Posts with tag: Agriculture

Talking Indonesia: farming Indonesia with Rebecca Meckelburg

Analysis, Environment, Policy in Focus, Talking Indonesia

In this week’s episode, Dr Jacqui Baker chats with Dr Rebecca Meckelburg, a research fellow at the Institute of International Studies at Gadjah Mada University, to better understand how big state projects for agricultural transformation impact the lives of ordinary rural communities.

Does Indonesia really need a land bank?

Analysis, Corruption, Environment, Infrastructure, Law, Natural Resources, Policies, Urban planning

Plans for a new national land bank need to consider how the institution would meet the government’s goals – and benefit the people.

Talking Indonesia: palm oil and indigenous peoples

Environment, Human Rights, Talking Indonesia

As palm oil plantations expand rapidly across Papua, what are its impacts on the forests and peoples whose culture and livelihoods are inextricably linked to them? Dr Jemma Purdey discusses this and more with Dr Sophie Chao in the latest episode of Talking Indonesia.

Echo of history in Jokowi's 'mental revolution'

2014 Indonesian Elections, Analysis, Archived

Presidential frontrunner 'Jokowi' is urging a "mental revolution" to a more optimistic, self-sustaining, self-believing Indonesia, invoking the language and ideas of the Sukarno era, observes Katharine McGregor.

Posts with tag: Agriculture

Talking Indonesia: farming Indonesia with Rebecca Meckelburg

Does Indonesia really need a land bank?

Talking Indonesia: palm oil and indigenous peoples

Echo of history in Jokowi's 'mental revolution'

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