city:jakarta

  • Between throwing rocks and a hard place : FPI and the Jakarta riots
    https://www.cetri.be/Between-throwing-rocks-and-a-hard

    Many of the questions surrounding who was responsible for the violence that erupted in Jakarta on 21–22 May will likely never be answered. Prevailing theories suggest roles for a mix of interests and actors, involving paid thugs, religious extremists, opportunists and mysterious gunmen. But there is little clarity on which, if any, of the gaggle of contesting elites may have “masterminded” the unrest, or what precisely they sought to gain from it. In this respect there are strong resonances (...)

    #Southern_Social_Movements_Newswire

    / #Le_Sud_en_mouvement, #Indonésie, #Election, #Religion, #New_Mandala, Revendications (...)

    #Revendications_identitaires

  • Indonesia Election Riots in Photos
    https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/05/indonesia-election-riots-photos/590134

    Yesterday in Jakarta, after it was announced that incumbent President Joko Widodo had been reelected as president of Indonesia, beating former General Prabowo Subianto by 11 percentage points, Subianto’s supporters took to the streets.

    Protesters made claims of widespread cheating, and clashed with riot police in several locations in Jakarta, setting fire to vehicles and buildings. Police reportedly responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, arresting hundreds. After 24 hours of chaos, six people were reported to have died in the protests—the cause of their deaths are under investigation—and more than 200 were listed as injured. Subianto says he plans to contest the election results in court.

  • Elections indonésiennes : 377 employés chargés du dépouillement seraient morts d’épuisement
    https://www.lemonde.fr/big-browser/article/2019/05/02/elections-indonesiennes-377-employes-charges-du-depouillement-seraient-morts

    Le 17 avril dernier en Indonésie, 196 millions d’électeurs dispersés sur 8 000 îles étaient appelés à voter pour départager plus de 245 000 candidats à près de 20 000 postes électifs, du président de la République à l’ensemble des parlementaires régionaux.

    Un exercice démocratique hors norme que les employés de la commission électorale chargés de fournir des résultats fiables – ils doivent être définitifs le 22 mai, même si la réélection du président Joko Widodo est déjà acquise – payent parfois de leur vie : 377 d’entre eux seraient morts de maladies liées à l’épuisement en effectuant le dépouillement, et 2 912 autres sont encore malades, selon un bilan encore provisoire rendu public par les autorités le 1er mai.

    Le gouvernement avait fait, pour la première fois, le pari de rassembler cinq scrutins sur une seule journée pour réaliser des économies d’échelle. A raison de sept assesseurs par bureau de vote – 810 329 dans le pays tout de même – 5,6 millions de personnes étaient mobilisées pour encadrer le scrutin.

    Certains ont eu droit à leur nécrologie dans les journaux du pays : « Les élections, suivies des préparatifs du Vendredi saint et de Pâques, ont épuisé le regretté Sonny », raconte l’un des principaux quotidiens indonésiens, Kompas, en publiant le portrait de Sonny Langkay, 61 ans, mort en dépouillant les bulletins de Malalayang, quartier du sud de la ville de Manado, à l’extrême nord de l’île de Sulawesi.

    #voter_tue

    • Hum et la photo d’illustration ? on ne saura pas qui l’a fait, quand, comment, ni ce qu’elle montre, peut-être une pièce de théatre, une reconstitution, ou encore une scène de crime filmée par la vidéosurveillance.
      Pas très fin comme journalisme machin browser

      source cnnindonesia

      Jakarta, CNN Indonesia — Sekretaris Jenderal Komisi Pemilihan Umum (KPU) Arif Rahman menyampaikan hingga hari ini petugas Kelompok Penyelenggara Pemungutan Suara (KPPS) yang meninggal dunia saat bertugas di Pemilu 2019 mencapai 377 orang.

      Jumlah tersebut bertambah 59 orang dari hari sebelumnya yang menembus angka 318 orang. Data ini dicatat KPU per 1 Mei 2019 pukul 09.00 WIB.

      “Update (pembaruan) data per 1 Mei 2019 pukul 09.00 WIB, wafat 377 orang, sakit 2.912 orang, total 3.289 orang,” ujar Arif dalam keterangan tertulis, Rabu (1/5).

      Lihat juga: Petugas KPPS 318 Meninggal, Ombudsman Kaji Sistem Pemilu
      Arif menyampaikan santunan akan diberikan KPU bulan Mei 2019. Besaran santunan yang disepakati KPU dan Kementerian Keuangan adalah Rp36 juta untuk meninggal dunia, maksimal Rp30 juta untuk penyandang cacat, dan Rp16 juta untuk luka-luka.

      Saat ini KPU melakukan verifikasi data petugas KPPS yang jatuh sakit dan meninggal dunia. Nantinya santunan diberikan dengan transfer ke ATM KPPS atau keluarga.

      “Dilakukan serentak, setelah juknis, dana, dan verifikasi data calon penerima santunan selesai dilakukan KPU kabupaten/kota. Pembayaran santunan diberikan melalui transfer ke rekening yang bersangkutan atau ahli warisnya,” tuturnya. (eks)

  • Rampant deforestation in Leuser triggers floods, landslides - National - The Jakarta Post
    https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/01/30/rampant-deforestation-in-leuser-triggers-floods-landslides.html

    The rampant destruction of forests in the Leuser ecosystem, a major water source for Aceh, has led to frequent flooding in the province.

