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Down to Earth
International Campaign for Ecological Justice in Indonesia
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- Down to Earth, is the quarterly newsletter of the International Campaign for Ecological Justice in Indonesia.
- The newsletter is available on subscription either in its printed form or as a rich text format or text only email document.
- Contents of the most recent
issues are listed below. Articles posted on this website are highlighted.
- 'Bahasa Indonesia' marked beside an article means there is an Indonesian version of the article.
Click on 'Bahasa Indonesia' to go to it.
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No. 85-86 August 2010 |
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| Special issue with contributions from JATAM, LMN & Nostromo Research |
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DTE 85-86 PDF version
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Indonesia's coal:
local impacts -
global links
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Foreword
Deadly Coal - coal exploitation and Kalimantan's blighted generation
UK - Indonesia coal connections
Food, coal and Makroman Village
Dark Materials - a global glimpse
India links
Corruption, collusion and nepotism
Coal and climate change
Direct action against coal in Scotland |
Bahasa Indonesia
Mautnya Batubara
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
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Bahasa Indonesia
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No. 84 March 2010
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DTE 84 PDF version
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Climate justice: |
Indonesia packages tree plantation expansion
as emissions reduction strategy
Saving the planet is our joint responsibility, by Pang Yuriun
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Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
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Indigenous rights: |
Indigenous rights in West Kalimantan revisited
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Oil palm/ agrofuels: |
Palm oil for electricity, heat and transport in the UK
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Mining: |
Petition against World Bank support for new nickel mine
Concern over renewed interest in Toka Tindung gold mine, Sulawesi
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Coal: |
Coal in East Kalimantan: taking the toxic tour
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Bahasa Indonesia
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In brief: |
Don't buy or invest in Indonesian pulp and paper
Wood pellet agreement
Climate change causes deaths in fishing communities
Small-scale Fisheries squeezed North & South
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No. 83 December 2009
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DTE 83 PDF version
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Climate justice: |
Climate change impacts: voices from the villages
The demand for climate justice
DNPI announces potential CO2 emissions reduction figures
Indonesia's climate promises and policy incoherence
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Coastal communities: |
Marine resources for climate justice
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Bahasa Indonesia
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In brief: |
Hydro-dam for Papua
Indigenous rights
High Conservation Values and the RSPO
Privatising the coasts
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Bahasa Indonesia
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No. 82 September 2009
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DTE 82 PDF version
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Climate justice: |
REDD concerns deepen
Indonesia's Civil Society Forum for Climate Justice
AMAN calls for emissions reductions and FPIC in REDD projects
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Palm oil: |
Sawit Watch calls for EU to face up to oil palm responsibilities
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Coastal communities: |
Coastal communities want rights upheld
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Bahasa Indonesia
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West Papua / extractives: |
NGOs accused of 'crying wolf' over Tangguh human rights risks
More copper and gold mines for Papua?
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Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
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Law: |
Indonesia's International Treaty Obligations
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Bahasa Indonesia
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in brief: |
More deaths at Freeport-Rio Tinto mine in Papua
World Bank to assess carbon footprint
Harapan REDD film
Aceh forest loss
Guguk carbon stocks assessed
Land grabs website
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No. 80-81 June 2009
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DTE 80-81 PDF version
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Climate justice: |
A crucial year for climate justice
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: the campaign for rights and representation continues
Climate change developments in Indonesia
DTE writes to UK minister about UK MoU with Indonesia
'Biochar' danger
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Fisherfolk rights: |
Arrests at World Oceans Conference
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Forests / pulp: |
More forests to be sacrificed for pulp
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Papua - Tangguh: |
BP Tangguh's climate change commitment under scrutiny
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Mining: |
Rio Tinto under fire from all sides
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Oil palm plantations: |
Sustainability for whom?
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Elections: |
Ecological justice in Indonesia: in whose hands for the next five years?
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DTE's birthday: | Twenty years of DTE
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Indigenous Peoples: | Ten years of AMAN
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No. 79 November 2008
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DTE 79 PDF version
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Climate change: |
The pressure for REDD
Women and climate change
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Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
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Plantations / economy: |
Palm oil no longer 'golden crop'
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Forests: |
Protect adat rights to reduce deforestation
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Mining: |
Indigenous community rejects Lembata mine
BHP Billiton pulls out of Gag nickel project, West Papua
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No. 78 August 2008
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DTE 78 PDF version
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Climate justice: |
Action needed on human rights and development
Who pays for climate change?
