Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Resources for Reporting on the Jakarta Hotel Bombings

By Stan Alcorn

On the morning of Friday, July 17, at least eight people were killed and fifty injured in near-simultaneous bombings of two luxury hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was the first major terrorist attack to take place on Indonesian soil in several years.

To help journalists covering this story, in Indonesia and around the world, the Dart Center is aggregating useful resources. If you have an addition, please add it in the comments. More »

The Joys and Sorrow of Indonesia and Timor Leste

By Peter Tukan

Peter Tukan was a participant at a three-month intensive training program facilitated by RMIT International (Melbourne, Australia) which was funded by a bilateral program between Indonesia and the Australian Government (IASTP). The Dart Centre Australasia took responsibility for the trauma and journalism component of the course, which ran over nearly three weeks.

The “Balibo Five”—30 Years Later

By Cait McMahon

Shirley Shackleton—whose husband, Australian journalist Greg Shackleton, was murdered in East Timor in 1975—has been asking the same question for 30 years: “I want to know what happened to my husband and his colleagues,” she says. “Why were these people murdered in cold blood?”

Advice From One Who's Been There

By Trina McLellan

For a reminder of what it can be like to work in an area of total devastation after a tsunami, the Dart Centre's Trina McLellan spoke to Patrick Hamilton, an award-winning photographer with national newspaper The Australian.

Tsunami Relief/Reporter Grief

The word "indescribable" is one of those clichés often used by people too lazy to really describe what they're seeing. But for the first time in my professional career, I found a place where indescribable was actually the most accurate description.