More workers are taking action in Indonesia as anger with the government's policies and economic problems grows, reports Leon Reiza Read more...
Leon Reiza reports on the growing threat of religious violence in Indonesia Read more...
Indonesia telah diperkirakan pada tahun 1950 untuk menjadi negara terkaya kelima di dunia dalam sumber daya alam, dan sudah lama menjadi target dari tekanan oleh imperialisme AS untuk menguasai kekayaan alam dan untuk memenangkan penguasa untuk menjadi bagian dari aliansi antikomunis di seluruh dunia yang didirikan Washington. (Washington’s worldwide anticommunist alliance) Ini adalah era serangkaian kudeta militer untuk menghasilkan “perubahan rezim” di negara-negara semi kolonial seperti Mossadegh di Iran telah diisolasi pada tahun 1953, Arbenz di Guatemala tahun 1954. Read more...
Recent news has emerged from Indonesia that points to a series of political murders carried out by the Indonesian army (TNI) in 2009. Read more...
Recent mass protests in Indonesia against the government's bank bailout policy show the extent of the crisis in the country Read more...
Leon Reiza from Indonesia reports on the recent elections and what workers will get out of them Read more...
Last year a new party was launched in Indonesia, the Party for national liberation and unity, or PAPERNAS. In this article Gunnar W makes a Marxist critique of the reformist limitations of its programme and outlines how Indonesian workers and youth need a revolutionary strategy. Read more...
On Sunday the 4th of March the East Java regional conference of the Indonesian National Liberation Party of Unity, or PAPERNAS, was viciously attacked by the right wing and anti-communist FAKI militia (Front Anti Komunis Indonesia). About a hundred FAKI thugs, wielding knives, fought their way into the conference venue, where PAPERNAS activists fought to defend themselves and their conference. PAPERNAS activists sent out urgent appeals for solidarity from inside the venue. Among them where Dita Sari, a famous trade union organiser and the PAPERNAS candidate for presidential elections in 2009. Read more...
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