Protected Forest for Rent!

Only two month after hosting the COP-13 of UNFCCC and amid of serial disasters, Government of Indonesia under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) renew the regulation of commercial activities inside the protected forest.

Protesting the Rich

Dozens of people rally outside the Japan Embassy on Jakarta thoroughfare, Jl. Thamrin, on Monday to protest the G8 summit hosted by the country in Toyako. The protesters blamed the rich countries for the soaring global fuel and food prices. (JP/J. Adiguna)

Oil Boosted, SBY-JK Broke promise!

INDIESBLOG | Jakarta (6/5)—Peoples still considering promise President SBY at November 2007, which will not boost up the price of oil. But like other politician promises, nothing that is coincided. Monday (5/5) then, through limited meeting of minister of economics, President SBY breaks promise by announcing the plan to boost up the price subsidizes oil.

Venezuela’s labour movement at the crossroads

By Kiraz Janicke and Federico Fuentes

April 29, 2008 — Venezuelanalysis.com — First came the decision by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on April 9 to re-nationalise the Sidor steel plant—privatised by a pre-Chavez government in 1997—after a long workers’ struggle.

The World Bank is incapable to talk on Poverty!

Criticism to the Opinion of the Country Director of World Bank Indonesia, Joachim von Amsberg on Oil Subsidy in National Budget 2008

Press Release of Institute for National and Democratic Studies
No. 03/pressrelease/e/sekre.indies/III/2008

Criticism of Country Director of World Bank Indonesia, Joachim von Amsberg to the oil subsidies national budget (APBN) 2008 is a trapping sight. Fomentation for removing the oil and transfers it to infrastructure project is camouflage to force Indonesia maintains neoliberal policies. Whereas, the neoliberal policies is main caused of Indonesian misery.

Studies: Iraq costs US $12B per month

By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent

The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the “burn” rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and co-author Linda J. Bilmes report in a new book.