Jeremy Scahill: Holbrooke backed Indonesian genocide in East Timor, killing of journos in Serbia and supported 2003 Iraq invasion. Johann Hari: I’m more inclined to grieve for victims of Indonesian genocide in East Timor than Richard Holbrooke, who armed & supported that genocide. Read this.
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What’s hundreds of thousands dead to a Murdoch columnist?
Earlier this week we were reminded of the Australian Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan years ago dismissing the Burmese “dissident” Aung San Suu Kyi. Sheridan is back at it today (thanks to Scott Burchill): For nearly 20 years, good hearted Indonesians have been telling the Burmese to study the New Order regime that prevailed in Indonesia…
When an Indonesian started talking to a Westerner
Inspiration, provocations, discussions and politics all meld here at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. Take a look here, here and here. Perhaps the most encouraging part of the events in Bali is the involvement of local writers and participants. If the West and East melded a little more, the world would be in a…
My writing thoughts here in Indonesia
This was filmed yesterday in Bali at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival:
On my way to Indonesia
For the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali. I’m invited again this year (after an amazing 2009 Indonesian book tour) and look forward to discussing politics, prose, passion and power. More very soon.
Don’t wear tight pants and be a good Muslim
Last year I visited the Indonesian province of Aceh and discovered a Muslim area though one with surprisingly liberal attitudes (in some parts, anyway). So this news, under the headline, “Tight Pants Ban Takes Effect in Indonesia’s Aceh“, is a little sad: Authorities in a devoutly Islamic district of Indonesia’s Aceh province have distributed 20,000…
Australia’s responsibility to asylum seekers
The following statement was released today by refugee activists from Australia, Canada and Indonesia: “The Merak refugees and the Indonesian Solution, not people smuggling, should be at the top of the agenda for discussions between the Australian government and Indonesian… President Yudhoyono,” said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition. “The Australian government is…