Pip Hinman

  • ACEH: Indonesian military escalates repression

    BY CHRIS LATHAM & PIP HINMAN On February 20 the "cease-fire" between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian military (TNI) was extended for the third time since the so-called humanitarian pause in 2000. These declarations mean nothing,

  • INDONESIA: Nike forced into self-criticism

    The recent well-publicised report by Global Alliance for Workers and Communities on sexual harassment of women workers in Nike factories in Indonesia is hardly earth-shattering news. By now, Nike's legendary exploitation of

  • Protests demand 'Timor oil for the Timorese'

    BY PIP HINMAN& SIBYLLE KACZOREK SYDNEY — An effigy of Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer, complete with "letters" from oil companies Petroz and Santos protruding from its suit pockets, drew curious students to an action on Sydney

  • WEST PAPUA: Howard repeats Timor crimes

    Prime Minister John Howard, under pressure, once described the successive Australian governments' approaches to East Timor as “bipartisan wrong policy”. Yet this hasn't influenced his views on the self-determination struggle

  • AMWU secretary quizzed on 'fair trade'

    SYDNEY — On September 5 some 250 trade unionists, students and campaigners were treated to a radical-sounding speech from Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Doug Cameron, the most prominent of the ALP's "fair

  • Indonesian appeals for Australian union aid

    SYDNEY — Romawaty Sinaga, the international officer of the militant Indonesian National Front for Workers Struggle (FNPBI), in Australia to meet other trade unionists, has appealed for greater assistance for the emerging independent

  • Asian trade unionists to speak

    SYDNEY — Indonesian union leader Romawaty Sinaga, of the the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggle (FNPBI), and Francisco Pascual, of the Philippine People's Development Resource Centre, are the two international guest

  • No mandatory detention for asylum seekers

    No mandatory detention for asylum seekers!In an attempt to remind federal immigration minister Philip Ruddock of his responsibility to provide protection for asylum seekers, a group of 27 non-government organisations has called on

  • Indonesia: Proposed security law sparks opposition

    Indonesian House of Representatives speaker and Golkar faction leader Akbar Tandjung wants the Abdurrahman Wahid government to ratify the draconian security law which was pushed through a depleted parliament during the last hours of

  • Reject Wahid's austerity plan, says PRD

    Reject Wahid's austerity plan, says PRDSince his election five months ago, the new president of Indonesia, Abdurrahman Wahid, has managed to create the impression that his is a people-friendly government. But how true is this?

  • Indonesia plans to deport labour consultant

    Indonesia plans to deport labour consultantRoger Smith, an Australian who works for the American Centre for International Labor Solidarity, which is funded by the US government and the AFL-CIO, has been threatened with deportation