More calls for climate justice
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Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
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Papua: |
Merauke mega-project raises food fears
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Papua / plantations: |
Save our people and forests, say Papuans
Indigenous-owned forests felled for oil palm in Keerom
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Oil palm plantations: |
Working in an oil palm plantation - a snapshot of one woman's life
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Debt: |
Jubilee Scotland's campaign against Indonesia's odious debt
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In brief: |
Posthumous award for indigenous leader
Pollution ratings
New Tangguh report
Jatigede dam project again
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No. 76-77 May 2008
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DTE 76-77 PDF version
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Analysis: |
Suharto's legacy
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Climate change: |
Bali and beyond: struggles for climate justice
Debates around REDD, indigenous rights and control over funding
How are climate change developments being played out in Indonesia?
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Climate change / plantations: |
EU energy policy & agrofuels
Indonesia's agrofuels programme hit by high palm oil prices
Communities force Wilmar to address bad practice | Bahasa Indonesia
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Indigenous peoples: |
Climate change and Meratus Rituals
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Forests: |
Is the forestry ministry serious about the
legality standard?
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Agriculture: |
Poverty and the price of rice
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Agrarian reform: |
Another year spent waiting
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West Papua: |
Multinational corporations lining up to profit from West Papua's resources
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Mining: |
MSM mine: community opposition continues as investor backs out
Mining news in brief
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No. 75 November 2007
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DTE 75 PDF version |
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West Papua / forests: |
Oil palm plantations? Carbon credits? Papua's forests targeted
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palm oil: |
Palm oil industry launches PR campaign
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oil palm and Aceh: |
Aceh's golden crop?
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climate change: |
Peatlands and climate change
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Indigenous Peoples: |
Indonesia's First Indigenous Forestry Festival
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Bahasa Indonesia
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No. 74 August 2007
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DTE 74 PDF version |
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forests: |
Climate change,'Avoided Deforestation' and Indonesia
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Bahasa Indonesia
"RED": AWAS? - Laporan FPP dalam Bahasa Indonesia
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'Peoples Plantations': help or hindrance in tackling deforestation?
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WALHI calls for logging moratorium
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Indigenous Women |
Indigenous Women's workshop at AMAN Congress
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oil palm / women: |
The impacts of oil palm plantations on women
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oil palm: |
Indonesia and biofuel fever
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Interview: Government, business and communities
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CSR: |
CSR à la Jakarta
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No. 73 May 2007
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DTE 73 PDF version |
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FDI: |
New investment law is not pro-poor
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BP in West Papua: |
Tangguh - adapting to the West Papuan context?
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oil palm: |
Land and prosperity - notes from Talang Nangka village
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forests: |
The Indonesian Timber Legality Verification Standard: words are not enough
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pulp: |
CSOs take a stand on pulp
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mining: |
Newmont case verdict - blow for communities and environment
Strikes and book launch keep Freeport-Rio Tinto in the news
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indigenous peoples: |
AMAN Congress III: towards democracy, prosperity and autonomy
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No. 72 March 2007
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DTE 72 PDF version |
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oil palm: |
Pressure mounts against EU biofuel targets
A report from the RSPO
Smallholders and the RSPO
Interview: Thoughts on the RSPO
Kampuh villagers want a fair deal
Dayak villagers succeed in fining oil palm company
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mining: |
North Sulawesi confronts Jakarta over MSM gold mine plans
Changes in mining laws to come into force in 2007 |
energy: |
A nuclear future?
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land: |
Agrarian Reform: is it really pro-poor?
