Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – Thousands of students and workers in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta commemorated International Labour Day or May Day on Tuesday May 1.
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April 2012
Man: It’s not the politics of procrastination... but the politics of frothing at the mouth! (fuel pump reads ‘policy’)
Akhirul Anwar/JIBI, Jogja – Scores of people from the United People’s Committee (KBR) held an action in front of the Beringharjo Market on Jl. Ahmad Yani in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta on the afternoon of Friday April 27.
Khaerudin, Nasru Alam Aziz, Jakarta – The disparity and gap between those who are rich and poor in Indonesia is clearly illustrated by data on the control of national productive assets.
Loudspeaker: Subsidised fuel will be limited...
Drivers: It’s very shrill. Will it happen or not...
Man: Harmony is damaging, disagreements are damaging (a play on a Javanese proverb about family quarrels). Flag reads ‘Joint Secretariat’, sign reads ‘Fuel’.
An admission by police that members of the Indonesian military – allegedly backed by senior general – were involved in a string of motorcycle gang attacks in Jakarta over the past week that left two civilians dead and dozen of others injured, has again highlighted the military’s continuing involvement in illegal businesses activities such as nar
Chair legs: National Awakening Party, United Development Party, Justice & Prosperity Party (PKS), National Mandate Party.
Jakarta – Because the government has failed to fulfill its promise of agrarian reform, the process of rural proletarianisation continues unabated. Rural communities, the majority of whom are farmers that once owned land, have begun to loose their source of income because they no longer have control over land.
Advocates for local fishing communities say the government is turning a blind eye to illegal fish imports and ignoring a 2010 law on imported fishery products by failing to destroy illegally imported shipments, which are sold cheap on local markets by corrupt officials and are destroying the livelihoods of local fisherpeople, already struggling