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    Jakarta Water Privatization Today: Dried Water Tap or Change
    March 2012
    By Irfan Zamzami, Amrta Institute for Water Literacy

    With protests, rallies and petitions, the message from the public has been clear: the water service in Jakarta should be re-municipalised, to save the water system from financial ruin and the water service from a profit-oriented private sector.

    As authoritarian China loses luster, TNCs flirt with democratic Indonesia and Brazil
    June 2011
    Walden Bello

    Make way China! Here come Brazil and Indonesia as new kids on the block for transnational corporations' investments in their global search for cheap labour and social stability.

    Video: Water Union Rally in Jakarta - December 2010
    March 2011

    In December 2010, hundreds of water union workers in Jakarta (Indonesia) protested against the privatisation of water services in the city.

    Video: Through the Empty Tap - Water Privatisation in Jakarta
    March 2011

    The experience of water privatisation in Jakarta (Indonesia) shows that private investments are not the answer to fulfill the human right to water.

    Political Dynamics of Land-grabbing in Southeast Asia: Understanding Europe's Role
    Political Dynamics of Land-grabbing in Southeast Asia: Understanding Europe's Ro
    January 2011
    Jun Borras
    Jennifer Franco

    The European Union is a significant player in the widespread occurrence of land-grabbing in Southeast Asia; both through its corporate sector and public policies.

    Activists from across Asia explain how the EU’s free trade agenda affects them: (1) Indonesia and China
    October 2010

    At the Asia Europe People’s Forum in Brussels we interviewed some civil society activists from across Asia, to find out more about the damaging impacts of free trade agreements on the everyday lives of people in their countries.

    Carbon Trading - How it works and why it fails
    November 2009
    Tamra Gilbertson
     Oscar Reyes

    This accessible, well-researched book provides a devastating critique of both the theory and practice of carbon trading, which lie at the heart of global climate policy.

    Occasional Paper Series
    Land, Rural Social Movements and Democratisation in Indonesia
    June 2009
    TNI
     Dianto Bachriadi

    Although support from urban-based students and activists was important, the rural protest in Indonesia during President Suharto's regime was built on continued protest and organisation around land issues.

    REDD: Growing money on trees
    February 2008
    Oscar Reyes
    Deforestation is responsible for one-fifth of annual carbon emissions – more than the entire transport sector. Yet a new global scheme to ‘reduce deforestation’ could end up rewarding the companies and governments that cause it, writes Oscar Reyes.

    On the eve of last December’s UN...

    Suharto: an obituary
    January 2008
    John Gittings
    Obituary for Suharto, the former Indonesian dictator whose 30-year rule was based on ruthless repression, cronyism and manipulation of the world's rival superpowers

    The death of the former Indonesian president Suharto at the age of 86 reminds us that even the most stubborn of...

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