Contents: Leading playwright arrested -- Mass arrests as Suharto gets 7th term -- The 1998 student protest movement -- All the president's (wo)men -- No solution in sight for economic woes -- US training for Indonesian troops exposed -- Boat people flooding into Malaysia -- How anti-Chinese were the riots? -- The forests are ablaze again -- Military blamed as thousands die of hunger -- Acehnese refugees killed as hundreds are deported -- Solidarity conferences on East Timor