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East Java mudflow: |
Sidoardjo mud keeps flowing
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CGI creditor group disbanded
World Bank fails the poor
Call for ban on GM trees
Plans for 3 more pulp & paper plants
BP's Tangguh LNG project
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No. 71 November 2006
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DTE 71 PDF version
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East Java mudflow: |
East Java mudflow disaster
Disaster tourism in Sidoardjo
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Bahasa Indonesia
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oil palm / energy: |
Palm oil is not green
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indigenous peoples: |
Oil palm and the United Nations
SBY on Indonesia's Indigenous Peoples |
forests: |
Indonesia's Forestry Congress IV: hope and reality
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pulp and paper: |
No chip mill without wood
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mining: |
Freeport investor quits
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In brief: |
Worst forest fires since 1997
Special autonomy fails on poverty in Papua
Call for ban on GM trees
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No. 70 August 2006
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DTE 70 PDF version
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Mining: |
Community struggle against gold mine plans
No Newmont clean-up for Buyat Bay
Rio Tinto in new Sulawesi nickel project
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Indigenous peoples: |
Indigenous groups hail declaration breakthrough
IFI standards fail on indigenous rights | Bahasa Indonesia
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Indigenous peoples/ forests: |
A portrait of indigenous forest management in Sungai Utik
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Forests: |
Forest policy and Indonesia's natural resources crisis: a view from Jakarta
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Java earthquake |
Fifty-nine seconds in a 5.9 Richter scale earthquake
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No. 69 May 2006
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DTE 69 PDF version
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Foreign direct investment: |
A recipe for injustice
FDI: still inflicting damage on communities
Protests against Newmont in West Nusa Tenggara
The Tangguh gas project: Indonesia's biggest FDI project
Chinese company plans massive timber operation in Papua
Freeport - Rio Tinto: new reports expose impacts
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oil palm/energy: |
Biodiesel and the expansion of oil palm plantations |
forests/ indigenous rights: |
The future for Papuan forests
Aceh's forests under more pressure
Certification controversy
FLEGT: merely political rhetoric?
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Letters to DTE: |
Freeport/Rio Tinto payments to military and police
Risks for Submarine Tailings Disposal (STD) in Indonesia revisited
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In brief: |
New Mentawai indigenous organisation
More World Bank loans for Indonesia - NGOs demand cancellation
UK recycled waste dumped in Jakarta
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No. 68 February 2006
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DTE 68 PDF version
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Oil palm: |
Communities challenge palm oil industry promises of sustainability
The borders megaproject
From Singapore to West Kalimantan
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Bahasa Indonesia
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West Papua resources: |
Illegal military payments by Freeport/Rio Tinto
ADB to fund BP's Tangguh gas project |
Bahasa Indonesia
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Mining: |
New mine will mean more marine pollution in Sulawesi
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Aceh: |
A year after the disaster
Aceh's forests
Reconstruction of Aceh Land Administration System (RALAS)
KAU - "government has no sense of urgency"
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Indigenous peoples/ forests: |
Struggle against logging goes on in Mentawai
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Coastal communities: |
The challenge of making a living
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Pulp: |
One step forward, two steps back
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Obituary: |
In memory of inspirational indigenous leader, Abah Nawi
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No. 67 November 2005
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DTE 67 PDF version
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Mining: |
Newmont called to account
Call for new law to be delayed
Mass protests challenge Inco
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Energy: |
Energy policy ignores renewables
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Pulp: |
New chip mill, South Kalimantan
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Forests: |
Legal or sustainable?
Forest fires
Forests Update
Kalimantan groups call for sustainable development
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Development: |
MDGs: hopes or hallucination?
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Book Review: |
The Risks we Run
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Police open fire on farmers in Lombok
Regulations respect indigenous management
CDC sells of plantations to Cargill
Parliament ratifies UN covenants
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No. 66 August 2005
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DTE 66 PDF version
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Oil palm: |
Oil palm expansion will bring more conflicts
Indigenous peoples oppose oil palm in West Kalimantan
Gunung Niut - a community rejects oil palm plantations
The RSPO as a tool in the struggle for justice
The RSPO - towards "sustainable palm oil"? - interview
Pesticide use in oil palm plantations
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Post-tsunami Aceh: |
Timber demand soars, fatal floods hit
AMAN presents concerns to UN Permanent Forum
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Land: |
New land regulation will inflict misery
Farmers arrested in Perhutani land dispute, East Java
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Mining: |
Constitutional Court bows to pro-mining pressure
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In brief: |
Land of peace for Papua - a basis for rebuilding Papua
Infrastructure projects for private sector investment
Nuclear power by 2017
Freeport payments report
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No. 65 May 2005
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West Papua focus |
DTE 65 PDF version
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Tangguh gas project: |
Tangguh - ignoring the reality
Indigenous communities speak out on Tangguh
International concern: a letter to BP
Tangguh project update 2005
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Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
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Forests: |
Targeting illegal logging in West Papua
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Indigenous resources: |
AMAN in West Papua
Military base for Wasur National Park
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Bahasa Indonesia
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In brief: |
Indonesian government attempt to block solidarity meeting
new UK campaign launched
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Regular issues
Mining: |
Legal challenge to mining in protected forests
Rio Tinto closes Kelian mine - history of
human rights abuses
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No. 64 March 2005
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DTE 64 PDF version
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Quake-tsunami focus |
After the tsunami:
what next for devastated communities?