    A team from the Leuser Conservation Forum (FKL) performed a ground check on damaged areas in the ecosystem and found that, in 2018, about 5,685 hectares of the ecosystem were deforested, with the most serious damage found in Gayo Lues with 1,063 ha of deforested area.

    The ecosystem, located across several regencies in the province, also saw 889 ha damaged in Nagan Raya and another 863 ha in East Aceh. As of December 2018, 1.7 ha of forest remained in the Leuser ecosystem.

    The FKL and another conservation group, the Aceh Forest, Nature and Environment Foundation (Haka), concluded from their observations that the high rates of deforestation over many years caused flooding.

    Based on an observation of river basin areas, the highest rate of deforestation was found in the Singkil-Alas River Basin, which covers Gayo Lues, Southeast Aceh, Subulussalam, Aceh Singkil and the neighboring province of North Sumatra.

    #forêt #déforestation #plantations #Sumatra #Indonésie #inondation #écosystèmes #crétins_abyssaux

  • With Fatwas and Blasphemy Claims, Cleric Emerges as a Force in Indonesia - WSJ
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/conservative-muslim-cleric-emerges-as-a-force-in-indonesias-elections-115482448
    https://images.wsj.net/im-49236/social

    JAKARTA, Indonesia—The Muslim cleric poised to become vice president of the world’s third-largest democracy is known for curbing religious freedoms, opposing gay rights, and for his role in the prosecution of a Christian politician for blaspheming Islam.

    Ma’ruf Amin is the running mate of Indonesia’s more-moderate president, Joko Widodo, and polls indicate they should comfortably win April elections in the country of 250 million.

    #indonésie #islam #islam_radical

  • Tsunami en Indonésie : « Les ONG étrangères peuvent être un fardeau » - Libération
    https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2018/10/11/tsunami-en-indonesie-les-ong-etrangeres-peuvent-etre-un-fardeau_1684725

    Rony Brauman, ancien président de Médecins sans frontières, justifie la décision de Jakarta de privilégier l’aide locale. Selon lui, l’arrivée de milliers de secouristes internationaux peut mener à une « catastrophe dans la catastrophe ».

    Dix jours après le tremblement de terre suivi d’un tsunami survenu sur l’île des Célèbes en #Indonésie, le bilan continue de s’alourdir, avec plus de 2 000 morts, 80 000 sans-abri et 5 000 disparus, nombre d’entre eux ayant été ensevelis par le phénomène de liquéfaction des sols qui a englouti un pan entier de la ville de #Palu. Après avoir déclaré la semaine dernière qu’elles acceptaient de l’aide venue de l’étranger, les autorités indonésiennes ont finalement annoncé jeudi compter 10 000 secouristes sur le terrain et ne pas avoir besoin d’assistance extérieure, à part pour les quatre priorités qu’elles ont identifiées, soit des tentes, des appareils de traitement d’eau, des générateurs et des véhicules. Depuis quelques jours, la presse se fait l’écho du désarroi des petites associations de pompiers ou de médecins qui avaient fait le voyage. Comme d’autres équipes venues d’Europe, elles se sont retrouvées bloquées par les autorités, leurs chiens de recherches mis en quarantaine, leurs dons de médicaments refusés, et ont dû revenir en France sans avoir pu accéder à la zone sinistrée. Seuls des Pompiers de l’urgence internationale, qui collaboraient depuis dix ans avec l’organisation locale Jakarta Rescue, semblent avoir pu travailler sur place, recherchant en vain des survivants dans les décombres de l’hôtel Mercure. Rony #Brauman, un des pionniers de l’humanitaire, président de Médecins sans frontières France de 1982 à 1994 et désormais directeur d’études à la fondation #MSF, défend la position de #Jakarta.

    Que pensez-vous du choix indonésien de limiter l’aide internationale ?

    Les autorités ont raison de filtrer l’arrivée des #ONG étrangères, qui peuvent être plus un fardeau qu’une aide. Lors du tsunami de 2004, le débarquement de milliers de secouristes inexpérimentés et désordonnés avait été une catastrophe dans la catastrophe. Les administrations locales ont déjà fort à faire, elles doivent s’occuper des routes encombrées, de la sécurité, du manque d’eau, d’essence, de logements. Il leur est impossible de gérer des centaines d’ONG qui vont peser sur les ressources locales et qui n’ont souvent pour elles que leur bonne volonté, le besoin de s’assurer un crédit en termes d’image ou, plus rarement, des motivations crapuleuses [se rendre sur les lieux d’une catastrophe permet de faire un appel aux dons, ndlr]. D’où l’importance d’une autorité locale qui organise, cadre, dirige. Ce n’est pas agréable de se faire imposer un lieu et une forme d’action, mais c’est indispensable.

    MSF n’a pas envoyé d’aide aux Célèbes, à part une mission d’évaluation des besoins. Est-ce par choix ou parce que l’Indonésie refuse ?

    Un peu des deux. Nous avons une très longue expérience des catastrophes naturelles et nous savons que, sauf exception notable, les premiers secours d’urgence sont assurés par les forces locales et par les structures politiques, religieuses ou militaires. La solidarité collective s’organise spontanément. Plus tard, les ONG peuvent prendre le relais, pallier la fatigue et l’épuisement. Mais la coordination avec le pouvoir local et les Nations unies est indispensable. Même si la société est bouleversée par un événement inattendu, on ne peut pas débarquer comme ça au bout du monde.

