I have translated part of a story entitled “The Clan” in which Willem Walraven tells us about his Indonesian in-laws. In the part I have translated we are told how he met his Sundanese wife Itih.

Is there any non-Indonesian song that has the name of an Indonesian city in its very title? The only one I can think of (and if it is not the only one it is certainly the most famous one) is Brecht and Weill’s “Surabaya Johnny”.

The tangled logic of the state of Indonesia’s assertion of sovereignity over western Papua.

Captain Westerling, hero in a struggle against Javanese imperialism in Indonesia or Dutch villain.

Review of the film Merah Putih, the Indonesian independence war against the Dutch.

The Dutch state being sued over war crimes at Rawagede, West Java.

The May 1998 riots in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities, mass rapes, anti-Chinese sentiment, and how the rioters came to be viewed.

Indonesians are being denied much of the country’s greatest literature, for political reasons.

On what gives countries the rights to make territorial claims.

What if there had been a communist victory in 1965.