The Army Has Ended ‘Virginity Testing.’ It’s Time for the Navy and Air Force to End It Too
In 2017, I spoke at a conference on fighting child trafficking to an audience of Jakarta high schoolers. I had been working in the anti-trafficking arena for around four years with Rumah Faye, and had only recently started our safehouse in Batam, Riau Islands. Directly assisting victims of child sex trafficking had helped develop my […]
Carmel Budiardjo: A Lifetime Campaigning for Everyone in Indonesia
In August 2005, I visited Carmel Budiardjo, then an 80-year-old human rights campaigner, in her London townhouse. We talked on the second floor, which was also the office for Tapol, the human rights organization that she helped set up in 1973 (in Indonesian, the word “tapol” stands for tahanan politik – political prisoner). In the […]
Why We’re Initiating Project Multatuli
Every day I wake up, drink some coffee, connect to the internet and find that so many things are wrong in the world. Maybe you do, too. I hope so–this way I won’t feel alone. Every day and everywhere–in Myanmar, Palestine, and Papua, as I write this–people are being killed. Meanwhile others online argue about […]
