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Activists Oppose Reforestation Fund: Denpasar, Bali
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-23 19:25:13
Tens of environmental activists staged a peaceful rally here on Tuesday to protest against the Indonesian government`s plan to seek more money from developed nations ...
Bali Needs to Register Cultural Assets
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-23 19:22:18
Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik has asked the Balinese to protect their cultural assets by registering them as intellectual property. Indonesia recently became embroiled ...
Arid Land Becomes Flourishing Ecosystem: Wonogiri, Central Java
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-23 19:18:44
Amid reports of the environmentally costly exploitation of forest resources across the country, good news comes from a handful of villages in Java. Farmers in ...
Indonesia Behind in Development Goals
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-23 19:12:31
Indonesia will struggle to provide adequate sanitation and clean water to 72.5 percent of its population by 2015 in accordance with its commitment to achieving ...
Sekar Baruna Women's cooperative: Tulamben, Bali
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-23 19:05:28
Before Ni Nengah Dempi joined the Sekar Baruna women's cooperative in Tulamben, Karang Asem, it was a daily struggle to feed her five children. The ...
Global Tourism Competition and Bali
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-22 20:44:09
An economist said Bali will increasingly have to compete globally for tourists as countries promote their top destinations for a larger share of the lucrative ...
Stop Deforestation Before Seeking Forestry Funds
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-22 20:41:14
Environmental campaigners have praised the government's anti-deforestation scheme, which aims to lure international funding by protecting forests and helping reduce carbon emissions. However, they called ...
Women Writers in Indonesia
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-22 20:38:29
Meita Kasim, an up-and-coming Indonesian writer and Dorothea Rosa Herliany, a well known contemporary Indonesian poet stood out from the rest of the writers at ...
Indonesians in Focus: Wiwik Lo
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-22 20:34:20
The end of Ramadhan in mid-October is a time of reconciliation and the seeking of forgiveness. It is also an occasion for family gift giving. ...
Arabic Language in Contemporary Indonesian
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-22 20:28:42
One of the most often heard cliches is that Bahasa Indonesia is a simple language. I find this cliche is mainly used by those who ...
Preserving a Hairy Tradition: Maria, West Nusa Tenggara
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-22 20:25:45
While fewer Indonesian women are choosing to keep their hair long these days, women in one village in West Nusa Tenggara are hanging on to ...
Setting Priorities for the Environment in Indonesia
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-21 18:25:16
Most environmentalists would agree that Al Gore and the IPCC's winning the Nobel Peace Prize was also a triumph for environmental advocates working to put ...
A Safe Haven for Orangutans: Bali
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-21 18:22:03
If longtime orangutan expert and animal behaviorist Francine Neago gets her wish, Bali is set to become a world leader in orangutan and endangered species ...
Book Review: Theo Meier a Swiss Artist Under the Tropics
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-21 18:15:54
Theo Meier, like other artists such as Walter Spies and Rudolph Bonnet, found absolute paradise in Bali for the creative pursuits. In a recently published ...
Forest Preservation
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-21 18:11:09
The burden of forest preservation should be shared by all those that benefit from it, including the industrialized countries. Global warming has been a major ...
Kertalangu Cultural Village: Bali
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-21 18:09:03
A new recreational site - Kertalangu Cultural Village - is being developed in Kesiman Kertalangu, Padang Galak, East Denpasar, by hundreds of local farmers under ...
Climate Change Chief Wants Big Changes
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-20 02:13:41
Global warming talks in Bali in December need to make a breakthrough or international efforts to limit greenhouse gases could be in "deep trouble," the ...
Sumatran Rhino Population Increases: Lampung, Sumatra
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-19 18:39:41
Some rare good news for the threatened Sumatran rhinoceros has come out of Lampung. The Sumatran rhinoceros population in Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park and ...
PDI-P Autonomy Hindered: Bali
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-19 18:35:18
The decision of the Bali chapter of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) to leave up to the national party leadership the nomination of ...
Indonesians in Focus: Teuku Jacob
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-19 18:29:29
Indonesian paleontologist Teuku Jacob, who died Wednesday from a liver disease, was known for his firm scientific judgments, including his opinion on the "Hobbit" fossils ...
Wapauwe Mosque: Central Maluku
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-19 18:24:12
Wapauwe Mosque, built almost six centuries ago, is evidence of a long history of Islamic civilization in Maluku. Found in Kaitetu village in Leihitu district, ...
Metro Jakarta: West Java
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-19 18:20:09
The biggest irony about Jakarta is that people see it as a city of a thousand chances, yet chances are actually confined, especially in relation ...
Buleleng Poverty: Bali
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-18 19:27:11
It is difficult to determine whether the poverty alleviation program in Buleleng regency has been successful, with related agencies providing conflicting data on the number ...
New Courts to Fight Illegal Fishing
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-18 19:23:48
The government has established fishery courts in Jakarta, North Sumatra, West Kalimantan, North Sulawesi and Maluku. The five fishery courts will make use of a ...
Indonesia Easing Terms for Forestry CDM
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-18 19:19:27
The government has expressed fears that Indonesia might not be able to tap into the financial benefits from carbon trading in forestry projects, saying the ...
Children's Museum: Yogyakarta, Central Java
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-18 19:15:47
Long before it will officially open its doors at Yogyakarta Cultural Park, a new children's museum has been reaching out to the public with various ...
Indonesians in Focus: Muhammad Nehru Sagena
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-18 19:10:58
Who determines whether a family is living below the poverty line? If you ask residents of Binuang district in Polewali, West Sulawesi, they will probably ...
8 Killed in Tribal Clashes in Indonesia
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-17 22:05:09
Rival tribes armed with bows and arrows clashed Wednesday close to a U.S.-owned gold mine in Indonesia's Papua region, killing eight people, a company official ...
Biofuel Project Planned: Buleleng, Bali
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-17 22:02:40
Private investment company Bali Biofuel will cultivate castor oil plants (Jatropha curcas) in cooperation with farmers in 10 villages in Gerokgak district, in the north ...
Indonesians in Focus: Barreto Soares
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-10-17 21:59:54
We all scattered / we all ran in every direction. These two lines are scrawled in the notebook of the man with the guitar, one ...

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