https://www.insideindonesia.org/component/tags/tag/gangsters Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:03:50 +0700 Joomla! - Open Source Content Management en-gb admin@insideindonesia.org (Inside Indonesia) https://www.insideindonesia.org/archive/articles/indonesia-s-new-anarchists https://www.insideindonesia.org/archive/articles/indonesia-s-new-anarchists Insurrectionary anarchists, with international connections, nihilist values and a penchant for arson, are moving to fill the vacuum on the left]]> Articles Sat, 12 Oct 2013 20:05:36 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/archive/articles/review-when-perpetrators-speak https://www.insideindonesia.org/archive/articles/review-when-perpetrators-speak Joshua Oppenheimer’s groundbreaking new film raises disturbing questions about why perpetrators of the 1965-66 mass killings still enjoy impunity for their actions ]]> Articles Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:00:00 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/archive/articles/an-interview-with-joshua-oppenheimer https://www.insideindonesia.org/archive/articles/an-interview-with-joshua-oppenheimer The filmmaker explains that The Act of Killing exposes the imagination of terror]]> Articles Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:38:08 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/archive/articles/review-an-act-of-manipulation https://www.insideindonesia.org/archive/articles/review-an-act-of-manipulation Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing is a bold, disturbing and ultimately unsatisfactory exploration of the place of violence in modern Indonesia]]> Articles Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:46:02 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/archive/articles/the-biggest-cock https://www.insideindonesia.org/archive/articles/the-biggest-cock In Jakarta’s crowded neighbourhoods, beliefs in supernatural power and invulnerability still surround the figure of the jago tough man]]> Articles Sun, 04 Nov 2012 07:00:00 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/archive/articles/for-the-good-of-the-people https://www.insideindonesia.org/archive/articles/for-the-good-of-the-people The challenges of governing ‘societal organisations’ pose difficult questions for Indonesian democracy ]]> Articles Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:56:51 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-9611/trapped-in-the-legacy-of-the-past https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-9611/trapped-in-the-legacy-of-the-past Conflict between Timorese youth gangs and martial arts groups hark back to the Indonesian occupation]]> Edition 96: Apr-June 2009 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:30:31 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-9314/crime-and-criminality https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-9314/crime-and-criminality This edition of Inside Indonesia explores the complex politics of illegality ]]> Edition 93: Jul-Sep 2008 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:00:00 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-9314/the-rise-and-fall-of-a-gangster https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-9314/the-rise-and-fall-of-a-gangster Ethics and politics don’t mix in the world of Jakarta’s preman ]]> Edition 93: Jul-Sep 2008 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:00:00 +0700 https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-5354/political-gangsters https://www.insideindonesia.org/editions/edition-5354/political-gangsters The riot that engulfed Jakarta on 27 July 1996 started after army-backed gangsters invaded Megawati's PDI headquarters. JESSE RANDALL traces the strange relationship between government and criminality. ]]> Edition 53: Jan-Mar 1998 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:31:42 +0700