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View all search resultsAny climate agenda must involve indigenous peoples, who play a vital role in tacking global warning through the traditional wisdoms they have applied to managing their customary forests and lands, long before "climate change" entered the global lexicon.
Faith in the implementation of President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship “3 million homes” program has waned after it was recently excluded from the list of National Strategic Projects (PSN) as outlined in the Coordinating Economy Minister’s Regulation No. 16/2025. The setback comes following the annulment of the 2016 Public Housing Savings (Tapera) Law, which was expected to serve as a cornerstone of the government’s affordable housing drive by providing a sustainable funding source for the housing finance liquidity facility (FLPP), which provides low-interest mortgages for low-income households (MBR) under a subsidy scheme.
Amnesty International annual human rights report raises a red flag on a decline in freedom of expression and the press as well as an increase in oppression by security forces against government critics, sounding an alarm against the rise of authoritarianism in Indonesia.
As many observers noted prior to the inauguration of Prabowo, a former Army general, the potential for creeping militarism in governance and civilian affairs during his presidency could undermine the country's progress in democracy and human rights for which countless many have shed tears and blood.
Rights groups have condemned a clash that erupted on Wednesday between the private security personnel of developer PT MEG and local residents that refuse to leave their land to make way for the Rempang Eco-City development project.
Indonesia has seen little to no progress in shifting the focus of development away from Java over the past decade, notwithstanding the promise of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to even out economic activity across the country.
Komnas HAM report outlined that the police had been consistently involved in human rights abuse cases related to strategic national projects and businesses, including high-profile cases such as the development of the Rempang Eco City on Rempang island, Riau Islands province, and a petrochemical and refinery factory in Air Bangis village, West Sumatra.
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