Full Coverage: 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

14.02.2008 Laws are failing to protect the critically endangered Sumatran Tiger, according to a report by wildlife trade network monitors.
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