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Indonesia Election Riots in Photos
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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.

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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.

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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

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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

In Indonesia, a company intimidates, evicts and plants oil palm without permits
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A state-owned plantation company, PTPN XIV, is evicting farmers to make room for an oil palm estate on the eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
In 1973, the company got a permit to raise cattle and farm tapioca on the now-disputed land, but it expired in 2003. After a long hiatus, the company has returned to claim the land. It says the government has promised to give it permits in the future, but has started operations anyway even as local communities resist.
The case is one of thousands of land disputes simmering across Indonesia, as President Joko Widodo attempts to carry out an ambitious land reform program.
The president has also ordered a freeze on the issuance of new oil palm plantation permits, but the level of enforcement remains to be seen.

#Indonésie #industrie_palmiste #évictions_forcées #terres

With Fatwas and Blasphemy Claims, Cleric Emerges as a Force in Indonesia - WSJ
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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

Indonesia, India to develop strategic Indian Ocean port | Reuters
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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

Indonesian president recognizes land rights of nine more indigenous groups
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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

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

Peasants’ houses in Mekar Jaya - the ‘‘hometown of agrarian reform’’ in Indonesia - razed down by a plantation firm
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It is cruelly ironical.

Less than 72 hours after President Joko Widodo’s orders to implement the agrarian reform through land redistribution as a step to address economic disparity and inequality, peasant families of Mekar Jaya Village in Langkat District of North Sumatera Province in Indonesia were in for a rude shock.

Langkat Nusantara Kepong Ltd (LNK) a Malaysian firm with interests in palm oil plantations, did exactly the opposite by evicting these families from their own lands and razing their houses to the ground. 554 hectares of land have been forcefully grabbed from peasants by this Corporation, in a series of attempts made since the 18th of November 2016.

In the latest of those actions, carried out on Monday the 27th of March, seventy houses have been razed down to the ground.

The affected peasant families, who are members of the Indonesian Peasants’ Union (SPI), have so far been putting up a brave fight. But with nowhere to stay and their houses gone, the distress and despair is strikingly evident.

#Indonésie #industrie_palmiste #évictions_forcées #terres #foncier

A Bornean village conserves a forest the government listed for cutting
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Residents of Bawan village in Indonesia Borneo applied for a permit to manage their land as a “village forest,” a form of community forestry being pushed by President Joko Widodo’s administration.
The national government had designated the area as “production forest,” meaning it could be sold to a plantation or mining company, but residents chose instead to protect the land.
“I consider Bawan’s village forest a champion project," said Lilik Sugiarti, a USAID representative who helped to bring it about.

#Bornéo #Indonésie #forêt #déforestation #responsabilité

Jokowi grants first-ever indigenous land rights to 9 communities
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For the first time, Indonesia’s central government has recognized the rights of nine indigenous communities to the forests they call home, a milestone for a national indigenous peoples movement that is seeking to bring to a close an era of abuse and discrimination at the hands of the state.

That movement still has a long way to go. The nine “customary forests” — known as hutan adat in Indonesian — acknowledged by President Joko Widodo’s administration last week encompass a total of 13,100 hectares (32,370 acres). But the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN) has mapped more than 8.2 million hectares of customary lands it says belongs to the nation’s adat groups, as those who practice ancient modes of knowledge, belief, community and economy are called here.

By point of comparison, Indonesia’s nine biggest oil palm firms in 2013 had planted nearly 2 million hectares.

#terres #foncier #peuples_autochtones #Indonésie

Indonesian leader visits South China Sea islands on warship | Daily Mail Online
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President Joko Widodo visited remote Indonesian islands on a warship Thursday in an apparent show of force after clashes with Chinese vessels and as fears grow Beijing is seeking to stake a claim in the area.

Widodo led a high-level delegation including the foreign minister and armed forces chief to Indonesia’s Natuna Islands in the South China Sea, arriving at a navy base before being escorted to the warship as fighter jets buzzed overhead and navy vessels performed manoeuvres off the coast.

He was due to host a cabinet meeting on the warship, which last week detained a Chinese trawler accused of operating illegally in Indonesian waters.

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Et en dehors d’une réserve naturelle splendide,
Îles Natuna — Wikipédia
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L’archipel possède le plus gros champ de gaz naturel du monde, mais qui comporte 70 % de CO2. Les réserves en sont estimées à 1,3 milliard de m3. Le gaz déjà exploité est exporté à Singapour par un gazoduc sous-marin. L’île de Matak sert de base d’exploitation offshore.

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Mapping Indonesia’s fires and logging rights - Ecoclimax
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Indonesia’s swampy peatlands are an important carbon sink holding an estimated 60 gigatons of CO2 – equivalent to more than six years of global emissions from fossil fuels.

Following the extensive 2015 forest fires – which cost Indonesia an estimated US$16.1 billion – Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced new plans to restore the land and prevent further fires.

In an average year landscape fires cause an estimated 110,000 premature deaths across southeast Asia – and 2015’s fires were much worse than the years used to model those impacts.