    Que pensez-vous des critiques émises contre le pouvoir indonésien, accusé à mots couverts de laisser mourir sa population ?

    Elles tiennent de l’arrogance et de la présomption, lesquelles peuvent prendre des proportions effarantes. Il y a dix ans, lors du cyclone en Birmanie, certaines ONG avaient publié des bilans cataclysmiques. Des éditos assassins accusaient le pouvoir birman de mettre en danger un million de personnes. Il y a même eu des menaces d’intervention par la force de la part des Etats-Unis, du Royaume-Uni ou de la France. Or le risque de famine et d’épidémie était nul, et la société et l’armée avaient pris en main la distribution d’eau potable et de nourriture. Même si les chiffres sont forcément très imprécis, c’est immoral d’exagérer sciemment les besoins pour mieux se mettre en valeur.

    Lors de ces catastrophes, a-t-on tendance à mettre en lumière l’aide occidentale ?

    L’aide locale ne se voit pas sur les images, les gens sont habillés comme les autres, ont la même allure. L’information est souvent centrée sur les équipes venues de l’étranger. En #Haïti, une seule personne désincarcérée par des pompiers occidentaux avait accaparé les médias, qui semblaient ignorer que 1 500 autres survivants avaient été sortis à mains nues par les habitants. Au Sri Lanka, en 2004, une bande de terre de 50 à 200 mètres avait été touchée par le tsunami. Dès les premières 24 heures, le pays avait mobilisé un millier de médecins et d’infirmiers qui connaissaient la langue, l’organisation de soins et la pharmacopée locales. Malgré cette réponse forte, on continuait d’envoyer depuis l’étranger des équipes médicales inutiles.

    Mais n’y avait-il pas urgence à soigner les blessés à Palu ?

    Contrairement à un mythe infondé, même si les besoins médicaux ont un aspect spectaculaire, ce n’est pas le problème fondamental. Haïti a été une exception en 2010, puisqu’il y a eu un très grand nombre de blessés en quelques minutes à Port-au-Prince à cause de l’habitat construit en dur avec de mauvais scellements. Les structures locales n’étaient pas capables de répondre à des attentes aussi spécifiques que des interventions chirurgicales orthopédiques. Nous avions donc effectué 15 000 procédures chirurgicales d’urgence pour environ 10 000 blessés [les patients peuvent avoir plusieurs blessures]. A Palu, la plupart des victimes sont mortes écrasées dans l’effondrement des immeubles ou noyées par le tsunami. Les autres ne sont en général que légèrement blessées ou ont perdu leur logement. La question des abris est un enjeu primordial. Le manque de sommeil est rarement évoqué, pourtant, si les gens ne peuvent pas dormir à cause de la pluie ou du vent, ils vont tomber malades, devenir agressifs…

    Sur place, des journalistes racontent que les habitants, affamés et assoiffés, espéraient pourtant de l’aide étrangère…

    A l’évidence, le gouvernement indonésien n’a pas mis en place un dispositif d’information à destination de la population de Palu. Les délais d’arrivée des vivres, de l’eau potable, des générateurs sont difficiles à juger faute de connaissance des réalités de terrain. La mobilisation et le transport de grandes quantités de matériels et de biens de survie prennent toujours du temps, en fonction de la localisation des dégâts, de l’état des ports et des aéroports, de l’isolement des villages gravement touchés… Et seules les armées disposent des moyens logistiques nécessaires.

    La menace du choléra est souvent agitée pour justifier une intervention extérieure. Est-ce un mythe ?

    En tant que médecin, j’ai été frappé de voir les Indonésiens regrouper les corps et les enterrer rapidement après les avoir recouverts de chaux, comme si on croyait encore à la génération spontanée de micro-organismes meurtriers. Les cadavres en grand nombre sont une source d’anxiété, dégagent une odeur intenable mais ils ne génèrent pas de risque épidémique. Certes, une canalisation peut se rompre, entrer en contact avec des corps en décomposition, ce qui créera des foyers de gastro-entérites très désagréables et des problèmes sérieux pour les bébés et les personnes fragiles. Et s’il y avait déjà du #choléra sur place, le séisme ne va pas arranger les choses. Mais c’est tout. Cette croyance qui date de l’Antiquité a des conséquences juridiques, financières et psychologiques importantes : sans les rites funéraires, la sublimation de la mort n’aura pas lieu ; si le décès de leurs proches n’est pas déclaré, les survivants vont se trouver face à des casse-tête juridiques, etc. On pourrait attendre des autorités sanitaires qu’elles rétablissent la vérité. Or les ONG et les agences des Nations unies contribuent à partager et diffuser un mythe potentiellement problématique.

    De crise en crise, le secteur de l’humanitaire apprend-il de ses erreurs ?

