 3, 2011
• Indonesia: Indonesia as beacon for Egypt - Asia Times. February 2, 2011

• Indonesia: Documents leak from notorious US-backed unit as Obama lands in Indonesia - Common Dreams. November 10, 2010
• Indonesia: US restores military ties with Indonesia's Kopassus killers - Direct Action. September 2010
• Indonesia: NZ aid fosters impunity, status quo by Indonesian security forces - New Zealand International Review. September-October 2010
• Indonesia: The politics of the poor - Socialism in Indonesia - International Viewpoint. June, 2010
• Thailand: A point of no return - Asia Left Observer. May 17, 2010
• Indonesia: People's Democratic Party relaunched as 'open, mass-based cadre party' - Links/Green Left Weekly. March 11, 2010
• Pakistan: Reporting the 'war on terror' - Labour Party Pakistan. February 20, 2010
• Pakistan: Labour Party Pakistan congress advance the revolutionary process - International Viewpoint. February, 2010

• Pakistan: Difficulties in building alternative civic movements on war and war memory - Labour Party Pakistan. November 26, 2009
• Indonesia: Unity of the Indonesian revolutionary movement is urgent - IndoPROGRESS. November 1, 2009
• Pakistan: What to do about religious fundamentalism? - Labour Party Pakistan. October 28, 2009
• East Timor: Howard's new lies on East Timor - Jon Lamb. October 2009
• Indonesia: 'Oppositionists' seek cabinet posts - Max Lane. October 2009
• Indonesia: Significant election year - International Viewpoint. October, 2009
• East Timor: Was the general really there? - Clinton Fernandes, New Matlida.  August 12, 2009
• Indonesia: Anti-neoliberal demagogy fails to enliven Indonesian election - Max Lane. July 2009
• Indonesia: Little voter enthusiasm for Indonesian presidential candidates - Max Lane. June 2009
• Indonesia: Indonesian elections put militarists into the game - Max Lane. May 2009
• Pakistan: Swat, military operation and the rise of religious fundamentalism - Labour Party Pakistan. May 15, 2009
• Pakistan: Pakistan in turmoil - Interview with Farooq Tariq - CounterPunch. March 21, 2009
• Indonesia: Max Lane: It's a cult of personality among candidates who have no personality - Tempo Magazine. February 17-23, 2009
• Indonesia: Notes on presidential politics in the upcoming Indonesian elections - By Max Lane. January 12, 2009
• Nepal: Interview with Nepal's Maoist finance minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai - Kantipuron. January 11, 2009
• Indonesia: The basis for a national leadership crisis - By Max Lane. January 7, 2009
• East Timor: The left and UN military intervention in East Timor - Links Magazine. January-April 2000

• Nepal: New political line is inclusive: Kiran - The Rising Nepal. December 31, 2008
• Pakistan: The first nine month of Pakistan Peoples Party rule - By Farooq Tariq. December 22, 2008
• Nepal: The Nepalese Revolution and the differences of opinion within our party - Netra Bikram Chand 'Biplap'. November 25, 2008
• Indonesia: The 2009 general elections and illusions within the movement - By Budi Wardoyo. September 10, 2008
• Indonesia: Southeast Asia & International Affairs Update - 2009 Indonesian elections: Reflections 1 - Max Lane. September 8, 2008
• Indonesia: Women’s liberation through the elite political parties, impossible! - Interview with Vivi Widyawati. July 17, 2008
• Indonesia: New left activist alliance formed in Indonesia - Max Lane. May 14, 2008
• Indonesia: New left collaboration in Indonesia - Max Lane. May 2008
• Indoonesia: 10 Years after the Fall of Suharto – Views from the People’s Organisations - Journal of Unity - May 2008
• Indonesia: Compilation of reports on May Day demonstrations in Indonesia - Detik.com/Jakarta Post/Tempo Interactive. May 1-3, 2008
• Indonesia: Reject parliamentarism and opportunism - By Sam King. February 2008
• Indonesia: The struggle for a political alternative of the poor - By Sam King. February 2008
• Indonesia: Our Stance - Political Committee of the Poor. January, 2008

• Indonesia: How the West backed the massacre of a million people - Green Left Weekly. October 12, 2005
• Indonesia: Broad left party forms - International Viewpoint. October 2006
• Indonesia: Justice for Munir! - International Viewpoint. July-August 2005
• Indonesia: Permanent emergency in Aceh - International Viewpoint. November 2002

• East Timor: Defeat or victory for the left? - Green Left Weekly. November 17, 1999
• East Timor: 'Left-wing' dogmatism and the East Timor crisis - Green Left Weekly. September 15, 1999
• Indonesia: Mass politics and political change in Indonesia - By Max Lane, December 1998
• Indonesia: Interview with Indonesian activist Muhammad Ma'ruf - In Defence of Marxism. July 1, 1998
• Indonesia: The rise of a young working class (eyewitness report) - Socialist Appeal, July 1998
• Indonesia: Military intervention in labour disputes - Asian Food Worker 28. April-September 1998
• Indonesia: Book excerpt: Breaking the news on Bre-X - Globe and Mail, August 28, 1997
• Indonesia: The 1997 general elections in Indonesia - A briefing paper by Tapol, April 1997
• Indonesia: The Indonesian Communist Party: lessons from a defeat - Green Left Weekly. October 2, 1996
• The 'prickly' relationship between Australia and Indonesia - Sydney Morning Herald. September 19, 1995
• Indonesia: The Indonesian progressive movement: An updat - Links Magazine. January-March 1995
• Indonesia: Winning democracy in Indonesia - Links Magazine. July-September, 1994
• Indonesia: CIA tie asserted in Indonesia purge - New York Times. July 12, 1990
• Indonesia: Ex-agents say CIA compiled death lists for Indonesians - The Examiner. May 20, 1990