11:35am Mar 28, 2012
In commemorating world water day last week, Unicef and the World Health Organization announced that the millennium development goal on access to drinking water has been met ahead of time. A report issued by the two organizations found that between 1990 and 2010, more than two billion people gained access to improved drinking water. While encouraging, the figures are not yet cause for celebration. There are still 783 million people (or 11 percent of the global population) who still have no access to safe drinking water.
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The Story of the Hazardous and Toxic Waste in Indonesia
10:55am Mar 6, 2012
Customs officials at Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta observed white liquid coming out of 113 containers. Documents said the containers contained non-hazardous scrap metal, and officials contacted the Environment Ministry to confirm the contents. On Jan. 28, witnessed by Environment Balthasar Kambuaya, Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo and a flock of journalists, customs officials opened the suspected containers and found scrap metals “accompanied” by asphalt, sand, plastics and white liquid oozing out. The only documentation from the importing company was HHS.
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10:20am Feb 17, 2012
So, from my humble years of writing about REDD, I can only come up with three thoughts. It will grow larger and more interesting in the future, while growing more complicated too.
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Will High-Tech Tests Tell Us Something We Don’t Know?
10:45am Feb 6, 2012
Some say planting trees is also aimed at reducing air pollution caused by vehicles, by producing oxygen to counter smog. Basically, trees are being made into a solution for one of the city’s major problems. Instead, they have become one of the city’s biggest problems involving not just vehicles, but human lives.
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Getting Data From the Ministries is Mission Impossible
12:25pm Feb 4, 2012
It is, I suppose, to everyone's knowledge that it's so hard to get even the simplest data or facts from the government of Indonesia. I don't mean to generalize, but, I didn't just encounter one or two problems while gathering data and information on green issues.
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Illegal Wildlife Trading: A Never-Ending Saga
8:06am Jul 3, 2011
It is devastating. Even after more than five years, the Jatinegara Market in East Jakarta has not changed. It is so heartbreaking, seeing how easy it is for some people to sell live, endangered animals as pets, placed in cramped cages, to customers who most likely could only keep them alive for a few months.
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World Ocean Day : Oceans for People
8:57am Jun 13, 2011
A colleague sent me an e-mail last week mentioning that World Ocean Day is on June 8, three days after World Environment Day. This colleague then put this interesting opening in the message: “We tend to take oceans for granted while they provide us with food, jobs, clean air, and the building blocks of life-saving medicines that treat cancer. But there’s a problem; our oceans and coasts are not healthy. If we want to keep enjoying all that the oceans give us, we’ve got to give back in return.”
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Learning From Lapindo: Five Years On, What Now?
8:49am May 31, 2011
I was excited when my editor finally sent me out to cover the controversial Lusi, short for Lumpur Sidoarjo (Sidoarjo mudflow), for its five-year commemoration. I shy away from using the term anniversary because it seems inappropriate for a disaster that has affected the lives of at least 11,000 people and changed the face of this country forever.
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5:54pm May 10, 2011
As the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations, the government is really taking it all the way — and by that I’m referring to the huge banners lining main roads and government offices across Jakarta, the ban on heavy trucks using toll roads to ease traffic, the heavy security (as usual) and, again, more notices (some even up in lights) at government offices so the country can pat itself on the back for holding the chairmanship.
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5:53pm May 10, 2011
"Hello, Green. Meet Green," I told myself upon coming across the term “Green Economy.” I have been wanting to write about this new concept, if it can be classified as a new concept, as there is also the famous “sustainable development” used by many politicians, companies and NGOs.
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After spending hours chasing down government officials and interviewing activists, Jakarta Globe environment reporter Fidelis E. Satriastanti rubs her eyes and tries to look at the multitude of issues plaguing Indonesia's environment — climate change, pollution, deforestation and more — with a more personal approach to tell us why we should all pay attention to this.
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