Rebecca Meckelburg looks at the growing discontent that led to聽mass protests across Indonesia.
Joko Widodo
Peter Boyle聽speaks to Indonesian socialist聽Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana聽about the disturbing return to the former Suharto dictatorship era鈥檚 notorious 鈥渄ual function鈥 policy for the military.
When Indonesia鈥檚 new president Prabowo Subianto announced his cabinet, a number of former activists and leaders of the People鈥檚 Democratic Party (PRD) were among its 109 members. 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Peter Boyle spoke to Rudi Hartono, former editor of the PRD鈥檚 publication Berdikari, about this development.
麻豆传媒's Peter Boyle spoke to Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana from聽Indonesia's Perserikatan Sosialis (Socialist Union), one of the left groups protesting former Suharto-era general Prabowo Subianto, who was sworn in as Indonesia's new president on October 20.
Rebecca Meckelburg looks at the factors driving the result of Indonesia's recent presidential election.
In West Papua, human right abuses at the hands of the Indonesian military continue, including the use of chemical weapons.