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The OneWorld Indonesia Country Guide
The aim of this Guide is to provide a brief introduction to human rights and sustainable development issues in Indonesia
The 11 foreign activists deported from Indonesia
18.11.2009 “Do we have to point out that the police are not supposed to take their orders from industrial conglomerates?”
+ Activists and journalists deported, detained and intimidated
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Related topics/regions: [Forests] [Environmental activism] [Corporations]
Image: The 11 foreign activists deported from Indonesia
Sarah Burton applauds the local Indonesian communities for their efforts to protect their forests  (©Ardiles Rante/Grenpeace)
16.11.2009 What a difference a day makes. I did bear witness, indeed, but to something altogether more inspiring ... to people power in its most direct form.

+ Message from Greenpeace's new international executive director

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From: Greenpeace International
Related topics/regions: [Forests]
Image: Sarah Burton applauds the local Indonesian communities for their efforts to protect their forests (©Ardiles Rante/Grenpeace)
13.11.2009 The theft of West Papua's mineral wealth must end. The province's courageous resistance movement deserves nothing less, says John Pilger.
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Up For Grabs, report released by the Environmental Investigation Agency and Telapak
11.11.2009 The planned expansion of plantations in the Papuan provinces of Indonesia should be immediately suspended and reviewed amid concerns over massive deforestation and widespread exploitation of local communities, environmentalists warn.
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Related topics/regions: [Forests] [Agriculture]
Image: Up For Grabs, report released by the Environmental Investigation Agency and Telapak
Balibo
15.10.2009 Is it ok to make a feature film about a true story? This often-replayed controversy is reopened by Balibo, a dramatic telling of the murder of six Australian journalists by Indonesian forces when they invaded East Timor in 1975.
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From: OneWorld UK
Related topics/regions: [Timor-Leste] [Politics]
Image: Balibo
14.09.2009 Indonesian laws are increasingly being deployed to obstruct the work of human rights defenders, deterring people from speaking out against injustices, says a leading Asian rights group.
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From: Asian Human Rights Commission
19.07.2009 Painful experience of economic disaster in the 1990s may have equipped Indonesia to cope better with the current global recession. From Poverty to Power
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Tsunami destruction in Hambantota has inspired Chinese development but no reconciliation
04.05.2009 The tragedy of the 2004 tsunami brought peace to Aceh after 30 years of conflict. In very similar circumstances, why did Sri Lanka take the opposite approach and abandon reconciliation?
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Related topics/regions: [Sri Lanka] [Conflict resolution] [Emergency relief]
Image: Tsunami destruction in Hambantota has inspired Chinese development but no reconciliation © Peter Armstrong
16.04.2009 Lack of law enforcement against illegal trade in Indonesia threatens the survival of orang-utans and gibbons on Sumatra, according to a new study.
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From: WWF International
23.02.2009 Unregulated trade — at 10 to 100 times legal levels — has caused Southeast Asian Box Turtles almost to vanish from parts of Indonesia where they were once common, according to a new report.
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From: WWF International
30.12.2008 The verdict expected on 31 December in the trial of a senior intelligence official charged with the murder of the Indonesian human rights lawyer Munir is an important test of the independence of the country's judicial system, two rights' groups said today.
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New palm oil plantation with forest it replaced in the background
19.08.2008 In a rare piece of good news for Indonesian forests, a regional governor has announced an interim ban on deforestation in Riau, one of the areas currently worst affected by rapid deforestation.
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From: Greenpeace International
Image: New palm oil plantation with forest it replaced in the background
A crude awakening
25.07.2008 Petroleum-fuelled prosperity is masking the challenge of oil depletion and removing the sense of urgency that is desperately needed to promote diversification in oil-exporting states, a report warns.
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Related topics/regions: [Timor-Leste] [Saudi Arabia] [Norway] [Nigeria] [Malaysia] [Kuwait] [Kazakhstan] [Iran] [Azerbaijan] [Angola] [Algeria]
Image: A crude awakening © Global Witness
© Telapak/EIA
25.06.2008 Papuans have demanded a halt to all new forestry and plantations deals until the Indonesian region’s Special Autonomy Law protects indigenous rights, a coalition of local organisations said today.
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From: Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
Image: © Telapak/EIA
Orang-utan conservation protests and customer outcry prompt Unilever policy change
01.05.2008 Despite insisting a week ago that Unilever would not be bounced into taking action, company boss Patrick Cescau has performed an about-turn and announced that his company supports a moratorium on rainforest destruction in Indonesia.
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From: Greenpeace International
Image: Orang-utan conservation protests and customer outcry prompt Unilever policy change
A Chinese rice farmer.
24.04.2008 Asian governments' attempts to manage skyrocketing food prices by restricting rice exports is actually aggravating food shortages in the region, says Peter Timmer in this interview.
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From: Center for Global Development
Related topics/regions: [Vietnam] [Thailand] [Philippines] [India] [China] [Asia and the Pacific]
Image: A Chinese rice farmer. © kevsunblush (flickr)
An Ethiopian farmer.
23.04.2008 Small farmers from around the world celebrated last week the International Day of Peasant's Struggle and honored the communities and organizations in over 25 countries that are challenging escalating food costs.
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From: Grassroots International
Related topics/regions: [Germany] [Cameroon] [Argentina]
Image: An Ethiopian farmer. © International Food Policy Research Institute
Orang-utans
22.04.2008 Activists across Europe - many dressed as orang-utans to draw attention to Unilever's "monkey business" - have been demonstrating to protect Indonesian rainforests from the expansion of the palm oil industry.
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From: Greenpeace International
Related topics/regions: [Europe]
Image: Orang-utans
Nafsiah Mboi.
05.03.2008 Dr. Nafsiah Mbo, Secretary of the National AIDS Commission in Indonesia, must challenge gender inequity and other stigmas associated with marginalized populations in her country as she seeks to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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From: Centre for Development and Population Activities
14.02.2008 Laws are failing to protect the critically endangered Sumatran Tiger, according to a report by wildlife trade network monitors.
India's tigers at risk
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From: Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
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