Indonesia's new omnibus law facilitates further capital expansion in the manufacturing and natural resources sectors while聽weakening the position of indigenous communities, farmers and fishers,聽writes Wagimanto.
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Six months after the first COVID-19 case was officially confirmed in Indonesia, it is clear that the government has failed to control the pandemic, write Rebecca Meckelburg and Charan Bal.听
Ed Aspinall reports the huge protests across Indonesia against the omnibus law, which have been violently dispersed by police, have resulted in more than 1000 arrests in Jakarta and surrounds聽alone.
Masses of Indonesian workers took strike action across the country on October 6鈥7 against a new employment law, writes Susan Price.
Mining-affected communities, NGOs and environmental activists are organising across the country to oppose Indonesia's new mining laws, which were secretly ratified during the COVID-19 lockdown, writes Pius Ginting.
Rights groups have slammed a last-minute decision by the Indonesian authorities to deny parole to five Papuan activists jailed on charges of treason over a peaceful protest in August last year, writes James Balowski.
While news reports on Indonesia鈥檚 response to COVID-19 refer to its lack of health infrastructure and trained medical staff, this does not reflect the real improvements in primary health care over two decades, writes Rebecca Meckelburg.
Indonesia, which does not have the infrastructure for small-scale, let alone, mass testing is covering up the figures on COVID-19 transmission, reports Rebecca Meckelburg.
While the stark reality of the global climate emergency struck home in Australia with its worst bushfire season, its neighbour Indonesia faced catastrophic floods and islands disappearing below the rising sea.听91自拍论坛's聽Peter Boyle聽interviewed Friends of the Earth Indonesia聽climate change campaigner聽Yuyun Harmono聽about the situation.
Surya Anta Ginting, the national spokesperson for the pro-independence Indonesian People's Front for West Papua 鈥 who along with five other Papuan activists is being held in Jakarta's notorious Salemba prison awaiting trial on treason charges 鈥 is reportedly seriously ill.
Anta's wife Lucia Fransisca told reporters that she visited him on November 29 and found that he and the other five Papuan detainees were ill and were not receiving proper medical treatment.
Indonesian People鈥檚 Front for West Papua (FRI-West Papua) spokesperson, Surya Anta was arrested in Jakarta on August 31 and accused of 鈥渟ubversive鈥 acts in relation to his advocacy for West Papua.
Free West Papua campaigners rallied in several cities on February 12.
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