    Depuis une vingtaine d’années, les choses ont tendance à s’améliorer, grâce à des dispositifs d’information et aux critiques. Il ne faut pas tout jeter par-dessus bord. Comme les ressources locales ne sont pas inépuisables, une assistance internationale bien organisée peut se révéler extrêmement utile dans un deuxième temps, en amenant par exemple des moyens de télécommunication, du matériel de construction ou de l’aide alimentaire si les récoltes sont détruites. Je pense qu’il faudrait créer un système d’accréditation des organisations non gouvernementales pour les situations d’urgence, qui serait basée sur des critères d’expérience, de logistique et d’autonomie matérielle totale.
    Laurence Defranoux

    #humanitaire #rapport_colonial

  • Video: 10 injured after man falsely claims bomb on plane - Khaleej Times
    https://www.khaleejtimes.com/international/video-10-injured-after-man-falsely-claims-bomb-on-plane
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BTgNWW49gc

    Police say 10 passengers on an Indonesian flight preparing to take off from Borneo island were injured, mostly with broken bones and head wounds, after a man falsely said there was a bomb on board.

    Police spokesman Nanang Purnomo said other passengers overheard the 26-year-old man, Frantinus Nirigi, telling a flight attendant there was a bomb on the Lion Air plane, which was carrying 189 passengers to Jakarta on Monday night.

    Purnomo said another passenger broke the emergency exit windows. He and Nirigi were arrested.

    Video online showed dozens of people standing on the Boeing 737’s right wing. Some slid down the right engine and landed on the tarmac.

    Purnomo said eight passengers had broken bones and head wounds. Two had minor injuries.

    He said an inspection found no bomb.

  • Indonesia, India to develop strategic Indian Ocean port | Reuters
    https://www.reuters.com/article/indonesia-india/indonesia-india-to-develop-strategic-indian-ocean-port-idUSL3N1T11XL

    Indonesia and India pledged on Wednesday to step up defence and maritime cooperation, with plans to develop a strategic Indonesian naval port in the Indian Ocean, the leaders of the two countries said after meeting in Jakarta.

    Indonesian President Joko Widodo met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss, among other issues, developing infrastructure and an economic zone at #Sabang, on the tip of Sumatra island and at the mouth of the #Malacca_Strait, one of the busiest shipping channels for global trade.

    “India is a strategic defence partner...and we will continue to advance our cooperation in developing infrastructure, including at #Sabang_Island and the #Andaman Islands,” Widodo told a news conference after the meeting at the presidential palace.

    #détroit_de_Malacca

  • Timika - Mon blog sur l’écologie politique
    http://blog.ecologie-politique.eu/post/Timika
    par Aude Vidal

    « Western papou », prévient la couverture. #Timika, cette ville de #Papouasie_occidentale située dans les environs de la plus grande mine d’or du monde, a en effet des airs de ville-frontière pourrie par la corruption, le fric de l’or qui ruisselle tant bien que mal, pourrie enfin par cette guerre méconnue que l’#Indonésie mène contre les Papous. Si aujourd’hui ce grand archipel épouse parfaitement les frontières des Indes néerlandaises, une création coloniale, cela n’a rien d’une évidence car la #Nouvelle_Guinée est une île peuplée de Papous, peuple mélanésien et chrétien. Sa partie occidentale a été rattachée de force à l’Indonésie dans les années 1960, suite à une annexion forcée et à un référendum sous contrôle, avec la complaisance de la communauté internationale. Jakarta mène depuis lors une guerre pour garder le territoire dans son giron. Car, qu’il s’agisse de bois ou de métaux, l’île est aussi riche en #matières_premières que ses habitant·es sont pauvres.

    #livre

  • Pulp and paper giant sues Indonesian government over peat protection obligation
    https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/pulp-and-paper-giant-sues-indonesian-government-over-peat-protection-

    “By invalidating the work plans which serve as a basis for RAPP’s operation, the company no longer has legal certainty,” RAPP lawyer Heru Widodo told reporters after a hearing of the case in Jakarta.

    The challenge signals a new phase in the dispute between RAPP and President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s administration. The parties have clashed over how to manage the huge swaths of land RAPP has been licensed to manage across the archipelago. The firm’s plantations overlap with one of Indonesia’s deepest peat-swamp landscapes, the Kampar Peninsula in Sumatra.

    The work plans were invalidated in the wake of the 2015 fire and haze crisis, stoked in large part by the drainage of Indonesia’s vast peat swamps — rendering them highly flammable — by companies like APRIL and its main competitor, Asia Pulp & Paper, as well as palm oil firms.

    Smoke from the fires sickened half a million Indonesians, per government estimates, and drifted into neighboring countries. At the height of the disaster, the daily emissions of carbon dioxide as a result of the burning exceeded those from all U.S. economic activity.

    un schéma qui semble intéressant mais on voit rien

    #indonésie #tourbière #papier #huile_de_palme

  • Indonesian president recognizes land rights of nine more indigenous groups
    https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/indonesian-president-recognizes-land-rights-of-nine-more-indigenous-g

    Indonesian President Joko Widodo last month gave several indigenous communities back the land rights to the forests they have called home for generations.
    The total amount of customary forests relinquished to local groups under this initiative remains far short of what the government has promised, and looks unlikely to be fulfilled before the next presidential election in 2019.
    At a recent conference in Jakarta, a senior government official said the president would sign a decree to help more communities secure rights.

