Full Coverage: Indonesia

17.07.2008 Three years after a devastating tsunami flattened Banda Aceh, the mayor of that coastal town on Indonesia’s northern tip reckons that restoration work is far from over. He now needs to adapt to threats posed by climate change.

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.
India's tigers at risk

05.02.2008 President Suharto of Indonesia, who died last month, was responsible for the invasion of East Timor in 1975, for its occupation for almost 25 years, for the murder of so many of its people and for the insecure and traumatised state it remains in despite its emergence as a free, new country six years ago.

30.01.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 29 (OneWorld) - Hundreds of international officials, business leaders, and civil society activists have gathered in Indonesia this week for a major UN conference on corruption. At the same time, a week-long period of mourning began in the country to honor a political leader deemed to be one of the most corrupt in world history.

28.01.2008 An initiative "to secure the economic, social and environmental sustainability of around a million cocoa farmers and their communities in Ghana, India, Indonesia and the Caribbean" was unveiled by chocolate manufacturer Cadbury and the UN Development Programme today.
From Cadbury Schweppes

08.01.2008 Field investigations in Indonesia have found that the home of two tribes of indigenous people and endangered elephants, tigers and orang-utans faces “being split in half” by construction of “a legally questionable highway” for logging trucks servicing one of the world’s largest paper companies.

07.01.2008 A series of stories looks at HIV vulnerability, poverty, and women's rights and empowerment since the 2004 natural disaster ravaged Southeast Asia.

11.12.2007 A "deficit of trust in the South" about the hidden agendas of the North is hampering negotiations at the UN climate change conference in Indonesia, a developing country spokesperson said in Bali today.

11.12.2007 The 10th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol today – which requires industrialised countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by at least five per cent from the 1990 level – was marked by a warning that the treaty is under threat at the UN climate change negotiations in Bali, Indonesia.

10.12.2007 Shenanigans at the UN climate change conference in Bali: Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley - a British climate sceptic who has already presented "The IPCC's Scientific Fraud" at one of the conference's many side-events - was called out of a room in which he was speaking and told he would be "thrown out by security" if he continued to hold press briefings within the conference compound. As usual these days, the confrontation has been captured on YouTube (UNmenace1. mov and UNmenace2.mov).
Tuesday, Bali: Monckton strikes again. In a nearby hotel - not the UN conference centre - he is due to be part of a panel that will speak after a screening of the "anti" TV programme The Great Global Warming Swindle.

07.12.2007 Who is the biggest NGO a the climate change talks in Bali? Is it Greenpeace? Is it WWF? The International Chamber of Commerce? It's the lobbying group, International Emissions Trading Association.

07.12.2007 An NGO group in Bali is taking advantage of the international climate change conference on the Indonesian island to press for a Global Day of Silence.

29.11.2007 OneWorld's own social networking space, OneClimate.net, is opening a virtual window on the UN's forthcoming climate conference in Bali, allowing people around the world to participate in the event without emitting carbon through flying to Indonesia.

28.11.2007 The threat to global health and security posed by Indonesia's refusal to share samples of "bird flu" virus with the World Health Organization could be countered by the establishment of a vaccine stockpile in Asia, say two scientists.