Community-centred reconstruction needed
Give the people of Aceh the right to rebuild their territory themselves
Fishing communities
Relocation camps: a report from Aceh
Rehabilitating mangroves
The impact on women
After the tsunami: more disastrous debts?
Indonesia's 'odious' arms debt to the UK
Letter from Banda Aceh
Obituary: Pak Keuchik Jailani
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No. 63 November 2004
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DTE 63 PDF version
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Women: |
Women, land and natural resources
Ngata Toro: women in customary decision-making system
Women and Mining Conference demands justice for women
Non-existence within existence:
a case study of the excessive burden placed on women peasants in two villages in the Halimun Ecosystem
Yosepha Alomang -
a Papuan woman fighting for human and environmental rights
Resources |
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Mining:
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New pollution study corners Newmont
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Aceh: |
Bestari Raden sentenced
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Indigenous Peoples/ plantations:
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Melayu farmers' long struggle for land rights
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oil palm:
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Sustainable palm oil: mission impossible?
Plantations: fortune of misfortune?
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In brief:
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Munir poisoned
West Papua military raids
NGOs set targets
President promises clamp-down on illegal logging
Hasan-style profits?
Merapi Park campaign
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No. 62 August 2004
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DTE 62 PDF version
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Aceh/forests: |
Ladia Galaska road network:
construction continues, controversy rages
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Forests:
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Illegal logging - defining legality, undermining rights
Forest fires
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Pulp: |
NGOs oppose S. Kalimantan mill
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Land:
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New plantation law
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Conservation:
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Indonesian CSOs slam privatisation
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GM agriculture:
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Indonesia to sign biosafety protocol
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Politics:
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When the elections are over...
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Economy:
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CGI mid-term review
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In brief:
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Community holds Newmont to account
Parliament approves mining in protected forests
Free the Rampa Fisherfolk, South Kalimantan
TNI to stop guarding vital projects
New US West Papua Action Network
NGOS demand World Bank loan audit
Toro win UNDP recognition
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No. 61 May 2004
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DTE 61 PDF version |
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Elections: |
Political parties disregard rights, environment and sustainable development Candidates sign political contract with AMAN
Aceh and West Papua |
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Land:
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Flores eviction protest ends in bloodshed
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Mining: |
Mining in protected forests - government gives way
More deaths at Java gold mine
Protesters blockade Australian coal mine
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Aceh/Indigenous rights:
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Indigenous activist arrested
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Dams:
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Jatigede dam campaign gains momentum
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Forests:
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Forests in transition
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In brief:
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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
Questionnaire results
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No. 60 February 2004
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Mining: |
One dead at Newcrest Halmahera mine |
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West Papua/gas:
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BP & Tangguh: what hope for human rights?
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Land: |
Land poverty: no reforms in sight
Letter to Perhutani
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Indigenous Peoples:
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Indigenous Peoples and human rights
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Forests:
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BRIK: a flawed approach
Plantations
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Bahasa Indonesia
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In brief:
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Fatal chemical explosion, East Java
WALHI fights Ladia Galaska road in court
NGOs demand ratification of international rights conventions
Archbishop Tutu calls on UN to act on West Papua
GEF policies on protected areas out of date
Central Java nuclear project revived
Kotopanjang campaign
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No. 59 November 2003
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Mining: |
Fatal collapse at Freeport/Rio Tinto West Papua mine |
Bahasa Indonesia |
Indigenous peoples:
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Second AMAN Congress Resolution
Interview: AMAN and the Congress
Protected areas - gains at the WPC
PAMA PUJA - new organisation on Java
Interview: Indigenous peoples on Java
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Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
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Dams: |
West Java mega-dam looms |
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Forests:
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Bukit Lawang: natural disaster or ecoterrorism?
