oh, and asiet news (you should be able to find it easily on the web) -- sometimes excellent.
following on from the offlist, these might be helpful backgrounders, but not always what i'd call a good perspective, though they do provide a basic introduction:
anything you can find that's translated and/or published by Vedi Hadiz, Kanishka Jayasuriya, Siddharth Chandra, Douglas Kammen [i've only read and seen conference papers)
_ Post-Soeharto Indonesia: renewal or chaos?_ ed. Geoff Forrester
_ Indonesia: the challenge of change_ eds. Baker, Soesastro, Kristiadi and Ramage
_Making Indonesia_ Kahin, Lev, and McVey Ithaca: Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program, 1996
_Indonesia : law, propaganda and terror_ Southwood and Flanagan London: Zed Press, 1983
_ Indonesia, the rise of capital_ Richard Robison Sydney: Allen & Unwin for Asian Studies Association of Australia, 1986
_ Power in motion : capital mobility and the Indonesian state_ Jeffrey Winters Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996
_ The last days of President Suharto_ eds. Edward Aspinall, Herb Feith and Gerry van Klinken E-mail: monash.asia.institute at arts.monash.edu.au
Angela _________