Soekarno “We shake the heavens and rock the earth, that we may live not only on ¢2.50 a day.”
SBY “You may read of small radical groups. But mainstream Indo will always be moderate and tolerant.”
“Flight attendance, landing position!” I heard the pilot say through the loudspeaker. Flight 190 from Jakarta to Palangkaraya was in total silence. Passengers were holding their breath, keeping their worries to themselves and nervously looked out of the window. Nothing could be seen. We have just lowered our altitude, leaving the blue sky and the [...]
Along with Australia, the Indonesian government is hoping to turn a deforestation disaster in Borneo island into a global lesson on how to help locals save tropical forests. After the Amazon, the rainforest in Borneo is the next biggest center of efforts to fight deforestation which is the greatest contributor to global warming.
CARE Indonesia is [...]
The villagers living in the home of the Komodo Dragons are currently nervous and worried. For many years 4,000 villagers on the islands where the Komodo Dragons are had lived in peace with this closest-to-dinosaurs creatures. Only very recently the dragons seem to be more aggressive and have at least killed one 8-year old boy [...]
In the mountainous area of Sangkulirang forest in Kalimantan, Indonesia, conservationists found a new population of orang utans of approximately as many as 2,000. There are now about 50,000 – 60,000 orangutans in the world of which 90% can be found in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia.
Because most of the population of orangutans are [...]
