Life has changed on the ‘island paradise’- but foreign investment is not all it’s cracked up to be. Jamie James looks beyond the tourist brochures.
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Sumatra: this land is my land
Daniel Pye reports from Indonesia on a dogged resistance by rural communities to plantation companies’ violent land-grabbing.
Filed in: Environment Indonesia
- Daniel Pye
- January 6, 2012
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West Papuans mark bitter-sweet ‘independence’ day
It’s 50 years since West Papua first won independence, only for Indonesia to cruelly snatch it away. Nick Harvey reports on the tensions in the region.
Filed in: Activism Democracy Human Rights Indonesia West Papua
- Nick Harvey
- December 1, 2011
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The waves that woke the world
The aftermath and implications of the Asian tsunami. Includes: the Burmese migrant workers who were forgotten victims; caste discrimination in India even amid the tsunami trauma; an NI reader on helping to identify bodies in Thailand.
- New Internationalist Editorial, Tom Fawthrop, Lasanda Kurukulasuriya, Mark Notaras, Cam Walker, Martin Khor and Fabio Scarpello
- April 1, 2005
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The death of Hadi Saleh
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- David Bacon
- March 1, 2005
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States of Unrest
Resistance to economic ‘adjustment’ is growing with every passing year, as this worldwide round-up shows.
Filed in: Activism Argentina IMF Indonesia Korea, South Pakistan Paraguay Romania Senegal Structural Adjustment Turkey World Bank Zambia
- March 1, 2004
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- November 5, 2003
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- August 5, 2003
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- July 5, 2003
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