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From Cambodia to Bangladesh: a brief history of Henry Kissinger’s alleged war crimes

Henry Kissinger sided with military dictators and genocidal regimes in his pursuit of projecting US power during the Cold War, resulting in the deaths of millions of innocents, Bevan Hurley reports

The Independent UK

Kissinger was the definition of impunity

Can a war criminal really be a “noted statesman”?

Salon

Henry Kissinger: 10 conflicts, countries that define a blood-stained legacy

The master of cold realpolitik left a legacy of destruction that is still playing out across the world.

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Kissinger, Giant Of Statecraft, Molded Post-war US History

Brilliant, abrasive and ruthlessly ambitious, Henry Kissinger towered over post-World War II US foreign policy like no one else and shaped a fateful new course for the world's relationship with China.

International Business Times

The professor, the general and the populist: meet the three candidates running for president in Indonesia

In just over two months, Indonesia will hold one of the biggest one-day elections anywhere on Earth. More than 200 million eligible voters will take part across Indonesia’s 6,000 inhabited islands – along with 1.75 million people in the diaspora – to elect a new president, vice president and members…

The Conversation

TCUS senior editor Kalpana Jain explores Indigenous communities in Indonesia − and learns about their struggles to reclaim land

Kalpana Jain, senior religion and ethics editor at The Conversation, spent part of 2023 on a trip spanning over 20,000 miles, covering seven cities in three countries, as an East-West Center 2023 Senior Journalists Fellow to pursue issues around the role of religion and identity in the public sphere. On…

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Indonesia top court rejects presidential age limit, clearing legal path for 72-year-old frontrunner

Indonesia’s top court rejected an effort to block presidential candidates who are over 70 or implicated in human rights abuses, clearing the legal path for a septuagenarian former general’s ultra-nationalist campaign

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A classical espionage novel with shades of Le Carré, The Idealist explores the tumultuous path to East Timorese independence

The Idealist is the eighth novel by respected Australian writer and academic Nick Jose. Set in the turbulent period leading up to the referendum for East Timorese self-determination in 1999, the novel has the form of a political thriller, albeit one that remains restrained and meditative.

The Conversation

Kissinger at 100: Still a war criminal

His reputation as a brilliant statesman is still intact — because the mainstream media avoids his real legacy

Salon

Victims of Indonesia's 1998 violence continue to fight for justice 25 years on

The tumultuous end of Indonesian strongman Suharto's 32-year regime in 1998 was punctuated by widespread riots with mobs targeting ethnic Chinese and a deadly crackdown on student protests. Twenty-five years on, the victims and their families are still fighting for justice.

ABC News

How Jakarta has dug itself into a hole

Deep groundwater extraction wells are built by the business elites for commercial value. Better transparency will help manage them more sustainably.

360info

Surprise delay to Indonesia elections labelled unconstitutional

A Jakarta court ruled that elections set for 2024 cannot take place until at least 2025 but the constitution disagrees.

Al Jazeera

One propaganda film has haunted Indonesia

History recorded mass killings in Indonesia in 1965. One particular anti-communist film haunted Indonesians for years afterward.

360info

Gautam Adani, Narendra Modi and India’s new brand of capitalism

He may be in a spot of bother, but the ties that bind the influential businessman and the prime minister are strong — and beneficial to both.

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The NZ pilot held hostage in West Papua is the pawn in a conflict only real international engagement can resolve

“Phil Mehrtens is the nicest guy, he genuinely is – no one ever had anything bad to say about him”, says a colleague of the New Zealand pilot taken hostage this week by members of the West Papuan Liberation Army (TPN-PB) in the mountainous Nduga Regency.

Bangkok Post

Indonesia tells Myanmar to let ‘qualified people’ take charge

DAVOS, Switzerland: An Indonesian senior minister has urged Myanmar’s military to consider stepping back and letting “qualified” leaders govern the country that is in an economic free-fall due to sanctions and worsening civil strife.

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Widodo’s regret for historic atrocities of little value while armed forces act with impunity

The Indonesian president says he will ensure compensation for victims of human rights abuses, but was silent on prosecution.

AFP

Indonesia president says regrets past rights abuses in country

Jakarta (AFP) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday expressed regret over mass human rights violations committed in the country's past, including a violent anti-communist purge in the 1960s and the disappearance of student protesters in the late 1990s.

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Indonesia president says "strongly regrets" past rights violations in country

Indonesian President Joko Widodo acknowledged on Wednesday a series of incidents amounting to "gross human rights violations" had taken place in his country's past, including the bloodshed and arrests that took place in 1965 and 1966.

Bangkok Post

Indonesia's Asean chair faces challenges

Over the course of 25 years of democratic transformation that followed the Suharto era, whenever Indonesia served as the Asean chair, new ideas and plans seemed to mushroom.

Bangkok Post

Honour models for democracy

Since the 1998 ouster of the dictator Suharto -- who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for over three decades -- the world's fourth most populous nation has undergone a series of rapid changes. Once dependent on foreign aid to exercise its basic functions, Indonesia has firmly established itself as…

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Indonesia’s New Criminal Code Turns Representatives Into Rulers

Activists say provisions in the code smack of the Sukarno-era Anti-Subversion Law, a vaguely-worded statute that was used to great effect by the Suharto regime to repress and intimidate dissidents.

The Conversation

How former political prisoners of Indonesia's 1965 mass killings grapple with memories of their bloody past

What does it mean to have knowledge about a violent historical event that, for the most part, has never made it into national history books?

360info

Special report: Militarisation of police

Tanks and assault rifles are just the most obvious aspects. The increasingly militarised approach to policing runs far deeper

360info

Police a missing passenger in Indonesia’s reform train

Indonesia’s constitution separated the military from civilian politics after the fall of Suharto in 1998. But the police didn’t get the memo.

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