    #terres #Indonésie #peuples_autochtones #forêt #foncier

  • Technosphere Magazine: Jakarta: A Colonial Water-Management Fantasy Park
    https://technosphere-magazine.hkw.de/p/98856ef0-1ea8-11e7-8957-371a68f4db9b

    We could say that we have something of a geological curse beneath us in Jakarta, which in a way is like many other Asian delta cities—of course, not all of these other cities were colonial settlements, but Batavia certainly was. What kind of Holocene fantasy was in the mind of the Dutch when they moved into a pestilential, mosquito-filled mangrove swamp and decided to show their manly engineering brilliance by turning it into a capital city? I mean it’s completely absurd. But now we’re stuck there, all 31 million residents who are now living among the thirteen rivers that run from the mountains to the sea through this sprawling megacity. And we’re stuck with the 1,100 kilometers of canals the Dutch decided to cut through the landscape. We’re stuck because Indonesians can’t just decide that—after the Dutch made this swamp into an extremely costly colonial investment over the course of a hundreds of years—to just call it off, and instead move to some different place. We have to remember that these colonial path dependencies are really about the control of nature. People from Europe look at Indonesia today and say: “Wow, this is totally fucked. There’s been a city there for over three hundred years, but they still can’t get it together to stop the flooding.”

  • Saudi Arabia’s Footprints in Southeast Asia | The Diplomat
    https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/saudi-arabias-footprints-in-southeast-asia

    A 2016 New York Times report noted that Saudi teachings have “shifted the religious culture in a markedly conservative direction” in Southeast Asia. One has to look no further than the recent case of a launderette in Johor, Malaysia declaring that it would only serve Muslim customers for proof of increasing Islamization. Only at the behest of the Sultan of Johor did the launderette owner apologize and reverse the exclusive policy. The incident so concerned Malaysia’s nine sultans that they issued a rare statement a few days later, saying that such actions “can undermine the harmonious relations among the people of various races and religions” and that “[u]nity among Malaysia’s multi-ethnic and multi-religious people is key to ensuring the country’s ongoing stability.”

    Similarly, in Indonesia, the contentious election of Anies Baswedan as Jakarta governor in April 2017, in part due to the support of hardline Muslim groups, demonstrates their growing significance in the world’s largest Muslim country. Douglas Ramage of the public policy consultancy BowerGroupAsia told The Diplomat that the influence of more moderate Islamic institutions in Indonesia like Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama “has waned a bit.” Even Jokowi himself was criticized by the Ulema Council’s deputy secretary-general for saying that “politics and religion should be well separated so that people could differentiate between political and religious matters.” With the fresh injection of Saudi funds, the growing conservatism in the region looks likely to continue.

    Najib’s diatribe against Myanamr’s Aung San Suu Kyi was one window into how ASEAN leaders have had to respond to this cultural development. If religiously-driven voters are to serve as a key part of Najib’s base, he will likely continue to position himself as a defender of Muslims across the region, awakening a heretofore dormant force in Southeast Asian relations that will outlive his tenure. This will probably cause significant tensions with countries where sizable Muslim minorities are present, including Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. These countries are already on edge after a spate of recent attacks and foiled terrorist plans, and they will certainly advocate for the Muslim-majority countries to embrace a more moderate brand of Islam.

    Finally, Najib’s diatribe was bizarre given ASEAN’s steadfast adherence to the principle of non-interference in other member states’ affairs. ASEAN’s founders were explicit in their insistence that each state should be given the latitude to govern as they saw fit, stemming from a desire to send a message to the then-superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, that sovereignty was sacrosanct. In this instance, Najib was able to evoke a response from Myanmar and ASEAN but it sets a dangerous precedent.

    Saudi Arabia’s engagement with Southeast Asia signals the uncertainty and instability characteristic of today’s global order. With the United States absolving itself of international leadership and calling into question the very tenets of the postwar world, a host of state actors have devised various means to protect their nations’ interests, including other Middle Eastern states. Saudi Arabia is no different in that respect but its renewed engagement – and the increasing religious influence it wields as a result – poses difficult questions for an already-weakened ASEAN.

    #Asie_du_sud-est #Arabie_saoudite #wahabbisme

  • Morning Star : Britain buries its bloody role in Indonesia | The People’s Daily
    http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-2fd5-Britain-buries-its-bloody-role-in-Indonesia

    THE attempts to prevent a summit from going ahead in Jakarta on the massacres of 1965 show just how great a step was taken when the International People’s Tribunal into the killings reported last year.

    They also underline how much work is left to be done. It is significant that the tribunal was held in The Hague, and that the Indonesian, British and US governments all rejected invitations to participate.

    Britain is vital to our understanding of the events of 1965 — this is far from a matter of curiosity about another country’s history but an episode in which our own government and its major ally were deeply involved.

    #histoire #Indonésie #massacres #Royaume_uni

  • In their rush to become “global”, cities risk creating spatial apartheid, by Melissa Tandiwe Myambo
    http://theconversation.com/in-their-rush-to-become-global-cities-risk-creating-spatial-aparthe

    Maboneng represents one strand of the type of urban “development” that’s advocated for by the proponents of “global cities”. The problem with this type of development is that it often leads to cities becoming more spatially unequal as urban regeneration or gentrification displaces people.

    The city’s core areas are occupied by the wealthy. Low-income residents are pushed to the urban peripheries in search of affordable housing. This trend is intensifying around the world: in New York, London, Sydney, Los Angeles and Vancouver as well as in globalising or emerging cities like Johannesburg, Accra, Beijing, Cape Town, Jakarta, Mumbai and Shanghai.

