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Etek works for PT Agro Masang Perkasa in Agam district, West Sumatra. She has been working there since 1994 and will continue to do so as there are no other jobs she could do to sustain herself and her family. This brief report is based on an interview with Etek during June 2008 in Bogor.
August 14, 2008
Plans to push ahead with oil palm expansion in Papua have run into opposition from local people.
August 14, 2008
Papuans are calling on the Indonesian government to stop issuing licences for companies logging and developing plantations in Papua's forests until indigenous rights are protected.
August 14, 2008
A food mega-project planned for a vast area in the Papuan district of Merauke is causing concern that indigenous people's land will be taken and their livelihoods destroyed.
August 14, 2008
As the intergovernmental process to agree a post-Kyoto climate agreement moves towards the 2009 deadline, Asian civil society groups meeting in Bangkok in July have called again for climate justice.
August 14, 2008
Ben Young of Jubilee Scotland writes about the on-going campaign to cancel Suharto's debt legacy to the UK.
August 14, 2008
A DTE workshop at this year's UK climate camp drew attention to climate change concerns in Indonesia.
August 14, 2008
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