Questions over stepwise certification
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In brief: |
Further blow to draft NRM bill
Bulukumba protest
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No. 58 August 2003
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Aceh: |
War and food security in Aceh
Arms embargo campaign |
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Mining:
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All-out campaign to stop mining in protected forests
Indigenous people's lawsuit fails
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Pulp: |
More protests against TPL mill |
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Forests:
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International concerns over illegal logging dominate forest policy |
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Indigenous rights: |
Interview: Indigenous rights in West Kalimantan
Indigenous women's workshops |
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Coastal communities: |
Shrimp business destroys mangroves and livelihoods |
Bahasa Indonesia |
In brief: |
Two dead in Lonsum plantation dispute
World Bank pollution warning
IFC invests in more oil palm
Rio Tinto and BP to sell KPC coal mine
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No. 57 May 2003
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Mining: |
Military protection funds exposed
Rio Tinto blasted on 3 continents |
Bahasa Indonesia
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West Papua / gas:
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More doubts over BP's Tangguh gas
project |
Bahasa Indonesia
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Indigenous rights:
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Indigenous Peoples suspend meeting
AMAN protests forced evictions
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Rights/ forests:
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Suspend FSC certification, says report
Forests update
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Aid:
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Indonesian NGOs reject funding in Iraq protest |
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Conservation & rights:
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Controversy over shooting in
Komodo National Park |
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Natural resources:
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MPR's Nov. 2001 decree under threat |
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In brief: |
Earth Day protests against TPL Sumatra pulp plant
Nuclear power plant for Madura?
Malaysian logging tycoon arrested
Monsanto GM cotton furore
Acehnese activist hunted, civil society squeezed |
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No. 56 February 2003
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Pulp: |
Thousands protest reopening of Indorayon pulp plant
S. Kalimantan pulp plant to go ahead despite
protests
Pulp companies and human rights abuses:
Human Rights Watch report |
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia |
Forests: |
Stop logging now!
Report: Most 'legal' logging is 'illegal'
Fatal disasters linked to deforestation
Activist jailed for forest protest |
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia |
Oil & gas:
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Sulawesi targeted for exploitation
New oil and gas investment stalled
ExxonMobil in Aceh
BP and Pertamina in safety row |
Bahasa Indonesia
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Mining:
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Women suffer worst impacts of mining -
cases from Indonesia
Rio Tinto: practise what you preach!
Mining in forests, are community protesters terrorists?
Stop mining and logging in South Kalimantan's forests!
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Dams:
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Villagers and PT PLN in Riam Kanan dam dispute |
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In brief: |
NGO to sue Singapore over sand imports
Transmigration slow to reform
Taratak gets rights award
ARuPA films
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No. 55 November 2002
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Editorial: |
After Bali |
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Forests: |
The logging of West Papua
Wonosobo Perda to be cancelled Forest Fires
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Bahasa Indonesia |
Mining/West Papua:
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Freeport killings spark clamp-down |
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Mining:
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Green light for mining in forests
Dayak court action vs PT IMK
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Gas/West Papua:
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A visit to BP's Tangguh project |
Bahasa Indonesia |
Land:
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Peasants demand right to livelihood
Perhutani violence in Blora & Banten |
Bahasa Indonesia |
Oil palm:
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CDC conflict, West Kalimantan
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Bahasa Indonesia |
Protected Areas:
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Lore Lindu land claims result in deaths
Aceh pushes Leuser road plan
Bank stops Kerinci funding
Merapi park opened despite protests |
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In brief: |
Kalimantan border oil palm?
North Sumatra trawler protest
Rio + 10: minister accused of lying
Landmark rights decision in Unocal case
Nuclear plan resurrected
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No. 53-54 August 2002
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Mining: |
No mining in the forests!
