(Deutsch) HeidelbergCement – Negative Folgen des Baubooms

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Marhaen: An Indonesian Journal from 1980s West Berlin

Southeast Asia Library Group (SEALG), May 10, 2019

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In 2011 the Library of Southeast Asian Studies of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt acquired the library of the Stiftung Asienhaus (“Foundation Asia House”, then located in Essen, now in Cologne), an association of several German NGOs working on Asia. Among the many uncatalogued materials of this collection we recently found three volumes of a small Indonesian-language leftist journal named Marhaen: Analisa & Berita Bulanan.

This journal was published in ... read more

Posted on 02:33 AM in History & Overview, Indonesia, Publications, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: 1965, Germany, Indonesia, press freedom, Sukarno

(Deutsch) Ein neues Zuhause für indonesische Filme im Babylon Berlin

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(Deutsch) „Palmölkraftstoffe schnellstens verbieten“

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Posted on 11:15 PM in Agro Fuels, Indonesia, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), Germany, Indonesia, palm oil, plantations, rain forest destruction, Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), environment and climate, economy and business

(Deutsch) Mehr zertifiziertes Palmöl in den Tanks

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(Deutsch) Buchbesprechung: „was ich fordere, ist veränderung!“

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Fighting for the Next Generations

Heinrich Böll Stiftung – Southeast Asia, 28 January 2019

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For years, a citizens’ initiative in the Indonesian Kendeng Karst-Mountain has been fighting against the destruction of their livelihoods by cement factories, among others from a subsidiary of the German HeidelbergCement. The transnational solidarity network Save Kendeng supports the farmers from the Kendeng Mountains.

The plain between the volcano Muria and the Kendeng Karst in Central Java is a fertile agricultural area. As far as the eye can see, there are fields ... read more

Posted on 01:58 AM in Activities, Human Rights, Indonesia, Campaign, Land & Indigenous Rights, Mining, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: mining, Germany, HeidelbergCement, indigenous people, Indonesia, Kendeng, land rights, protest action, environment and climate, Wasser, economy and business, Zement, Zentraljava

Kendeng Movement: Speak Up for Mother Earth!

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 19 December 2018

https://th.boell.org/en/2018/12/19/kendeng-movement-speak-mother-earth

“What is called pest for farmers is not only plant hoppers, but also adverse policies”. This sentence was written on the shirt that Guno was wearing that night. Together with dozens of other people, he walked down the road in the North Kendeng Mountains. Passing through villages in Districts of Kayen and Tambakromo, Regency of Pati, Central Java. Black clothes wrapped around the bodies of village residents who marched carrying torches that night. They were doing ... read more

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Tags: mining, Germany, decentralization, HeidelbergCement, Indonesia, Kalimantan / Borneo, Kendeng, land rights, protest action, solidarity, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, environment and climate, Zentraljava

(Deutsch) »Ich will nur, dass du am Leben bist«

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Life, interrupted: Documents from Berlin

Jakarta Post, 10 December 2018

www.thejakartapost.com/life/2018/12/10/life-interrupted-documents-from-berlin.html

by Katrin Figge

When Pipit Rochijat Kartawidjaja came to West Berlin to study electrical engineering in the early 1970s, he found a city isolated by the Cold War and divided by a wall. It was home to all sorts of creative minds: musicians, artists and student activists.

Foreigners seemed to be strangely attracted to West Berlin, as its isolated status reflected their own state of mind of feeling like an outsider.

Pipit, however, quickly took ... read more

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