Slash and burn farming is generating huge amounts of pollution
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Indonesia Slams Australia for Spying on Trade Talks
Foreign Minister asks how shrimp exports could be vital to national security
Mount Kelud Erupts: Indonesia’s Most Populated Island Covered in Ash
The major eruption blanketed the island of Java in ash, forcing the evacuation of more than a hundred thousand people
Gunmen Target Burmese MP in Drive-By Shooting in Malaysia
Burma’s Buddhist-Muslim violence is spreading to other parts of Southeast Asia
Indonesian Volcano Eruption Kills 14
The eruption was the mountain’s deadliest in recent times
Hong Kong Government Could Be Sued Over Maid Abuses, Says Top Rights Lawyer
The man who advised NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden calls it a clear case
Hong Kong Employer May Have Tortured Second Indonesian Maid
Police investigation and public protests under way
Beaten and Exploited, Indonesian Maids Are Hong Kong’s ‘Modern-Day Slaves’
Another case of brutal mistreatment points to a systemic failure to protect domestic workers
Indonesian Volcano Covers Surrounding Communities in World of Ash
Mount Sinabung erupted again Saturday, Feb. 1 in a deadly explosion that killed at least 14. The a volcano, located on western island of Sumatra, had been spewing ash and smoke for the past week, forcing some 22,000 people from …
So Awk: Abbott Adviser Calls Indonesian Foreign Minister a ‘1970s Filipino Porn Star’
Probably not the wisest thing to say in light of rapidly deteriorating relations between Indonesia and Australia
Palm Oil Is Killing the Sumatran Tiger
There are only 400 Sumatran tigers left in the world because most of their habitat has been eaten up by oil-palm plantations in just two years
East Timorese Sell Their Coffee to Starbucks, Starve at Home
But the blame doesn’t lie on foreign multinationals. The problems are systemic and rooted in the fledgling nation’s woeful infrastructure.
Top Indonesian ‘Anticorruption’ Judge Is Arrested for Graft
Top court official who once said that those convicted of corruption should have their fingers amputated has himself been arrested and charged with corruption