Health & Education

December 2008

News/Indonesia
Detik.com – December 1-6, 2008

Andi Saputra, Jakarta – Hundreds of environmental activists from several different non-government organisations held an action at the Hotel Indonesia roundabout in Central Jakarta on December 6 in which they painted a miniature globe on a 20 metre length of white cloth symbolising a bomb that is about to explode.

September 2008

News/Indonesia
Kompas – September 9, 2008

Denpasar – In the campaign to eradicate illiteracy, women need special priority because the illiteracy rate among women is more than twice as high as men.

August 2008

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – August 13, 2008

Papers read: Virus research, bacterial research.

Sign above door: Posyandu – Integrated Health Service Post.

July 2008

News/Indonesia
Detik.com – July 24, 2008

Ari Saputra, Jakarta – Rather than satisfying parents, the free downloading of school books from the internet appears instead to have resulted in around 50 housewives demonstrating at the Hotel Indonesia roundabout in Central Jakarta on Thursday July 24. They were demanding the free distribution of school books.

March 2008

News/Indonesia
Detik.com – March 22, 2008

Nurvita Indarini, Jakarta – Seventy percent of the earth’s surface is covered with water. Not all of it however is fit for consumption, because only around 2.5 percent is fresh water. Unfortunately the rest is salt water.

Statements/Indonesia
LMND – March 1, 2008

Beginning last Monday, the National Student League for Democracy (LMND) held two-day demonstrations in Jakarta to rally the campaign for the nationalisation of oil, gas, and mining industries.

February 2008

News/Indonesia
Berlawan – February 14, 2008

Vivi W. – Five hundred protesters from the Indonesian Student Union (SMI) held an action today on Thursday February 14 in Central Jakarta. The protest took up a number of key demands including freedom of expression, opinion and association on campus, the revocation of Directorate General for Higher Education Decree No.