https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958 Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:07:13 +0700 Joomla! - Open Source Content Management en-gb admin@insideindonesia.org (Inside Indonesia) https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/a-veneer-of-tradition https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/a-veneer-of-tradition How strong is local tradition in the face of the modern state?ARIANNE VAN DER MEER attends a ceremony in Sumatra's Minangkabau area, famous for its matrilineal culture. She finds that the cultural symbols do survive. But they are now also tools in the hands of the central government. ]]> thusharadibley@yahoo.com.au (Arianne van der Meer) Edition 49: Jan-Mar 1997 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:00:00 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/aceh-s-year-of-living-dangerously https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/aceh-s-year-of-living-dangerously Australian volunteer LEON JONES was living in Aceh in the lead-up to the violence that eventualy left up to 2000 dead. ]]> thusharadibley@yahoo.com.au (Leon Jones) Edition 49: Jan-Mar 1997 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:00:00 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/schooling-in-aceh https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/schooling-in-aceh Education should open doors to a brighter future. But when school costs the earth yet yields only failure, is the price too high? BARBARA LEIGH talks with Raziah, a poor mother in Aceh. ]]> thusharadibley@yahoo.com.au (Barbara Leigh) Edition 49: Jan-Mar 1997 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:00:00 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/the-forgotten-cost-of-counter-insurgency-in-aceh https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/the-forgotten-cost-of-counter-insurgency-in-aceh KERRY BROGAN talks with two women whose husbands 'disappeared'.]]> thusharadibley@yahoo.com.au (Kerry Brogan) Edition 49: Jan-Mar 1997 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:18 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/battle-for-the-pews https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/battle-for-the-pews GERRY VAN KLINKEN explores the dramatic conflict within the Batak Protestant Church (HKBP). Environmental protest, military-backed thugs, and guerilla tactics to attend Sunday worship - these are the ingredients of a bizarre story. ]]> thusharadibley@yahoo.com.au (Gerry van Klinken) Edition 49: Jan-Mar 1997 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:00:00 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/of-money-and-trees-a-19th-century-growth-triangle https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/of-money-and-trees-a-19th-century-growth-triangle Unbridled money freely crosses borders and destroys Sumatra's pristine environment.... The 1990s? No, the 1850s, writes FREEK COLOMBIJN. ]]> thusharadibley@yahoo.com.au (Freek Columbijn) Edition 49: Jan-Mar 1997 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:00:00 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/two-sumatran-films https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/two-sumatran-films The National Library of Australia now has the most comprehensive collection of Indonesian films available outside of Indonesia. Two films in this collection come from Sumatra.]]> thusharadibley@yahoo.com.au (David Hanan) Edition 49: Jan-Mar 1997 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:00:00 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/colonial-legacy https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-4958/colonial-legacy It may be true that Java rules Indonesia. But Javanese labourers in Sumatra, writes BUDI AGUSTONO, have been at the bottom of the heap for generations. ]]> thusharadibley@yahoo.com.au (Budi Agustono) Edition 49: Jan-Mar 1997 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:00:00 +0700