While the government claims that the US$9 billion or so saved from the recent fuel (BBM) subsidy cuts will be allocated to much needed infrastructure, thereby compensating the poor who will bear the brunt high inflation, critics say most of the planned projects – new ports, dams, airports, industrial parks and roads – will primarily benefit big
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November 2014
Environmental and community activists say that the 32-kilometre long giant sea wall being built off Jakarta’s north coast to protect the capital from flooding by high tides, which will also include a massive land reclamation project and the building of 17 artificial islands, will spell almost certain ecological disaster for Jakarta which is curr
Lawmaker: Who says we’re getting paid for doing nothing! I’m working don’t you know!
Man: My forefathers were a people of the sea...
October 2014
A month after Indonesia ratified the Asean Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution – supposedly a turning point in ending the annual haze problems that create havoc in Indonesia and neighboring Singapore and Malaysia – massive forest fires are again generating thick haze in Riau and other parts of Sumatra and Kalimantan.
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Kid: Dad, I’m really confused... what’s important is we can still eat stir fried enceng gondok and tempe bongkrek (cheap sources of food for the poor)
Package, package, package... Bag reads paket sembako (basic goods package)
Kid: This is a republic of the people, by the people, for...
Regional elections 2005-2014, indirect regional elections
September 2014
Kid: Where’s your ethics and self-respect?
Sign reads: Overcoming problems without problems – slogan of the state-owned pawnshop company Perum Pegadaian