Comrades everywhere, On the 31st of October – 1st November we will again be conducting a National Strike. Our demands are: wage rise of 50 % (making the minimum wage in Jakarta Rp. 3.7 million); end the system of contract work and outsourcing; withdraw the No. 9 2013 Presidential Decree; health insurance and free education […]
DOCUMENT: SUPPORT THE STRIKE Peoples Liberation Party.
Peoples Liberation Party: support the strike. WE MUST: (minimal) 50% wage increase; Abolish Outsourcing; Social Insurance for all the people; and STOP PRODUCTION (STRIKE) on a National Scale! Salam Pembebasan, Strike! Strike! Strike! The Labour United Front with the name Labour Movement National Consolidation (KNGB) was established within less than three […]
PENGUMUMAN: Pementasan tari Melanie Lane dan Eko Supriyanto di Jakarta, Solo dan Padang.
Pementasan tari Melanie Lane dan Eko Supriyanto di Jakarta, Solo dan Padang. “Solid States”
SHORT COMMENT: On funding the Humanities and Indonesia Studies in the universities by Max Lane
Despite the academe’s now long acquiescence in the corporatisation of the universities, the commodification of education and the subjugation of university activity to the ideology and policies of the governments of the day, I still continue to be shocked by so-called academic leaders praising government decisions that further embed this destructive trend. Following the visit […]
INDONESIA 1965: A forgotten massacre on our doorstep – by Max Lane
INDONESIA 1965: A forgotten massacre on our doorstep – by Max Lane The systematic political murder of around 1 million people in Indonesia began on 1 October 1965 and lasted around three years. The violence was accompanied by mass arrests, probably hundreds of thousands going in and out of ad hoc prisons between 1965 and […]
“The ‘prickly’ relationship between Australia and Indonesia”: an article from 1995 by Max Lane
“Words May Be Consensual, But The Actions Are Confrontationist.” by Max Lane Sydney Morning Herald, 19 September 1995 +++++++ IT’S SURPRISING that any observer of Indonesian society and politics could accept the official line that Indonesia’s approach to the resolution of issues is “consensual”. Indonesian politics during the three decades of the self-styled New Order has […]
2005 Sydney Morning Herald article on Joesoef Isak and Max Lane
Click below to bring up PDF of article. Max and Joesoef (1)
OLD 2001 NOTES/ARTICLE: INDONESIA: the urban poor and the proletariat in mobilising politics.
Below are the notes used for a seminar paper delivered in, I think 2001, at the International Institute for Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The paper was never prepared for publication. (PLEASE NOTE: A lot has happened since 2001. This article refers to the Peoples Democratic Party (PRD). This party split in 2007. […]
VERY SHORT COMMENT: The polls, the ALP and the Greens.
With the decline of the trade union movement (primarily due to the acquiescence of its bureaucratic caste leadership to the 1980s Prices-and-Incomes Accord and consequent demobilisation) and the connected decline of ALP activist membership, there are few (if any) mechanisms to know clearly the political thinking of the “public”, the working class, who make up […]
SHORT COMMENT: The Greens, social democracy and ideological anemia – by Max Lane.
Even the paid professional commentariat working for the privately owned media as well as the ABC have long publicly recognised a significant sameness between the Australian Labour Party (ALP) and the Liberal National Coalition (LNC). The convergence between the ALP and the LNC was recognised in the 80s by the wit who described them as […]
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