Nuclear intelligence specialists spent years mapping the skies of Indonesia, a project involving a strange constellation of global agencies that remained hidden in the Ministry of Defence archives.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Four students were killed by Indonesian soldiers on May 12; a confidential cable sent a day later shows a government attempting to stall a revolution with empty talk of reform.
By Constance Bell ·
A high-level meeting kept secret for decades shows the U.S. urging an Indonesian military that had just devastated East Timor to maintain 'sensitivities' while ignoring its own complicity in a decades-long occupation.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Indonesian security forces used joint detachments to seize the capital of Timor-Leste, a collaboration that stayed in State Department files for years.
By Harlan Pryce ·
The blood-soaked streets of Dili were the result of a deliberate choice kept hidden in an intelligence report that parsed the Indonesian military's intent to ignore a democratic vote.
By Harlan Pryce ·
The Indonesian army slaughtered students at Trisakti University in 1998; a classified cable proves the US knew the killings were unprovoked while the world was told otherwise.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A confidential telegram kept secret for decades shows the US Embassy tracking a surge in missing persons while playing a high-stakes game with Indonesia's leadership
By Desmond Okafor ·
For years, the American government stayed silent about the killings of Indonesian students, using a curated gap in the record to shield the military from the families of the dead.
By Harlan Pryce ·
In a diplomatic cable kept confidential for over two decades, the US balanced the survival of Indonesia's financial framework against the mistreatment of Acehnese refugees
By Desmond Okafor ·
While ethnic Chinese Indonesians faced systemic violence in 1998, a confidential cable tracked their money—a report kept from the public for decades.
By Miriam Adler ·
A confidential telegram kept secret for years shows a retired general using reports of student riots to market himself to the US as a replacement for a fleeing president.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A 1999 telegram, heavily redacted, shows the bargain struck between a U.S. Secretary of Defense and the general who denied the murder of East Timorese civilians
By Harlan Pryce ·
Confidential cables from 1998 show how the US watched Indonesian students fight to scrub a 32-year dictatorship from the presidency while B.J. Habibie clung to a fragile office.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Four days before a presidency collapsed, a secret pact between the military and an elite Muslim group stripped the regime of its last cronies.
By Harlan Pryce ·
While state troops continued to kill unarmed civilians in the provinces, a confidential report from 1998 shows the US monitoring the collapse of military credibility in Jakarta.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Indonesian security forces shot unarmed students, triggering a national revolt that ended a thirty-year presidency and left the capital's business core in flames.
By Harlan Pryce ·