The University of Sydney
Notes, reports and speculations by Max Lane on Indonesia, East Timor and politics. All analysis here are my personal views and are not the views of any university, institution or organisation with which I am affiliated.
- POEMS IN ENGLISH AND INDONESIAN - APRIL MAY, 2010
- APRIL - MAY CALENDAR UPDATE
- Free Public lecture: Crisis to come: Indonesia and the politics of 21st century underdevelopment
- TWO POEMS BY MAX LANE ON BALI AND PALESTINE
- Where Max is speaking - updated December 9, 2009
- www.maxlaneonline.com
- New Max Lane Blog
- Max Lane at Ubud Writers Festival, October, 2009
- JAKARTA GLOBE Op-Ed Column on passing of Joesoef Isak
- Joesoef Isak has passed away
- The Indonesian left and Green Left Weekly
- No surprises in Presidential elections
- This Earth of Mankind
- Anti-neoliberal demagogy fails to enliven Indonesian election
- Public lecture: literature and politics in Indonesia
- TALK: INDONESIA TEN YEARS AFTER SUHARTO
- Indonesia's Elections a Decade After Suharto: The Elite-Mass Gap, Human Rights, and Mass Movements from Below
- Indonesian elections put militarists into the game
- Talks by Max Lane - April - June
- Indonesian election campaigns get off to a limp start
- Selected publications by Max Lane
- "2009 elections do not belong to the people!"
- Sharp polemic on Indonesian elections
- Protest re 2009 Indonesian elections
- Visit to Manila
- Gap between elite and people widens as Indonesian elections approach
- It's a cult of personality among candidates who have no personality
- Lecture on Indonesian elections in Manila
- Sebuah usulan
- Calendar – Manila Lecture
- Seminar on Indonesian elections
- Election Reflections 3: Notes on presidential politics
- Reflections 2: The basis for a national leadership crisis and the Indonesian elections
- Update on elections and progressive politics: the PBR says it has the same mission as General Prabowo
- INTERESTING COMMENT PIECE FROM INDONESIA
- 2009 Indonesian elections: Reflections 1 (September 8)
- New event in Amsterdam
- Socialist and "populist in general" perspectives
- HISTORY: UNFINISHED NATION
- Book review of UNFINISHED NATION
- Indonesian Peoples Organisations leader interviews updated
- Two recent articles on the Left in Indonesia by Max Lane
- New book launched honouring Joesoef Isak
- First Singapore Blog comment on UNFINISHED NATION
- Perspectives on progressive politics in Indonesia - new journal
- SEMSAR SIAHAAN: The artist of Indonesia's anti-dictatorship movement
- June 1 FPN protest at Presidential Palace and World Bank
- A thriving Asian studies is integral to a critical liberal humanities program
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Racialism and Socialism
- Photos FPN action May 29 - 2nd Jakarta aksi
- Following Indonesian political developments
- MAY 21 final post for the day
- FPN demonstrators at rally
- DOCUMENT - FPN statement May 13
- 4.35pm UPDATE May 21
- May 21 updates - Ternate and others
- UPDATED MAY 21: Comments on Peoples Demand Front (FRM) action, May 20, 2008
- Electricity Unions join May 21 preparation plans
- DOCUMENT: FPN call to action issued via mass leaflet (TRANSLATION)
- DOCUMENT: Attack on KPRM offices, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan
- AKSI - heading towards May 21
- Street protests in Indonesia will accelerate
- New left activist alliance formed in Indonesia - UPDATED
- Comments on THIS EARTH OF MANKIND
- UNFINISHED NATION release dates (May UPDATE)
- THE CHINESE IN INDONESIA - by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- The Left in Indonesia - an interesting interview
- Malaysian elections - a short interview
- IWD Jakarta, 2008: "Women Seize the Night" Theatre
- An important development on the Indonesian left (revised)
- Malaysian SUN daily on Pramoedya books
- Interesting developments on the Indonesian Left - sources
- A piece on the dictator Suharto by John Roosa
- Cuba, East Timor and Australia: MATCH IT!
- Malaysia's THE STAR reviews Pramoedya's AROK OF JAVA
- Pramoedya's THE CHINESE IN INDONESIA now available in English
- Recent published translations of Indonesian books by Max Lane
- UNFINISHED NATION available on Amazon.com
- New women's theatre planned for 2008 International Women's Day
- AROK OF JAVA review broadcast around Asia on Channel News Asia
- NEW STRAITS TIMES on AROK OF JAVA
- JAKARTA POST on AROK DEDES
- Unity in the face of permanent war
- STRAITS TIMES Singapore on publication of AROK OF JAVA
- Bali, 1969, 1972
- AROK OF JAVA book launch, Jakarta
- Comments on inequality and globalisation, 2004
- I lost a few seconds on July 4, 1987 in Manila
- Is there a renewal of unrest brewing in the Philippines.
- PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER: "Writer to the World" by CHRIS GOGWILT
- Arok of Java Book launch October 5
- Historic conference begins new era of left cooperation
- Defeating Neo-liberalism, Prospects and Projects
- Indonesian community and political groups on Burmese situation
- LATIN AMERICA AND ASIA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FORUM
- History of Modern Indonesia - University of Sydney Summer School
- AROK OF JAVA to be launched in Singapore
- Struggling for Rights in a Self-Reliant Way
- Reflections on East Timorese elections and politics
- VERSO to publish "UNFINISHED NATION: Indonesia before and after Suharto".
- About Max Lane
- Theatre: NYAI ONTOSOROH seats selling fast
- Public forum discusses "Bangsa Yang Belum Selesai"
- INDONESIA: Youth political leadership
- NYAI ONTOSOROH - tolong sebarluaskan posting ini
- Indonesia, an unfinished revolution
- TWO NEW PRAMOEDYA BOOKS LAUNCHING IN ENGLISH SOON
- More from May 22 book launch
- NYAI ONTOSOROH Jakarta Performance - Tickets
- News from NYAI ONTOSOROH
- On Rewinning Collective Memory
- Venezuela and Indonesia seminar
- Another newspaper report on UNFINISHED NATION launch
- UNFINISHED NATION: Indonesia, before and after Suharto
- Reflections on the East Timorese Presidential elections
- Interview with Avelino Coelho in East Timor
- How to contact Max Lane
- History and popular mobilisations under attack in Indonesia
- Avelino Coelho's Presidential campaign in districts
- East Timor Presidential elections - interview with Avelino do Coelho
- Aceh: New forms of foreign domination developing
- DISCLAIMER
- Disclaimer
- In Memoriam Aini Chalid
- 2007 a year of all out campaigning, says Papernas leader
- Avelino da Silva will stand for President in East Timor
- Outcome of Papernas congress
- New initiatives for political resistance in Indonesia
- Radical party to enter Indonesian politics
- In Jakarta but a little out of action
- Back there
- NYAI begins Jakarta rehearsals - your support still needed
- Cuban aid to East Timor: government statement and comment on political implications.
- Black-listing of academic
- TWO FAVOURITE NOVELISTS
- AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA AND AUSTRALIA ON THE FRAMEWORK FOR SECURITY COOPERATION
- "Modern West" versus "Traditional East"
- Australia Indonesia Relations (plus review of RELUCTANT SAVIOUR)
- THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
- Scholarship and engagement
- Modernity and Asia: the "modern West" is superior to the "traditional East"?
- Two JAKARTA POST articles on Aceh and Papua, 2002 and 2006
- KOMPAS newspaper report on NYAI ONTOSOROH project
- Courses I teach, or help teach, at Sydney University
- Commentary by Dita Indah Sari on issues relating to September 30, 1965
- Reflecting on the meaning of 30 September in Indonesia
- Joesoef Isak Ubud Writers and Readers Festival speech on Pramoedya
- INDONESIA: Historians under criminal investigation
- Newspaper and other popular articles by Max Lane
- 1945 Batavia - Indonesians reject colonialism
- Protests and number of poor on the rise
- On Joesoef Isak
- The urban poor and the proletariat in mobilising politics.
- With Joesoef Isak, publisher and Indonesian intellectual
- Indonesia's AKSI phenomenon
- Early articles on dissent in Indonesia, 1982
- With Pram in Jakarta, February, 2006
- With Pramoedya, January 1981
- Education and the economy in Indonesia - article by Bill Guerin
- A report on recent aid to Indonesia
- Good Neighbour, bad neighbour, Australia, Indonesia - comment by Max Lane
- Pop music plus and a spiritual legacy of opposition to Suharto’s Indonesia
- Art and resistance - book by Revitriyoso Husodo
- KOMPAS article on PAPERNAS party and other new parties
- Pramoedya commemoration in Jakarta
- Women’s voices in the arts
- The politics of the Jakarta semi-proletarian poor
- Letter from Jakarta, August 1
- Mass rally launches new electoral party
- Mass action in Surabaya, Feb., 2001 – recent information
- JAMILIA AND THE PRESIDENT, a play by Ratna Sarumpaet
- Letter from Jakarta, July 19
- Socialist Party of Timor on recent Timor crisis
- The role of the marginalised elite – further tentative analysis
- Analysing East Timorese politics - tentative starting points
- Another view on East Timor - a JAKARTA POST Opinion piece
- More background articles on East Timorese politics - 2005
- Class consciousness and political history in Indonesia
- Death of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- Socialist Party of Timor
- 2002 comment on East Timor, UN and politics
- Comment on EastTimor crisis - May 30