Sulawesi communities reject Rio Tinto's CPM mine
International mining workshop, Bali
Bali PrepCom ends without agreement, NGOs walk out
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West Papua / Gas: |
NGOs call for Tangguh moratorium
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Bahasa Indonesia |
Gas/Aceh:
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ExxonMobil plays "terrorist" card |
Bahasa Indonesia |
Forests:
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Indonesia-UK MoU on illegal logging
FLEGT, log export ban
Fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan
Legal action on forest fires
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Pulp: |
Sumatra rayon mill to move to China, pulp mill to reopen |
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Indigenous rights:
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Fighting for the forest in Riau |
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In brief: |
Kotopanjang dam victims to get compensation? World Bank draft forest policy slammed Peasants' rights eroded by IFI policies Moronene people evicted
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Forests, People and Rights A DTE special report June 2002
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contents and acknowlegements
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Part I: |
Forests, people and rights |
Bahasa Indonesia |
Part II: |
Forest reforms in the post-Suharto era |
Bahasa Indonesia |
Part III: |
Community forest management: the way forward |
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No. 52 February 2002
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Land: |
Stop human rights violations against peasant farmers!
Banten farmers arrested and beaten The new MPR decree on agrarian reform
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West Papua / Gas: |
BP and the Tangguh test |
Bahasa Indonesia |
Mining: |
BP's coal interest: Kaltim Prima
Brimob shooting at Aurora mine
Rio Tinto's Kelian mine blockaded
Mining the Forests
Inco Urgent Action
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Aceh: |
Exxon Mobil under fire |
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Forests:
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No sign of much needed reform
Oil palm action
Threats to Gunung Leuser
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Pulp: |
APP and debt-financed forest destruction |
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In brief: |
West Papua will not receive Freeport's corporate tax Transmigration policy review EU rejects Indonesian shrimp imports Five large dams for Bengkulu Bapedal merger protests
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Book review:
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ICG: Natural Resources and Law Enforcement |
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No. 51
November 2001
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Coastal resources: |
Communities hit hard by fishing industry
The shrimp industry
Sand-mining destroys resources |
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New Government: |
Megawati and her new ministers |
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Forests: |
Deforestation blamed for Nias tragedy
FLEG conference, log export ban
FSC certification suspended
Oil Palm for Kalimantan |
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia |
Indigenous Peoples:
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Adat and the forests
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Bahasa Indonesia |
Decentralisation:
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Future uncertain
Special Autonomy for Aceh and West Papua
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Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia |
Mining:
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Court orders Freeport to clean up |
Bahasa Indonesia |
GM crops:
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Court action fails, protests continue |
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In brief: |
Stop Exxon Mobil! Free Kautsar! Aceh Fund West Papua Solidarity groups appeal to UN New oil and gas law Radioactive waste dumping
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No. 50 August 2001
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Aceh: |
Lawsuit accuses Exxon Mobil
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Bahasa Indonesia |
Editorial: |
Indonesia and Down to Earth
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West Papua: |
BP's Tangguh project increases tension
Mamberamo people oppose dam |
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia |
Forests: |
The fight against illegal logging
Fires spread haze over borders
Business as usual in the Mentawais |
Bahasa Indonesia |
Land / Oil palm:
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CDC projects criticised over impacts
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Bahasa Indonesia |
Mining:
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Communities and companies
Manado and London meetings
PT KEM agreement
Inco protest
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Land: |
NSPU resettles Aceh refugees
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GM crops: |
Court action on Monsanto cotton
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Messages: |
Messages to mark our 50th edition...
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No. 49
May 2001
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Central Kalimantan: |
Behind the violence
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Bahasa Indonesia |
Farming / land: |
GM agriculture through the back door
IFIs & companies push GM crops
The organic movement |
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia |
Forests: |
Debt, poverty and greed fuel destruction
Logging moratorium
Export credit finances destruction
Timber plantations: backing a loser |
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West Papua: |
Papuans reject autonomy, call Freeport to account
Mega-projects: Mamberamo, Tangguh |
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Land / Oil palm:
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Oil palm investments opposed
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Oil and gas:
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Aceh: Exxon Mobil shuts down
Security company called in by Caltex in Riau
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Bahasa Indonesia Bahasa Indonesia |
In brief: |
Special autonomy delayed International STD meeting in Sulawesi Communities oppose new Rio Tinto Sulawesi mine Refugees starving in Aceh
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No. 48
February 2001
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Indigenous peoples:
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Moronene forced out of national park
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Regional autonomy: |
Confusion and delay
WALHI and regional autonomy |
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Mining:
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Meru Betiri National Park threat
German company to build smelter
Newmont and WALHI in poisoning row
Indigenous small-scale mining under threat |
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Land: |
Reform, farmers and action in Java |
Bahasa Indonesia |
Pulp and Paper:
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Heading for trouble
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Bahasa Indonesia |
Oil and gas:
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Rights and environmental disputes flare
Oil and globalisation
Tangguh in West Papua
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Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
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In brief: |
CIFOR researcher's body in Aceh mass grave 2000: S. Kalimantan's year of destruction German investment in coal Riau farmers threat to take over plantation land Bauxite mine in 2003
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To see full version of Indorayon's last gasp?, a DTE article for Inside Indonesia Jan-Mar 2001
click here.
