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  • Coexistence Not Co-Destruction: Remembering Bandung 70 Years On

    Coexistence Not Co-Destruction: Remembering Bandung 70 Years On

    Image credit: Dossier no. 87 ‘The Bandung Spirit’, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, 2025. Seventy years ago this month, leaders of twenty-nine newly or nearly independent Asian and African nations inaugurated the historic Bandung Conference, embarking on the ‘Freedom Walk’ along Asia-Africa Road to the conference’s Freedom Building (Gedung Merdeka) in Bandung, Indonesia. As a […]

  • Flexible and Sly: Indonesian Defence Policy, Russia, and Australian Anxiety

    Island states tend to be anxious political entities. Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting penetration is never far. Threats of such unwanted intrusion are embellished and magnified. In the case of Australia, these have varied from straying Indonesian fishermen who are seen as terrors of border security, to the […]

  • Demand for EVs Drives Destruction of Uncontacted People

    Two uncontacted Hongana Manyawa men warn bulldozer operators to stay off their territory. Multiple similar videos prove unequivocally the presence of uncontacted Hongana Manyawa people in and around the nickel mining areas. ©Anon A new report by Survival International has revealed that demand for electric vehicles is destroying uncontacted people’s lives and lands in Indonesia. […]

  • Our Revolutions Are for the Survival and Development of Human Civilisation

    Mereka Yang Terusir Dari Tanahnya (Those Chased Away from Their Land), 1960. Credit: Amrus Natalsya, a member of the Indonesian revolutionary cultural organisation Lekra. Next year is the seventieth anniversary of the Asian-African Conference held in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955 and attended by heads of government and state from twenty-nine African and Asian countries. Indonesia’s […]

  • Beyond Irritation: Bali’s Tourism Scourge

    Like eager lice on a ripe scalp, tourists have become a much-reviled feature of various economies.  While cash and contributions come in their wake, such an industry depletes, drains and pollutes the very site it idealises.  International tourism does its bit to bloat global greenhouse gas emissions, with transportation constituting the lion’s share.  All this […]

  • Indonesian Senate Leader: Protect Uncontacted Tribe from Nickel Mining

    In recent footage, two uncontacted Hongana Manyawa men warned bulldozer operators to stay off their territory. © Anon One of the most senior politicians in Indonesia has said the government should protect an uncontacted tribe whose territory is being destroyed for the world’s largest nickel mine. Senate Leader AA LaNyalla Mahmud Mattalitti, a close ally […]

  • Indonesia: New “Catastrophic” Footage Shows Uncontacted Tribe Near Nickel Mine

    Uncontacted Hongana Manyawa warn logging company workers to stay out of their territory. © Social media Dramatic new video has emerged showing members of an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in Indonesia warning outsiders to stay away, just a few meters from bulldozers destroying their forest. Campaigners have warned that it shows a human rights catastrophe is […]

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