The fires were partly fuelled by forest clearance and peatland drainage by palm oil and pulpwood companies.

#déforestation #industrie_palmiste #forêt #Malaisie #Indonésie #cartographie

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Indonesia bans peatlands destruction
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In response to the fires that have hospitalized roughly 500,000 people, polluted skies over a large swathe of southeast Asia, and released upwards of 1.7 billion tons of carbon, Indonesian president Joko Widodo has banned clearance and conversion of carbon-dense peatlands across the archipelago.

The move, undertaken through a series of presidential and ministerial instructions issued over the last two-and-a-half weeks, was welcomed on Tuesday by Greenpeace, which has been pushing for measures to curtail destruction of Indonesia’s peatlands.

“President Jokowi is right to seek to prevent next year’s fires by banning further expansion into peatlands, and requiring peat drainage canals be blocked. It is also just that the government has declared burned areas must be rehabilitated rather than planted,” said Greenpeace Indonesia campaigner Yuyun Indradi in a statement. “President Jokowi’s landmark decision to ban peatland development is a first step toward a cleaner, brighter future for Indonesia’s people and environment. It sets the bar for meaningful commitments from world leaders to tackle the root causes of climate change at the Paris climate summit.”

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#forêt #déforestation #tourbières #industrie_palmiste #pollution #santé

Les feux de forêt indonésiens asphyxient l’Asie du Sud-Est
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Les feux de #forêt en #Indonésie, qui continuent d’engendrer un brouillard âcre sur plusieurs pays de l’Asie du Sud-Est, viennent de forcer le président Joko Widodo à écourter sa première visite officielle aux Etats-Unis. Mardi 27 octobre au soir, après avoir rencontré Barack Obama, le chef de l’Etat indonésien a décidé de regagner précipitamment son pays où les incendies provoqués par la culture sur brûlis ont une nouvelle fois conduit ses voisins malaisiens et singapouriens à fermer des écoles et annuler des vols.

Même la Thaïlande et les Philippines sont désormais affectées par les conséquences de ces fumées qui, depuis presque deux mois, auraient provoqué des #infections_respiratoires chez 500 000 personnes. Quelque 43 millions d’habitants vivent dans les zones touchées. Poussée par les vents, la fumée a envahi l’atmosphère de sept provinces du sud de la Thaïlande, générant, selon les autorités locales, la pire pollution depuis dix ans. Même la très touristique île de Ko Samui, dans le golfe de Thaïlande, n’a pas été épargnée. Le 22 octobre, une cinquantaine de vols ont dû être annulés dans la région, alors que la grande ruée hivernale vers les plages vient de commencer.

Indonesia’s forest fires threaten a third of world’s wild orangutans
▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/26/indonesias-forest-fires-threaten-a-third-of-worlds-wild-orangutans

#santé #brûlis #agriculture #pollution #biodiversité #tourbières

Fin du suspense en Indonésie. Après trois semaines de contestation des résultats électoraux, le gouverneur de Jakarta, M. Joko Widodo, devient officiellement président de la République. Selon la commission de comptage des votes, il a obtenu, le 9 juillet dernier, 53,15 % des voix, contre 46,85 % pour son rival, l’ex-général Prabowo Subianto. Agé de 53 ans, M. Widodo a présenté un programme de réformes sociales tout en étant soutenu par les milieux d’affaires. Parmi les défis à résoudre, outre la pauvreté, celui de l’intégrisme islamiste.

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Hausse des salaires - les marchés s’inquiètent

Cette nuit en Asie : la volatilité des marchés obligataires émergents inquiète, Actualités
►http://www.lesechos.fr/economie-politique/monde/actu/0202404050282-cette-nuit-en-asie-la-volatilite-des-marches-obligataires-eme

Flambée des salaires à Jakarta

Les investisseurs étrangers suivent avec inquiétude la récente multiplication des mouvements sociaux en Indonésie et les prises de position populistes de quelques élus qui pourraient peser sur l’attractivité du plus grand marché d’Asie du Sud-Est. Hier, le tout nouveau gouverneur de Jakarta, Joko Widodo, a annoncé qu’il allait valider une hausse de plus de 44% du salaire minimum dans la capitale. Désormais, ce revenu minimum sera de 2,2 millions de roupies indonésiennes (178 euros), contre 1,5 millions de roupies auparavant.

A l’annonce de cette victoire, des syndicats ont annoncé leur intention d’organiser dès aujourd’hui des manifestations dans les villes voisines abritant des grands parcs industriels et des usines à capitaux étrangers afin d’obtenir une hausse comparable des salaires des ouvriers. Si les analystes notent que ces augmentations pourraient doper à terme la consommation domestique, ils craignent qu’elles ne poussent certains groupes étrangers à revoir leurs projets d’investissements dans le pays et qu’elles incitent les plus petites sociétés travaillant dans le textile et la chaussure à se séparer d’une partie de leurs employés.

#Indonésie #Asie #économie #salaires #textile #ouvriers