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No. 47
November 2000
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Aceh:
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Ecological war zone
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Bahasa Indonesia |
Mining: |
Rio Tinto:blockades and strikes
WALHI opposes PT CPM
Newmont under siege
Indigenous miners evicted
Mining in protected forests |
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Indonesia
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West Papua:
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Resource exploitation continues
Freeport: still getting away with it |
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Oil and gas: |
Police fire on Unocal protesters
Protests at Caltex |
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Oil palm:
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Villagers shot, one killed in Sosa
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In brief: |
Forestry conversion permits, UK's forestry grant NGOs criticise World Bank Ammonia poisoning, New oil refineries
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No. 46
August 2000
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Special Issue on regional autonomy
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Regional autonomy, communities and natural resources
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Bahasa Indonesia
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What is regional autonomy?
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Regional autonomy from Suharto to Wahid
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Regional autonomy, political will and the economy
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Regional autonomy and the IFIs
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Foreign investment and regional autonomy
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Democracy, control and natural resources
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The role of the military
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The state of local democracy
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Indigenous communities and democratic control
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Case studies: East and West Kalimantan
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Points for campaigning
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No. 45
May 2000
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Coastal Communities:
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Coastal resources in crisis
Campaign to protect divers
Lampung shrimp violence
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Mining: |
Contracts and communities
Newmont mine closure overruled
Inco contract questioned
Arrests at Aurora mine sites |
Bahasa Indonesia
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Regional autonomy:
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A workable solution?
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Forests: |
Communities confront loggers
Fires darken skies
Kutai under siege
New Kalimantan mega-project will not proceed |
Bahasa Indonesia
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Pulp:
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Displaced villagers win back land
Indorayon closure undecided
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West Papua: |
Independence movement gains momentum
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Oil and gas:
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NGOs accuse Unocal
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In brief: |
NGOs and the US, Mobil, Rio Tinto,
Nipah dam, West Papua transmigration
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No. 44
February 2000
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Editorial:
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Foreign investment and ecological justice
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Forests: |
Spotlight on Indonesia's forests
Illegal log exports from Mentawais
Loggers rush to strip Siberut
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Pulp: |
Environment minister recommends Indorayon closure
Protests at PT TEL |
Bahasa Indonesia
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Communal conflict: |
Transmigrants and refugees
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Mining: |
No more mining!
Newmont under fire
Mining companies wait and see
New publication
Mining briefs
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Bahasa Indonesia
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West Papua: |
Independence & exploitation
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Oil palm: |
Contamination hits palm oil exports
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Toxic imports: |
Action on Singapore mud imports
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No. 43
November 1999
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New Government:
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Tough challenges ahead
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Forests: |
New act thwarts reformers
WALHI sues government over mega-project Forest fires burn again
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West Papua: |
The demand for independence
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Indigenous Peoples: |
Demands for change
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Mining: |
Dayaks reoccupy mines in Aurora concession
Coal blight in South Kalimantan Rio Tinto in South Sulawesi
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Land & agriculture: |
Call for agrarian reform Advance of the biotech giants
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Marine: |
New fisherfolk network takes action
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East Timor: |
After the terror
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Special Issue on AMAN
October 1999 |
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Indonesia's Indigenous Peoples form new alliance
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Congress statement
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AMAN's aims and organisation
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Aceh's indigenous coastal communities
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Plan of action
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Two tales from Sumatra
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Women's issues
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West Papua
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Talking to politicians
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Views of the Congress
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NGO support
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Indigenous dilemmas
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No. 42
August 1999
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East Timor:
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The opportunity for a sustainable future
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Elections: |
Parties lack environmental, rights commitment
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Forests: |
Forestry Act fiercely opposed
Sumatra pulp plant protestors fight on
Kalimantan mega-project reinvented
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Bahasa Indonesia Bahasa Indonesia
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Indigenous: |
Logging and oil palm threat to Siberut
Yamdena Islanders continue battle against logging
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Plantations: |
Dayaks charged in oil palm dispute
More oil palm for West Papua |
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Book review: |
Transforming the Indonesian Uplands
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Economy: |
Alarm over rising debt
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New Report: |
INCO in Indonesia
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No. 41
May 1999
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Pulp:
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Violence escalates at Indorayon
pulp plant
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Ethnic violence: |
Communal clashes, military terror, refugees...