    We have seen this model before. It was called the apartheid city.

    #urban_matter #gentrification #afrique_du_sud #global_cities #apartheid

  • Temple Mount crisis: Jerusalem unifies the Muslims through struggle - Palestinians
    http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/.premium-1.802844
    Although most Palestinians are not allowed to visit Al-Aqsa, this holy site is doing what the siege of Gaza and the expansion of the settlements could not: bringing them together

    By Amira Hass | Jul. 23, 2017 | 12:55 PM |

    A secular young man from the Ramallah area expressed his astonishment at how Jerusalem was unifying the entire Palestinian people,, and compared the perpetrator of Friday night’s attack in Halamish, Omar al-Abed, to Saladin. A silly comparison, all would agree. Still, the need to bring up Saladin encapsulates all the fatigue among Palestinians about those they perceive as the new Crusaders.

    That young man can’t go to East Jerusalem and the Old City, which is less than 30 kilometers (about 18 miles) from his home, because even in ordinary times Israel doesn’t give entry permits “just like that” for people his age. And perhaps he is among those who consider it humiliating to have to request an entry permit to a Palestinian city. The last time he visited was when he was 13 – some 13 years ago.

    And so this young Palestinian did not hear a few of the preachers in Jerusalem on Friday talk about their longing for Saladin. Because the Palestinians stuck to their prohibition on entering Al-Aqsa through the Israeli metal detectors, self-styled preachers spoke to groups of worshippers who had gathered in the streets of East Jerusalem and the Old City, surrounded by Border Police personnel aiming their long rifles at them.

    One of those preachers said that if not for the positions and actions of various regimes in the world in the past and present, the Jews would not have overcome the Palestinians. Then he paused and added, “If not for the Palestinian Authority, the collaborator, the Jews would not have the upper hand.” He also wondered: “Is it possible that in all the Muslim armies in the world today, not one can produce a Saladin?” And then he promised that the day would come when armies from Jakarta, Istanbul and Cairo will arrive to liberate Palestine, Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa.

    Another preacher made similar statements to a tourist from Turkey before the sermon. The content and style recalled the Islamist-Salafist party Hizb El Tahrir: There is no preaching for an armed struggle against the Israeli occupier, but strong faith in a day when the Muslim world mobilizes and brings down the “Jewish Crusaders.”

    When the prayer was over, only a few joined the call warning Jews that “the army of Mohammed would return” – but no one protested the characterization of the PA as a “collaborator.” Anyway, its activities are forbidden in Jerusalem. Israel pushed out the PLO (to which the PA is theoretically subservient) from every unifying, cultural, social or economic role it had until the year 2000. A vacuum like that can only be filled with religious entities and spokesmen who will give meaning to a life full of suffering. The consistent position of the PLO and the PA that this is not a religious conflict and that Israel should not be allowed to turn it into one doesn’t sound particularly convincing in Jerusalem.

    Since most Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank can’t go to Jerusalem, the city – and particularly the Al-Aqsa Mosque – are for them abstract sites, a “concept” or a picture on the wall; not a reality to be experienced. But this abstract place, Al-Aqsa, is doing what the siege of Gaza and its 2 million prisoners, the expansion of the settlements and the confiscation of water tanks and solar panels from communities in Area C, are not doing: It is unifying them. The anti-colonial discourse, which is essentially national, political and secular, is channeled to Facebook posts, to scholarly articles that do not reach the general public and to hollow slogans mouthed by leaders, the shelf-life of whose leadership and mandate has long since expired.

    In other words, the national discourse and the veteran national leadership are no longer considered relevant today. While Al-Aqsa, in contrast, manages to create mass popular opposition to the foreign Israeli ruler – and that sparks the imagination and inspiration of masses of others who cannot go to Jerusalem. Not only nonreligious people came to places of worship in Jerusalem on Friday to be with their people. A number of Palestinian Christians also joined the groups of Muslim worshippers and prayed in their way, facing Al-Aqsa and Mecca.

    Of course, this is first and foremost the strength of religious belief. The deeper the faith, the greater the insult to its sacred elements. The fact that Al-Aqsa is a pan-Islamic site is an empowering element. But not only that: Jerusalem has the highest concentration of Palestinians who rub elbows with the foreign Israeli ruler, with everything this entails in terms of the trampling on their rights and humiliating them. They don’t need “symbolic sites” of the occupation, like military checkpoints, to recall the occupation or express their rage. And the Al-Aqsa plaza, for its part, is where the largest number of Jerusalemites can gather together in one place to feel like a collective. And when this right to congregate is taken away from them, they protest as one – which also reminds the rest of the Palestinians that the entire public is one, suffering the same foreign rule.

    But that same unified public can no longer express its oneness in mass actions. It is closed and cut off in ostensibly sovereign enclaves, and split into social classes with ever-widening social, economic and emotional gaps. Its road to the symbolic sites of the occupation, which surround every enclave, is blocked by the Palestinian security forces as well as by adaptation to life in the enclave.

