The Guardian • Indonesia
Issue #2187
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRAZIL: Brazilian union headquarters called on citizens to take part in the Workers’ March in the capital Brasilia. The mobilisation followed the Workers’ Conference which...
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Issue #2161
11 September – Remembering the coup
The 11 September 1973 Chilean coup had more far-reaching and sinister repercussions than it first appears. The Chilean coup was based on the Jakarta method...
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Issue #2129
GLOBAL BRIEFS
VENEZUELA: The International Anti-fascist World Festival took place in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. The 2,000 delegates from 125 countries called for consolidation of international...
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Issue #2189
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: Presently the United States has more than 36,000 troops stationed in Germany. It had planned for some time to reduce the number by withdrawing...
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Issue #2002
West Papuans escalate their fight for justice
In 1962 the “New York Agreement” signed at the United Nations led to the notorious Act of Free Choice that took place in West Papua...
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Issue #2158
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UK: London’s Metropolitan Police have arrested nearly 500 people protesting in support of the Palestine Action group, which was prescribed a terrorist organisation by the...
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Issue #2038
Protest for resettlement
Hundreds of mostly Afghan refugees protested last week in Jakarta calling for resettlement and for basic support while they are stranded in Indonesia. The protest...
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Issue #2204
GLOBAL BRIEFS
INDONESIA: China and Indonesia have agreed to deepen their military cooperation while broadening ties in technology, minerals, energy, and other strategic sectors, as both countries...
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Issue #2178
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PALESTINE: The Foreign Press Association expressed disappointment after Israel’s Supreme court postponed a ruling on a petition seeking free media access to Gaza. Journalists have...
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Issue #2140
The Jakarta Method – recipe for mass murder
The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, by Vincent Bevins In the 1960s the CIA set up...
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Issue #2122
GLOBAL BRIEFS
EGYPT: Egypt has been certified as malaria free by the World Health Organisation (WHO). “Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilisation itself, but the disease...
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Issue #2053
GLOBAL BRIEFS
INDIA: The Indian state of Karnataka held the most crucial state election before parliamentary elections due in 2024. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suffered...
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Issue #2092
Serious revelations at South Australian West Papua meeting
The recent Australia West Papua Association of South Australia (AWP SA) annual general meeting heard about the infamous 1969 “act of free choice” which ultimately...
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Issue #2059
Stranded in poverty
Hundreds of refugees, mostly Afghan and Sudanese, staged protests on World Refugee Day on 20th June in cities across Indonesia to demand resettlement after years...
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Issue #2130
LETTERS
West Papua: The Jakarta method Before the US – especially the CIA – meddled in the situation, the Dutch government had started to give the...
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Issue #2146
West Papua calling
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua provisional government interim president Benny Wenda warns that since Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto took office last October his...
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Issue #2154
BRICS: Multipolar reality
BRICS is the heir to the Non-Aligned Movement,” declared Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the economic alliance’s 17th annual summit, held July...
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Issue #2188
GREEN NOTES
The Indonesian province of West Papua, the western half of New Guinea, is a classic example of Marxist dependency theory, in which the region occupies...
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Issue #2091
Deputy sheriff fails to deliver
The four-day ASEAN-Australia Special Summit held in Melbourne from 4 - 6 March, ended with the Australian government failing to gain consensus around its aggressive stand towards...
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Issue #2126
Militarisation of West Papua
On Australia’s doorstep we have a situation very similar to what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank of Palestine. The new Indonesian President...
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Issue #2154
EDITORIAL
Vietnam is joining BRICS as a partner country. Some questions you may have include: • joining what? • which means what exactly? • why should...
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