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Indigenous: |
Moronene evicted from Sulawesi park
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Mining: |
Dayaks struggle against Barito Pacific
Sumatra gold mine afflicts local community
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'Alternatives' Supplement: |
An alternative development strategy
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Bahasa Indonesia |
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AMAN: new indigenous voice
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Progress on indigenous rights: the Krui and the Katu
Parcipative community mapping
Farmers call for agrarian justice
Development debt: the need for a total rethink
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No. 40
February 1999
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Land:
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The struggle for land
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Suharto family land holdings exposed
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Food Crisis: |
Fertiliser costs threaten food security
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West Papua: |
National Dialogue: to what end?
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Bahasa Indonesia
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The Freeport/Rio Tinto mine: a nice little earner
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Forests: |
Reforms bring few gains
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Aceh, Enggano Island
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Oil and Gas: |
Mobil on the defensive
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Shrimp industry: |
Farmers victimised in Lampung conflict
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No. 39
November 1998
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Oil and gas:
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Mobil Oil and human rights abuse in Aceh |
Bahasa Indonesia
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Mining: |
Mining giants benefit from crisis
More trouble for Freeport
First Newcrest mine in Indonesia
More pollution from Newmont Minahasa
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Bahasa Indonesia
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Business: |
Corruption, Collusion and Nepotism
The food crisis
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Poverty: |
The food crisis
Fields and forests raided
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Land: |
Students join farmers to demand rights
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Forests: |
Bank report on chaos at Kalimantan project
Deadlock over Indorayon
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Transmigration: |
No end in sight
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Appeal: |
Appeal for mapping equipment
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Dams: |
Displaced villagers demand rights
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No. 38
August 1998
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Reform:
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Towards ecological justice in Indonesia
Charter for Change
National and local demands
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Economic crisis: |
Debt, poverty and the IMF
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West Papua: |
West Papua demands Freedom
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Land: |
Farmers reclaim stolen land
United Federation of Indonesian Farmers |
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Forests: |
Bob Hasan's fall from favour
Stop the Kalimantan Mega-project!
After the fires - more fires?
Protestors stop Indorayon pulp mill
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Mining: |
Rio Tinto under pressure
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Fisheries: |
Fisherfolk demand justice |
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No. 37
May 1998
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Forest fires:
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East Kalimantan burns and starves |
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Economic crisis: |
Food crisis bites deeper
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Politics: |
The cabinet of cronies
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Mining: |
Rio Tinto campaign launched
Haruku and Gag Island contracts approved
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West Papua: |
Famine kills thousands, military make things worse More development looms for West Papua
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Forests: |
Mega-project under fire
Apkindo for the chop
Finnish pulp project audited
Bob Hasan advising World Bank on forestry
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National Parks: |
EU-funded Leuser project slammed
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Dams: |
ADB drowns a culture
Mamberamo mega-project |
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No. 36
February 1998
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Economic crisis:
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Economic crisis takes heavy toll on Indonesia's poor
Timber empires collapsing |
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Drought & famine: |
Famine grips West Papua
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Indigenous peoples: |
The push for indigenous rights
Katu people refuse to move from national park
A Dayak's journey home |
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Forests: |
Aftermath of the fires
Finnish pulp investment in Riau |
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Mining: |
Struggles over gold and coal
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Plantations: |
Oil palm expands, farmers lose out |
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No. 35
November 1997
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Forests:
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Ecological Hooliganism in East Kalimantan |
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Mining: |
Freeport/Rio Tinto: more expansion, more unrest
NGOs take Newmont to task in Sulawesi
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Transmigration: |
A million hectares for West Papua |
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Dams: |
Mega-disaster for Mamberamo
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Special 'Fires'
Supplement: |
Responsibility rests with Suharto
The trail of destruction: a fires chronology
The companies accused
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