The ocean-related challenges Indonesia faces include illegal fishing, human trafficking, drugs, oil spills and plastic pollution.
Human Rights
Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday passed into law an emergency decree on jobs and investment, eliminating legal uncertainty hanging over measures President Joko Widodo has pushed to spur investment in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.
Indonesia is the world’s biggest exporter of tin, and more than 90% of the country’s supply comes from the islands of Bangka and Belitung.
The government has now ordered a crackdown on public servants who flaunt their wealth in a country where corruption is endemic and the minimum wage is below $500 a month.
Organized by conservative Muslim alliance, demonstrators wave signs calling Israel the enemy of Islam, block Jakarta thoroughfare; some moderate groups also urge Israel’s exclusion.
When Elianu Hia shared a video on Facebook in January 2021, he never imagined that act would lead to him losing his home and small business in the Indonesian city of Padang, West Sumatra.
In Indonesia, legal liability has not stopped illegal, abandoned mines becoming deadly traps that now hold back the country’s future.
As Indonesia scales up construction of its new capital city, Indigenous people say they fear being displaced by the ambitious project.
Three women with machetes stood guard at their farm hilltop on Indonesia’s Wawonii Island, directing their blades towards the nickel miners working in the forest clearing below.
Two football club officials have been jailed over the Indonesia stadium crush last October which killed 135 people.
Now, a band of forest defenders, organized and led by women, is demonstrating that social forestry can stop this kind of destructive exploitation by engaging the communities whose lives are entwined with the health of the forest.
A new book on the revered Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, who died in 2006, delves inevitably into the brutality that hatched Suharto’s New Order.
In January, an Indonesian and a Chinese worker were killed during protests at the Gunbuster Nickel Industry smelter. The smelter, owned by China’s Jiangsu Delong Nickel Industry, is in Morowali district, Central Sulawesi.
In December 2022, in West Java, Indonesia, news that a domestic worker had been held captive, tortured, deprived of food and forced to work long hours circulated.
Rosma Karlina is the founder and Director of Suar Perempuan Lingkar Napza Nusantara (also called Womxn’s Voice), an advocacy and care organisation serving women and transwomen who use drugs.
In June 1994, the Indonesian government banned three news weeklies –Detik, Editor and Tempo — triggering a nationwide protest against the government’s repressive regulations against newspapers.
