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.”
The Mighty Eagle Foundation invited 600 wastepickers who live on landfills in the Bekasi surroundings 36 hours after the bombing at JW Marriot and Ritz Carlton Hotel. They had prepared for this event for a few weeks and despite the terrorist attacks 36 hours prior, they still went on with their plan. They have raised [...]
Join Indonesia Unite – Indonesia Bersatu on Facebook Some say that this bombing has been the wakeup call Indonesia needed to understand that there is a lot more work to do before people can relax and say the country is doing well. I must say, so far I have seen Indonesians rise like never before [...]
In a press conference held at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, SBY expressed his anger towards those behind the bombings. SBY said there is a possibility that the real target of the bombing was actually himself, considering that this has happened only shortly after the presidential election where SBY was leading by 61%. The result [...]
Today the Ritz Carlton and the Marriott Hotel in downtown Jakarta have been bombed. The office I am working out of is around 300 yards away. We went there and I was interviewed by a couple of people and was also able to take some close up footage until security told me to and everyone [...]
As I was still writing the post about explosions at the two hotels in Central Business District Jakarta, Mega Kuningan, I received a message that an explosion just happened also in Muara Angke. A car bomb just exploded outside a shopping complex in Muara Angke and killed 2 people. Muara Angke is famous for its [...]
Two explosions hit two international hotels in one of the fanciest part in the Central Business District in Jakarta. The police suspects that the two explosions at JW Marriot and Ritz Carlton hotel were caused by bombs but until now there has not been any confirmation about this. As this post is written, Indonesia’s news [...]
The past few days I have been traveling to some cities in Indonesia to visit landfills there. If you don’t understand what a landfill is, it is a piece of land or a site that is used for the disposal of waste material by burial. In many poor countries around the world, landfills are not [...]
Can one judge a country by its capital? Yes and no. In Managua, Nicaragua for example, you immediately get a feeling of being in a country that does not care about its people. A government only interested in its own members rather than people as a whole. A communist government not interested in fixing major [...]
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 [...]
For many years, Indonesia has faced forest fires during the dry season (May-September) which causes the choking haze in Kalimantan/ Borneo and Sumatra. Although the government has outlawed land-clearing by fire for agriculture, Indonesian farmers are still doing it as the enforcement of the law is still weak. The Malaysian government has offered help to [...]
