JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — In Indonesia’s easternmost province, felled trees are stacked to block a road that leads to Papuan villages. On the Thai-Myanmar border, the Karen people have also made makeshift barricades and marked them with signs warning visitors away. Across the globe, the coronavirus pandemic has left indigenous peoples at particular risk because […]
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Aid to the Pacific is the least value for money
SYDNEY, 13 FEBRUARY 2020 (DEV POLICY.ORG)—Late last year the Australian government pulled all of its bilateral aid money out of Pakistan. Less well known is the fact that it also pulled a significant amount of aid funding from Indonesia. These funds were appropriated from up and running programs so that the money could be diverted […]
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Rising sea levels swallow up two Indonesian islands
JAKARTA, 29 JANUARY 2020 (REUTERS) — Two uninhabited islands in South Sumatra have vanished, and four are on the brink, thanks to rising sea levels. The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) says Betet Island and Gundul Island are now completely submerged because of climate change and are sitting one and three metres below sea […]
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Palau issues notice of violation to Indonesian Embassy over abandoned barge damaging reef
More than two months since a rusty barge that is believed to have originated in Indonesia was found adrift on Angaur reef in Palau, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Industries, and Commerce (MPIIC) said that it has already issued a notice of violation to the Indonesian Embassy. In a letter dated November 13, 2019, Public […]
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Palau gets training from Indonesia for Our Ocean Conference 2020
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia and representatives from different agencies of Palau came together at Palasia to participate in a training on “International Protocol and Security Management”. This training is meant to help Palau for the upcoming Our Ocean Conference to be held from 17-18 August 2020. The people who were chosen to […]
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West Papua’s in the grip of an ‘unprecedented crisis’ — is Australia turning a blind eye?
SYDNEY, 07 OCTOBER 2019 (ABC)—Tensions between Papuans and those ruling in Jakarta have simmered since it was formally incorporated into Indonesia from Dutch rule, following a disputed referendum in 1969. In 2003, the province was split in two — becoming West Papua and Papua — but the region is often still referred to collectively as […]