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Local people, supported by an indigenous organisation, disrupted the coal-mining operations of Australian-owned PT Bahari Cakrawala Sebuku in February, to protest against the impacts of mining on the island of Sebuku, off South Kalimantan.
May 14, 2004
Reports surrounding the deaths of 13 unauthorised miners at the Pongkor gold mine, West Java, indicate how poverty, corruption and inhumane security methods may be contributing to the high death toll.
May 14, 2004
Six people are reported dead after police fired on protesters at Ruteng, East Nusa Tenggara province. This is the tragic outcome of the local authorities' hard-line approach to clearing coffee growers from land designated as state-owned forest.
May 14, 2004
Aceh Papua Solidarity (SAP), a group which includes political activists from the democratic movement, said it rejected the results of the elections in Aceh and Papua because they were legally flawed and did not conform to the principles of democracy.
May 14, 2004
On March 26, AMAN signed a co-operation agreement with nine candidates for the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) all from different provinces.
May 14, 2004
Long before the results of Indonesia's April 5th elections were announced, the outcome for environmental policy-making was already clear.
May 14, 2004
Military will continue to guard 'vital projects', Emergency decree on illegal logging, WWF drops APP, Students hunger strike against nuclear power plant, Irish parliamentarians support UN review on Papua
May 13, 2004