The word itself needs rescuing,’ Mutiara told me. What is so often dismissed as trivial, unpleasant encounters, through ...

Their author, a German-born Catholic priest, had already recorded in his preface that a crowd burned his Marx book back in 2001. He was furious. He had written it, he explained, precisely to refute ...

With one of the highest smoking prevalence rates in the world, the challenge issued to Indonesia on World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is becoming increasingly urgent. Observed on 31 May, WNTD offers a ...

On the centenary of Daoed Joesoef’s birth, we might reflect on what is possible when education and culture become projects of the state On 7 May 1982, an ANTARA photographer recorded Daoed Joesoef ...

Indonesia occupied Timor Leste (formerly East Timor) from 1975 to 1999. In 1999, 79 percent of nearly half a million voters rejected autonomy within Indonesia—meaning the people of East Timor voted ...

In this edition we pay tribute to Pat Walsh, one of the co-founders of this magazine and for over four decades a mentor to countless writers and editors. From our very first edition in November 1983, ...

A chapter from Pat's book of essays 'Stormy with a Chance of Fried Rice' Nur sells snacks on an elevated pedestrian walkway that spans a six lane highway in south Jakarta called Jalan Arteri by taxis.

wedged into the corner space of your desk, between the filing cabinet and the back wall. Their spirals always got tangled. Generous in numbers of pages they were but very constrained in the page size ...

Then it hit me. No, none of these. It was him in extremis. this 24/7 oasis of mercy and magic. Looking down not in anger but in sorrow at the violent and unjust world that violated him and all ...

I think we met in the mid-1980s at a party, not long after I moved from Sydney – maybe at an Inside Indonesia gathering or a party. Pat Walsh was an activist, a writer, a friend and a poet. He loved ...

Pat on his way to address a major policy meeting of the National Council of Timorese Re-sistance (CNRT), Dili, 2000/ Pat Walsh archives Statement by His Excellency Jose Ramos Horta, President of the ...