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Indonesia Indonesia 07 Oktober 2008  

 

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International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: Eliminating the Culture of Torture

Ricky Gunawan

IIt has been ten years after Indonesia ratified the Convention against Torture.  But in fact, the security forces are still torturing detainees.   

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The Madi’s Death and the Confusion Left Behind

AJ Susmana

MADI a.k.a Arifin, the leader of a religious sect which was alleged heretical by the Indonesian Ulama Council since October 2005, was finally shot dead by the state apparatus on Sunday April 6, 2008, by the troops of the Special Anti Terrorist Detachment 88 and the Fast Reaction Police

Breaking through Poverty, Paving the Way for a People’s Economy

Erwin Novianto

Poverty is not caused by poor people

Poverty is caused by the system we built and the policies we pursue

We did something wrong and poverty exist

We have to do right and poverty will disappear

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A Reflection on Ten Years after the Kidnapping of Activists

We Will Never Forget

Mugiyanto

Today exactly ten years ago, on March 13, 1998, several hordes of the coercive New Order apparatus slithered from one region to the next towards the densely populated area of Jakarta.  They intended to arrest "dangerous" people who their leader considered to have the potential to cause the authoritarian

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