(Source: The Jakarta Post) by Ivan A Hadar According to government official data, the Jakarta groundwater condition now is very severe. It is estimated, that in the next 15 years, Jakarta will have a water
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By Ivan Lim, Philipp Kauppert, FES Jakarta, March 2010 By signing a Free Trade Agreement with China, ASEAN expects to strengthen its bargaining position for international trade. Being one of the key members of ASEAN,
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By: Martin Manurung* Facing the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA), workers and employers stand on the same position. This is an unusual phenomenon. Both are screaming for help facing tremendous consequences of the implementation of
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Denden Alicias, July 20091 Participatory governance processes have mushroomed around the world but a number of studies have already pointed out to the failures of sustaining the participatory projects and in empowering ordinary citizens.  In this article, I draw attention to a complicated set of enabling  factors  for  success  in participatory governance.   The  insights
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by: Fawaz Abd Aziz Roots and Spread of Financial Crisis After the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the US first burst into the headlines of mainstream newspapers in June 2007[1], there have been two general categories of the many discussions that have taken place regarding the roots of the global financial – and now, economic –
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Ivan Hadar ( JakartaGlobe, 25 August 2009) In her visit to Indonesia, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Indonesia was not only the most populous Muslim country in the world, but also had been able
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By: Walden Bello and Mara Baviera (Monthly Review, 8 July 2009) In 2006–08, food shortages became a global reality, with the prices of commodities spiraling beyond the reach of vast numbers of people. International agencies were caught flatfooted, with the World Food Program warning that its rapidly diminishing food stocks might not be able to
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by Ivan Hadar (published in Jakarta Globe, July 29, 2009) In 2007, the SBY-JK administration proclaimed its “1,000 Towers” plan, the provision of one million high-rise apartments, mostly in Jakarta and other large cities in Java, to address a growing housing crisis. According to official estimates, the demand for housing in Indonesia has reached at
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by: Ivan Hadar (published in Jakarta Post, July 25, 2009) Globally, every seven seconds a child under ten years old dies from hunger. Meanwhile, according to research released by the UN in 2008, some 826 million people around the world are permanently suffering severe malnutrition. In Indonesia, news of malnutrition and deaths caused by starvation
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