    This is the political and factual foundation for the continued presence of lone-wolf attackers, without reference to the outcome of their actions: First of all, the intolerable continuation of the occupation; then the inspiration of Al-Aqsa as a place that unifies, religiously and socially; the disappointing, weakened and weak leadership; and a willingness to die that is a mixture of faith in Paradise and despair at life.

    en français : https://seenthis.net/messages/617928

    • Esplanade des Mosquées : M. Abbas suspend la coordination sécuritaire avec Israël
      Par RFI Publié le 23-07-2017
      http://www.rfi.fr/moyen-orient/20170723-esplanade-mosquees-abbas-suspend-coordination-securitaire-israel-oslo

      Israël joue avec le feu en imposant de nouvelles mesures de sécurité à l’entrée de l’Esplanade des Mosquées. L’accusation est lancée ce dimanche au Caire par le secrétaire général de la Ligue arabe pour qui Jérusalem est une ligne rouge à ne pas franchir. De nouvelles manifestations ont eu lieu samedi et deux nouvelles victimes sont à déplorer : deux Palestiniens ont été tués. Mahmoud Abbas avait annoncé dès vendredi le gel de tous les contacts avec Israël : première traduction concrète ce dimanche avec l’annulation d’une réunion de coopération sécuritaire israélo-palestinienne.

      avec notre correspondante à Ramallah, Marina Vlahovic

  • Christian Governor in Indonesia Found Guilty of Blasphemy Against Islam - The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/world/asia/indonesia-governor-ahok-basuki-tjahaja-purnama-blasphemy-islam.html

    An Indonesian court found the Christian governor of Jakarta guilty of blasphemy against Islam on Tuesday, sentencing him to two years in prison in a case widely seen as a test of religious tolerance and free speech.

    The governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, was defeated last month in an election in which the blasphemy case, and religion, became a major issue.

    Blasphemy is a crime in Indonesia, a secular democracy with the world’s largest Muslim population.

    The sentence was harsher than what prosecutors had asked for. They had recommended a sentence of two years’ probation on a lesser charge, which would have spared Mr. Basuki prison time.

    Mr. Basuki told reporters that he would appeal the ruling.

    Mr. Basuki became governor of Jakarta, the capital, in 2014 when his predecessor, Joko Widodo, became president. Mr. Basuki, known as Ahok, was only the city’s second non-Muslim governor and had hoped to become its first directly elected non-Muslim leader.

    He had been leading in the polls last year, but in September his campaign faltered when he tried to address attacks from Muslim hard-liners who argued that the Quran forbade Muslims from voting for a non-Muslim. Mr. Basuki said those making that argument were misleading Muslims, a statement that was interpreted by some as insulting the Quran.

    Muslim groups organized mass rallies against him, demanding that he be jailed for blasphemy.

    His defeat last month was seen as a sign of the increasing power of Muslim conservatives, who have pressed for the adoption of Islamic law, or Shariah, throughout the archipelago.

  • Pence’s visit to Indonesia another strike in internal White House battle over Islam

    Pence praised Indonesia’s ’moderate Islam’ as ’an inspiration to the world,’ but others in Trump’s administration still see all Muslims as a threat

    Amir Tibon Apr 22, 2017
    read more: http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.784940

    Vice President Mike Pence became this week the first senior figure from the Trump White House to visit a Muslim country. As part of his tour in Southeast Asia, that was focused mostly on the crisis in the Korean peninsula, Pence stopped in Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation in the world, which is home to approximately 250 million people. 
    During his visit to Jakarta, the country’s capital, Pence made a statement that under previous U.S. administrations probably wouldn’t have been filed as more than a footnote, but in the Trump era, immediately made headlines and raised some eyebrows. “As the largest majority Muslim country, Indonesia’s tradition of moderate Islam, frankly, is an inspiration to the world,” Pence declared. He added that the United States commends Indonesia and its people “for the great inspiration that Indonesia provides to the world.”
    Indonesia is indeed a Muslim country led by moderate and democratically elected leadership. Its president, Joko Widodo, was elected in 2014, and was presented in news reports at the time as an “Indonesian version” of Barack Obama. Indonesia is also an important trade partner for the United States and has the largest navy in Southeast Asia. All of these factors can explain why Pence found it important to flatter his hosts in Jakarta this week. But the fact that he chose to specifically speak about the importance of moderate Islam was what made it into the news reports. 
    The reason is obvious: during his election campaign last year, Pence’s boss, Donald Trump, made statements and promises that ignored any kind of differentiation between various movements and groups in the Muslim world. Trump talked about banning all Muslims from entering the United States, without exception, and in March 2016 he said in an interview to CNN that “Islam hates us. There is tremendous hate there.” 
    Trump also assembled around him a number of key advisers with strong anti-Muslim opinions. Michael Flynn, his first choice for the position of National Security Adviser, claimed that Islam wasn’t truly a religion, but rather a political ideology that must be defeated. He also said radical Islamism was like cancer “inside the body of 1.7 billion people” - suggesting that every Muslim person in the world was “infected” by it.

    #Islam #Etats-Unis

  • Google Invests in Submarine Cable to Speed Up Its Cloud in Asia Pacific | Data Center Knowledge
    http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/04/05/google-invests-submarine-cable-speed-cloud-asia-pacific

    Google has invested in yet another submarine cable project to boost bandwidth of the global network backbone that interconnects its data centers around the world.

    The 9,000-kilometer Indigo cable will land in Singapore, Jakarta, Perth, and Sydney, boosting bandwidth between the three countries by 18 terabits per second, which is enough for people in Singapore and Sydney to hold 8 million high-definition video calls, the company said.

