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Overlooked in the "omnibus" bill now before the Indonesian parliament: the elimination of a rule on "abandoned land".
Scrapping the rule could enable the speculative stockpiling of land by corporate investors, a practice known as "land banking".
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Support from general public and grassroot organizations in Indonesia is pouring for our friend Philip Jacobson. He’s no ordinary journalist, we see him as ‘a fighter for environment and human rights’.
#freephiljacobson
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Very proud that has just abolished legacy admissions.
As Ron Daniels argues, this is "necessary if American universities are to fulfill their democratic promise to be ladders of mobility for all."
So , , : Will you, too, do the right thing?
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One time when I was like 11 my dad took me to an Italian restaurant and the waiter asked what my name was and I said “Sam but you can call me captain ravioli” and my dad just looked at me and said “what the fuck was that? don’t do that” and I’ve been chasing that high ever since.
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I saw the first three Star Wars movies. By the time the next three came out, I was an adult and movies for children were no longer of any interest to me.
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The professors Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom believe that calling bullshit on data, big or otherwise, doesn’t require a statistics degree—only common sense and a few habits of mind.
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This is the first time has done a report on the Indonesian palm oil sector. Author calls what's happening to indigenous peoples whose lands are targeted by these companies "a human rights tragedy.”
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In #Indonesia, Indigenous peoples’ rights to their forests, livelihood, food, water, & culture adversely affected by weak laws, poor govt oversight, & failure of oil palm plantation companies to fulfill their human rights responsibilities. New @hrw report hrw.org/news/2019/09/2
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Fox News did to our parents what they thought video games would do to us.
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Just a friendly 4th of July reminder that absolutely no one is going to watch the video of fireworks you recorded on your phone
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Bali's Mount Agung erupts and spews lava as volcanic ash spreads across the sky forcing all flights in and out of the island to be cancelled -
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The saddest moment working as a journalist and reporting from the ground is that when you see your people are divided just because the elites are very greedy, what we have built for 21 years is slowly destroyed only in couple days.
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I found this to be a startling study about how oil palm development helps/harms villagers in Kalimantan. It matches what I’ve seen on the ground, but still, it’s something else when the data is laid out in front of you. Let’s have a look. /1
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Teaser vid for our story about a giant palm oil project in Papua, Indonesia, with the vote for president only days away:
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NEW 🇮🇩 at : "Who's running on Islam in Indonesia"?—Nick Kuipers runs the numbers on which legislative candidates are using religious rhetoric in their manifestos, and finds that it's rarer than anecdotal trends might lead us to expect. buff.ly/2WpNM5d
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Indonesia seeks to ban negative 'foreign' influences on music
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Cats are finely tuned killing machines
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Jakarta's ex-governor Ahok (or BTP, as he now wants to be called) set for release today after blasphemy sentence mol.im/a/6625633
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Indonesia would be the most resilient nation in the face of climate change and sea level rise twitter.com/rasarab/status
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An interesting Q&A this morning, discussing the situation in Papua and listening to stories of incredible bravery
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Someone submitted a pic of Mickey Rourke and Axl Rose to NTV as a Newfoundland couple celebrating their anniversary. It doesn’t get any better than this. twitter.com/Capelin1988/st
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We investigated the story behind a palm oil megaproject that could change the face of Papua, Indonesia—and how its owners have used all the tools of corporate secrecy to hide their identities.
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Worth reading this deeply reported / piece on how Indonesia's palm oil boom—and the resulting climate impacts—have been driven by a U.S. biofuel policy that was meant to prop up local soybean and corn farmers.
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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills:
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France - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal- 0
Denmark - 0
Australia - 0
Iceland - 0
Italy - 0
Finland - 0
Ireland - 0
Germany - 0
Netherlands - 0
Sweden - 0
Japan - 0
Chile - 0
Canada - 0
United States - 643,000
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Everyone in America should watch this.
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'I'm not asking any of you to give any blood. I'm just asking you to go and vote like you never voted before.' — Rep. John Lewis
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“The targeted elimination of peaceful activists defending human rights and the environment is now a global epidemic.”
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After Fukuyama, now this from Alan Greenspan: “Karl Marx’s Das Kapital is actually a very thoughtful book ... the premise of his argument was workable.”
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[1 year ago] The Palm Oil Fiefdom. A politician in Borneo turned his district into a sea of oil palm. Did it benefit the people who elected him, or the members of his family? news.mongabay.com/2017/10/the-pa
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