(Deutsch) Kurz belichtet

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German version

Posted on 05:58 AM in "In the Spotlight", Activities, Indonesia, East Timor, Publications, Society & Religion, SUARA magazine
Tags: Germany, Indonesia, East Timor, religion, SUARA magazine

Lapindo mud volcano in Sidoardjo

Suara No. 1/09, August 2009

by Marianne Klute

Translated into English by biofuelwatch, September 2009

The scale of the catastrophe becomes apparent only from the air: A layer of mud has covered sixteen villages, schools, rice paddies, even the motorway to Surabaya. More than 50,000 people who lived here until three years ago have lost everything. People continue to survive in tents. They see themselves as victims of Indonesia’s biggest environmental scandal.

End of May 2006: Lapindo Brantas, a company which ... read more

Posted on 09:51 PM in Disasters, Economy, Labor & Corruption, Human Rights, Indonesia, Mining, Publications, SUARA magazine
Tags: mining, Indonesia, disasters, land rights, Umwelt, economy and business

The Bakrie Group

Suara No. 1/09, August 2009

by Marianne Klute

Translated into English by biofuelwatch, September 2009

The Bakrie case offers an interesting insight into the intertwining of politics and business in Indonesia, a lesson to be learned about business practices in Indonesia, based on the exploitation of Indonesia’s valuable resources for the benefit of individuals and the lack of will to build a consolidated and responsible economy, and, last not least, provides data on the involvement of international capital in ... read more

Posted on 09:50 PM in Agro Fuels, Economy, Labor & Corruption, Indonesia, Mining, Publications, SUARA magazine
Tags: Asian crisis, Indonesia, Kohleabbau, palm oil, plantations, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Umwelt, economy and business

Bakrie Sumatera Plantations

Suara No. 1/09, August 2009

by Marianne Klute

Translated into English by biofuelwatch, September 2009

 

Case study: Bakrie and the attack on the village of Sei Kopas

All of the sudden the bulldozers return. They thunder across the fields and tear down whatever stands in their way. Farmers in their fields freeze in shock. Their rice harvest has been destroyed; young fruit trees have been uprooted. They are powerless against the machinery of the company Bakrie Sumatera Plantations and the hundreds ... read more

Posted on 09:49 PM in Agro Fuels, Economy, Labor & Corruption, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Environment & Climate, SUARA magazine
Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), Asian crisis, dictator Suharto, Indonesia, Kalimantan / Borneo, land rights, human rights, palm oil, Papua, plantations, Police, rain forest destruction, Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), Sumatra, Umwelt, economy and business

(Deutsch) Archiv der SUARA

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Posted on 07:57 AM in Indonesia, East Timor, Publications, SUARA magazine
Tags: Indonesien-Information (renamed SUARA), SUARA magazine

World market, climate change and the hypocrisy of the North

11th April 2008

 

Interview with Pantoro Tri Kuswardono (WALHI)

 

Pantoro Tri Kuswardono (Torry) has been working for a year as a climate campaigner with the Indonesian environmental organisation WALHI (Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia – Friends of the Earth Indonesia). Previously he worked for WALHI’s mining campaign. After completing his engineering degree at the Institute for Technology in Bandung, he spent seven years in one of the poorest parts of Indonesia, in West Timor. There he gained many experiences ... read more

Posted on 06:31 PM in Agro Fuels, Indonesia, Mining, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, SUARA magazine
Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), Indonesia, carbon, rain forest destruction, environment and climate

Pulp Factory Kiani Kertas in the limelight again

 

Watch Indonesia!, August 2005

Latest developments from Kalimantan

by Vinda Nairus and Marianne Klute

translated by Petra Stockmann and Christoph Assheuer

PT Kiani Kertas is in the headlines again – and had been so for years. Formerly, it belonged to the empire of timber baron Bob Hasan, one of Suharto’s buddies. Using state funds for his Kiani Kertas was one of the crimes for which Bob Hasan was eventually brought behind bars. Other Kiani Kertas headlines concerned the horrendous debts ... read more

Posted on 01:59 AM in Indonesia, Publications, Pulp & Paper, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, SUARA magazine
Tags: illegal logging, Indonesia, Kalimantan / Borneo, pulp and paper, Prabowo, rain forest destruction, environment and climate, economy and business

(Deutsch) Komnas HAM beschließt Zähne zu zeigen

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Posted on 09:50 AM in "In the Spotlight", Human Rights, Indonesia, Publications, SUARA magazine
Tags: 1965, Indonesia, judicial system, Komnas HAM, human rights, New Order, security sector, impunity, criminal prosecution, students, Tanjung Priok, crimes against humanity

(Deutsch) Lösung des Problems durch Umsiedlung?

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Posted on 09:25 AM in Indonesia, East Timor, Publications, State- & Nation-Building, Transitional Justice, SUARA magazine
Tags: refugees, violence, Indonesia, militias, East Timor, referendum 1999, security sector, transmigration, independence, United Nations, West Timor

US-East Timor agreement on ICC Article 98 detrimental to the protection of human rights

SUARA No 3/02, October 2002

by Anett Keller

In September 2002, East Timor was the 79th state to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. However, before the ratification the East Timorese leadership had already signed a bilateral agreement which exempts US citizens from the applicability of several clauses of the Statute.

„East Timor is uniquely placed to recognize the importance of an International Criminal Court. (…) We are resolute in our conviction that lasting peace can only ... read more

Posted on 04:09 PM in Human Rights, East Timor, Politics & Democracy, Publications, SUARA magazine
Tags: judicial system, human rights, East Timor, security sector, impunity, United Nations, USA, crimes against humanity, constitution, Xanana Gusmão