    #Google #télécommunications

  • Lady Terminator
    http://www.nova-cinema.org/prog/2017/159-offscreen/indonesian-action-cinema/article/lady-terminator-18019

    H. Tjut Djalil, 1989, ID, 35mm, VO ANG ,82’

    Tout le monde connaît naturellement « Terminator », où Arnold Schwarzenegger entraîne ses ennemis au lit pour leur moudre la zigounette avec son vagin musclé.... Un instant... Non ! C’est l’adaptation indonésienne du film de James Cameron ! Sans les robots futuristes mais avec une touriste américaine possédée par une déesse asiatique sanguinaire et castratrice... Les rues de Jakarta se teintent de rouge, car quiconque se met sur son chemin se fait zigouiller à la mitraillette. Quant aux hommes, elle les vise de préférence dans les parties. Les coiffures, les synthés, tout nous ramène aux années 80 dans cette virée aussi sauvage que rigolote sur les plus hautes vagues du film d’action indonésien.

    vendredi 24 mars 2017 à (...)

  • COMMENTARY: The elephant in the room in Saudi king’s visit
    Ary Hermawan
    The Jakarta Post
    http://www.thejakartapost.com/academia/2017/03/12/commentary-the-elephant-in-the-room-in-saudi-kings-visit.html

    Via @alaingresh

    Foreign journalists may have overstated the influence of Saudi Salafism in Indonesia, but there is no denying Salafi movements are thriving in the country and this could pose a problem.

    Radio stations spreading Salafi teachings are mushrooming in Indonesia, according to research by the Center for the Study of Islam and Society (PPIM). Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, has also decided to expand its Institute for Islamic and Arabic Studies (LIPIA), known as a leading Salafist educational institution in Jakarta.

    To be clear, it is a mistake to equate Salafism with terrorism as many Salafists are apolitical, denouncing terrorists as takfiris who have strayed from the “true path of Islam.”

    But Salafists, even the quietists, are generally absolutists who are ideologically incapable of managing differences, which could undermine Indonesia’s pluralism and democracy. It is also a fact that for some people, Salafism could serve as a bridge, instead of deterrent, to radicalism, with local militants supporting the Islamic State (IS) claiming to be Salafists.

    Local IS ideologue Aman Abdurrahman, for example, is an alumni of LIPIA.

    Scholars call Aman and other IS or al-Qaeda supporters Salafijihadists as they blend the apolitical but extreme ideology of Salafism with the political militancy of the Muslim Brotherhood, particularly the political theology of the group’s martyred ideologue, Sayid Qutb.

    The Indonesian government, which supports the Islam Nusantara campaign and the rationale behind it, is aware of the elephant in the room and has understandably avoided mentioning the issue during this milestone event in Jakarta-Riyadh relations.

    #Arabie_saoudite #wahabbisme #salafisme #Indonésie

  • Enquête. L’enfer des pêcheurs indonésiens sur les bateaux taïwanais

    Recrutés dans des villages pauvres de l’Indonésie, ils sont envoyés travailler sur d’énormes navires de pêche dans l’océan Pacifique. Souvent maltraités, mal nourris et sans garantie d’être payés, certains d’entre eux ne reviennent pas. Le grand hebdomadaire de Jakarta, Tempo, révèle l’infernal parcours de nombre de ces marins pêcheurs.

    http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/enquete-lenfer-des-pecheurs-indonesiens-sur-les-bateaux-taiwa
    #travail #exploitation #pêche #Indonésie #Taïwan #néo-esclavage

  • Papuans still unhappy over Merauke food and oil palm project | Radio New Zealand News
    http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/323368/papuans-still-unhappy-over-merauke-food-and-oil-palm-project

    Jakarta has thrown high level support behind the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate, or MIFEE, a project in the far south east of Papua province

    Eventually expected to cover 1.6 million hectares, MIFEE has attracted dozens of investors, looking to grow food crops and palm oil.

    Billed as a project to address food security concerns for parts of the country, local Papuan communities have complained that MIFEE is alienating them from their land.

    A member of the video-based advocacy organisation Papuan Voices, Wensi Fatubun, said young Papuans in Merauke have begun using video to convey their opposition.

    “We try to empower the community to do how they can protect their own land, their own rights, from the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate project.”

    However, the government said MIFEE was aimed at helping create improved living standards for Papuan communities.

    #Indonésie #Papouasie #terres #industrie_palmiste #développement

  • What Nutmeg Can Tell Us About Nafta - The New York Times
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/sunday/clove-trees-the-color-of-ash.html

    GOA, India — For many years the word “globalization” was used as shorthand for a promised utopia of free trade powered by the world’s great centers of technological and financial innovation. But the celebratory note has worn thin. The word is now increasingly invoked to explain a widespread recoiling from a cosmopolitan earth. People in many countries are looking nostalgically backward, toward less connected, supposedly more secure times.

    But did such an era ever exist? Was there ever an unglobalized world?

    The question struck me during the final hours of the American election, when I happened to be traveling by ferry in the Maluku archipelago of Indonesia. Once known as the Moluccas, this corner of the world is considered remote even within Indonesia. Two time zones removed from Jakarta, it straddles one of the most seismically volatile zones on earth; many of its islands are active volcanoes rising steeply out of the sea. In size they range from small to minuscule. Surely if ever there were a global periphery, it would be here.

    #histoire #globalisation #mondialisation