Countdown for Survival: Global groups make an urgent call to end deforestation and conserve the world’s forests during UN Climate Talks

08 June 2009

Bonn, Germany – A coalition of youth, environmental groups, NGOs, Indigenous Peoples organizations and women’s groups delivered a plea to negotiators asking them to ensure a strong climate deal and warning them that they will put our survival at risk if they do not act immediately to halt deforestation and the industrial logging of the world’s primary forests (forest degradation).[Signatories and statement below in NOTE 1] “Survival is not negotiable. The climate deal signed ... read more

Posted on 04:59 PM in Joint Press Releases & Statements, Indonesia, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
Tags: indigenous people, Indonesia, rain forest destruction, environment and climate, United Nations

(Bahasa Indonesia) Wisata Sejarah ke Haus Der Wannsee Konferenz di Jerman

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Indonesian version

Posted on 12:53 PM in Aceh, Human Rights, Indonesia, Publications, Transitional Justice, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: Aceh, violence, Indonesia, human rights, transitional justice, dealing with the past

(Bahasa Indonesia) Demokrasi dan HAM Indonesia di Humboldt

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Posted on 02:49 PM in democracy, Human Rights, Indonesia, Publications, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: Aceh, Indonesia, human rights, transitional justice

(Deutsch) FriEnt-Arbeitsgespräch Indonesien: Friedensentwicklung in Papua

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Posted on 10:40 PM in Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Papua, Publications, Regional Conflicts, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: peace process, Indonesia, conflict resolution, land rights, Papua, special autonomy, environment and climate

Call for the immediate release of WALHI’s activists

14th May, 2009

To the Chief of Police Forces of the Republic of Indonesia (Kapolri)General Bambang Hendraso Danuri Jl.Trinojoyo No.3 Kebayoran Baru – Jakarta Selatan Fax: +62-(21)-3925527 General Bambang Hendraso Danuri,

Watch Indonesia! is a Human Rights organization based in Berlin, Germany. We have received information that the police in Manado has arrested Berry Nahdian Furqon (Director of WALHI – Friends of the Earth Indonesia) and Erwin Usman (Head of WALHI’s Regional Department ). The aforementioned Indonesian citizens were arrested during a ... read more

Posted on 12:08 PM in Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch's Open Letters
Tags: mining, Indonesia, Police, protest action, Freedom of Expression, environment and climate

Reconciliation in Timor-Leste and the Role of the Media:

The Casa de Produção Audiovisual

East-Timor: How to Build a New Nation in Southeast Asia in the 21st Century?
Edited by Christine Cabasset-Semedo and Frédéric Durand
Carnet de l’Irasec / Occasional Paper n°9 – 2009, May 2009

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Post-independence Timor-Leste struggles to come to terms with its past, to improve the recent situation and to build up its future at the same time. These are enormous tasks which require a lot of attention from all actors involved: the national government, national ... read more

Posted on 03:43 AM in East Timor, Publications, Society & Religion, Transitional Justice, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: peace process, history and overview, East Timor, transitional justice, reconciliation

(Deutsch) Fälschungen und Originale

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German version

Posted on 07:04 AM in "In the Spotlight", Publications
Tags: Germany, Indonesia, corruption, administration

(Bahasa Indonesia) Hutan Tropis Dibagi Seperti “Kue” di Papua

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Posted on 03:48 PM in Agro Fuels, Indonesia, Papua, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: Indonesia, land rights, palm oil, Papua, plantations, rain forest destruction

(Bahasa Indonesia) Marianne Klute: Biochar Membahayakan Ekosistem

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Posted on 03:15 PM in Indonesia, Papua, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: biomass, Indonesia, carbon, Papua, rain forest destruction, environment and climate

‘Biochar’, a new big threat to people, land, and ecosystems

08 April 2009

Keep ‘biochar’ and soils out of carbon trading Caution urged against proposals for large scale use of charcoal in soils for climate change mitigation and soil reclamation

Adding charcoal (‘biochar’) to the soil has been proposed as a ‘climate change mitigation’ strategy and as a means of regenerating degraded land. Some even claim that this could sequester so much carbon that the Earth could return to pre-industrial carbon dioxide levels, i.e. that all the global warming caused ... read more

Posted on 03:56 PM in Joint Press Releases & Statements, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: biomass, carbon, land rights, rain forest destruction, environment and climate