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urt on hearing about this plan dozens of local people went to the location being guarded by 10 20 members of south sulawesi police mobile brigade the situation heated up as ptpn xiv failed to heed the community s protests yunus daeng empo was trying to stop the company working the land when the police shot him the situation became chaotic when brimob started arresting and shooting people zulkarnain said today read more posted by kassan at 7 50 pm no comments friday november 1 2013 a growing movement against plantations in west papua we the indigenous people of yowied village reject corporations coming on to our land in tubang district for the following reasons there is not so much land around yowied village our lives are dependent on what our environment can provide where will the future generations go the sign is tied with coconut leaves a signal that it is a sasih marker a traditional means to forbid passage similar signs can be seen in almost all villages in the area they are backed up by an agreement between all villages in the area that no one should give up their land under pain of death it s a desperate first act of defiance to a modern world they know has no place for them a plantations mega project has been imposed on merauke west papua and 2 5 million hectares of forest grassland and swamps the ancestral lands of the malind people are being targeted for oil palm industrial timber and sugar cane for now the natural ecosystem in remote tubang district is still in good condition and the malind woyu maklew people who live in the area can easily find all they need from the forest by hunting gathering and fishing the former chief of yowied village has claimed that he could easily live on only 2 a month which he would use to buy tobacco and betel nut everything else could be got from the forest throughout merauke regency in the southern part of west papua a land controversially annexed by indonesia 50 years ago indigenous communities are having to learn fast how to resist corporate manipulations in 2009 ambitious local politicians proposed merauke as indonesia s new centre for industrialised agricultural growth this was in the aftermath of the 2008 global food crisis when governments worldwide got preoccupied about national food security prompting a wave of land grabbing globally the merauke integrated food and energy estate mifee as it became known was officially launched three years ago in august 2010 around 50 provisional permits have been issued to around 20 corporate groups mostly from indonesia or south korea read more posted by kassan at 4 20 am no comments jogja not for sale not just looking for haryadi the commotion of jogja s anniversary seemed not to have subsided even though two days had passed not because it had been such a wild celebration but because something had happened to stir up jogja s street art community early on the morning of wednesday 9th october 2013 an artist was dragged to the municipal guard s barracks because of painting a mural muhammad arif was arrested for painting the words jogja ora didol meaning jogja is not for sale in the javanese language actually this action was happening for the second or third time the mural had first been painted on the actual anniversary of jogjakarta two days previously on the 7th october however before twenty four hours had passed the slogan jogja ora didol had already disappeared painted over by black paint apparently by the municipal guards then the same phrase was painted over the black paint as a response however arif s action ran into trouble when a middle aged man forced him to stop what he was doing the man ordered arif to come down from the wall he was standing on but arif didn t move in the end arif gave in as the man was pointing a pistol at him arif was brought by the man to the municipal guard s barracks to be interrogated and file an evidence report what arif was actually doing in theory was part of the urban movement looking for haryiadi festival which had been conceived by various artists and collectives around yogyakarta city the festival s art director agung kurniawan said that this movement had been sparked by concerns that city mayor haryadi had absented himself from the task of reorganising public space controlling visual pollution such as billboards and other urban problems there are also massive plans to build hotels which mean evictions and the uncontrolled growth in motor vehicles which causes traffic jams and increasingly takes space away from cyclists and pedestrians as all these problems pile up around him haryadi has just chosen to travel abroad the mayor s latest travels have taken him to spain and the united states who knows what for in the end it means thatyogyakarta is starting to become a less pleasant place to live but is it right to direct all the criticism only at haryadi or is there also someone else involved who should also be facing accusations i want to open up this possibility that haryadi is not the only one who should take the blame for the chaos in yogyakarta s urban planning of course if we see haryadi as the administrative head of yogyakarta city he s the one who must be asked to take responsibility for any chaos in urban planning he is also believed to be allowing visual pollution such as corporate advertisements affect buildings in a cultural conservation area but actually similar cases are not only happening in yogyakarta city but also other places around yogyakarta province in bantul for example traders in parangkusumo are threatened with eviction by a megatourism project which plans to develop the parangtritis area in kulon progo coastal farmers are on the point of losing their farmland because of plans to develop an iron sand mine hotel and other tourist development is also taking place in sleman and gunung kidul districts read more posted by kassan at 4 10 am 4 comments thursday october 3 2013 kulon progo farmer tukijo freed from prison tukijo finally walked free from yogyakarta prison this morning to be welcomed by his family farmers from kulon progo and supporters of their struggle there was no holding back the emotion as his friends hugged him in turn a pointless and vindictive ordeal was over at last tukijo is one of the thousands of farmers along the kulon progo coast who are defending their land from an australian mining company in partnership with the local feudal leader he was snatched from his fields by police in may 2011 and sentenced to three years in prison for doing nothing more than telling a company worker to get off the land after nearly two and a half years in prison tukijo will now be able to return to his farm to plant chillis and watermelons once again as the land has not yet been taken over by indomines for its iron sand mine whether due to it s tumbling share price a fall in demand for iron from china or the farmers determined resistance the mining company s plans have been put back again and again but the mining threat has not gone away worryingly news has come through within the last few weeks that some villagers at the far end of the mining area have accepted a downpayment from the company agreeing they would sell their land this came as a big shock to other villages which have been more centrally involved in resisting the mine they believe they are more determined in their struggle but now they can see how easy it is for a company to manipulate any weakness although the kulon progo farmers have lived on the land for generations and developed their own techniques to make the sandy dunes fertile and productive they are up against the local feudal leaders sultan hamengkubuwono x and paku alam who are claiming ultimate ownership over all land in the yogyakarta special region province where no freehold has been granted it is a dubious claim dating back to colonial times which was clearly outlawed by indonesia s basic agrarian law in 1960 however the sultan has been trying to strengthen his legal position by lobbying for new laws a national law on yogyakarta s specialness was passed last year and next week the yogyakarta provincial legislative council is expected to pass a local law which supports the feudal system around the yogyakarta region many people are not yet aware that their sultan has got his eye on their land maybe they are proud to live in an area where the javanese culture is still strong or they see the system as better than the rampant corruption which causes so many problems in other areas however several communities are aware and are resisting aside from the kulon progo farmers the community of parangkusumo is one example this coastal village is a few kilometres away from the popular tourist beach at parangtritis and is facing eviction the reason given is a moralistic one the local government claims prostitution goes on in the karaoke bars there but it is fairly obvious that the real reason is to clear the coast for tourism development so while it s good news for the moment as tukijo celebrates being able to breathe once more the fresh sea air blowing in over the kulon progo coast there are still many challenges ahead before the kulon progo farmers can finally relax knowing they have defeated the iron mine once and for all posted by kassan at 1 01 am no comments thursday september 5 2013 16 medan students on trial latest developments in the arrested medan students case the following is an interview by an fkma reporter with a student from medan conducted on the 1st of september 2013 in jakarta the aim of the interview was to find out the latest developments in a case where police arrested students in an action protesting the fuel price rise in medan last june in a clear violation of human rights fkma what are the latest developments around these arrests which have affected medan s student community student there are currently 16 students still in prison who were officially declared suspects on 16th august 2013 many of them are still suffering from broken bones from the police violence during their arrests fkma originally how many people were arrested student on the day of the action there were 87 people arrested in the end only 16 of them were officially declared suspects nevertheless this is an act of criminalisation towards the whole student movement and we are convinced it is an attempt to systematically paralyse the student movement here in medan read more posted by kassan at 12 09 am no comments monday august 19 2013 west papua freedom flotilla indigenous solidarity knows no borders two hundred years after europeans first set foot in australia indigenous australians are a tiny minority in their own land forgotten in reservations while western culture has grown rich from the land they conquered the indigenous movement in australia has not disappeared however and is aware that on the other side of the torres strait their history is being replayed in west papua indigenous papuans are also being economically and culturally marginalised their forests and mountains ravaged set against a background of half a century of military violence the freedom flotilla to west papua is an initiative of indigenous and white australians torres straits islanders and west papuan refugees who are trying to make the link between the struggles on their respective islands on 17th august they launched two boats from cairns headed for merauke in west papua read more posted by kassan at 10 32 pm no comments friday july 5 2013 demonstrators against fuel price rise in medan arrested and tortured chronology as the indonesian government made plans to reduce fuel subsidies social resistance broke out across the archipelago protesters fearing that the price rise would cause knock on rises in the cost of living that would have a devastating effect on the poorest the government has wanted to make this spending cut for several years now but popular resistance over the years has made it very difficult to push it through this time however they seem determined one action in medan north sumatra on the day the decision was taken was met with a brutal response from the police where hundreds were injured and 87 people were arrested nearly three weeks later 32 people remain in police custody although it remains unclear whether they are actually being prosecuted neither their families nor lawyers have had any access to the people who are still arrested most of whom were seriously hurt also 17 more people many well known faces from the student movement have been placed on the police wanted list as supposed intellectual masterminds of the action here s the full chronology from a participant read more posted by kassan at 9 51 am no comments thursday april 18 2013 papua prison island an expression of people s desire for freedom cries of papua merdeka continue to ring out through the cities mountains and forests of west papua the struggle is against fifty years of indonesian rule which throughout the last half century has violently tried to subdue papua in its attempts to create a unified nation from the 17 000 islands that once made up the dutch empire freedom as expressed by the word merdeka is primarily a call for political independence although the word is imbued with the clear hope that a new national sovereignty would also bring a wider liberation even when used outside the context of nations merdeka carries a sense of autonomy or self reliance from the same sanskrit root indonesian also inherited the word mahardika meaning wisdom or nobility those cries of freedom are also heard from the cells of papua s prisons where its absence is arguably felt more strongly than anywhere else the struggle for a national liberation suddenly becomes much more personal and immediate when deprived of your own individual liberty by means of police handcuffs or a judge s order prison is used as a weapon against the people and their resistance to indonesia and over the years thousands of papuans have found themselves locked away from the world behind prison bars many were arrested for expressing their aspirations for liberation mostly relatively peacefully but occasionally also for taking up arms others were merely unlucky enough to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time and got caught up in the structural violence of a justice system designed to spread intimidation throughout the entire population read more posted by kassan at 8 31 am no comments friday march 8 2013 agrarian struggle takes a deep breath notes from the second congress of the forum for communication between agrarian communities fkma not many people neither left wing activists nor intellectual defenders of agrarian justice will have ever heard his name let alone met him mukhlis a young peasant farmer from rengas village ogan ilir south sumatra was one of twelve victims shot by police mobile brigade brimob in december 2009 on that bloody friday he and hundreds of other villagers were defending the reoccupation of their land which had 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