The charities' performances ran from reasonably effective in localized areas to downright scandalous in their opportunism to raise money around the tsunami.
Read more at http://crs.org/ By Cecile Sorra Even though Catholic Relief Services is an agency seasoned with more than 65 years' experience respondi...
Five years ago the world watched in horror as nearly 230,000 people, particularly women and children, perished in the tsunami that struck south Asia.
A survivor holds a plastic clock, plucked from the rubble of his family's home, frozen at exactly the moment the tsunami engulfed their house. There...
Earlier this year, Gandi Sulistiyanto, one of Sinar Mas' managing directors, told Reuters that, "We should have been arrested if we had ever been invo...
Scenes streaming in from thousands of citizen organizers to show their support for climate change are the perfect antidote to efforts at gridlock coming from political leaders in Copenhagen.
Thousands of protestors gathered outside the presidential residence in Indonesia Wednesday to mark International Anti-Corruption Day by rallying against a series of recent scandals that prove graft is still alive and well in Indonesia.
Many Americans know Indonesia by the numbers: the world's fourth-largest democracy and most populous Muslim nation. But fewer know about Indonesia's brand of Islam.
Security and press freedom can coexist, with the free flow of information recognized as the best weapon against terrorism, international media experts argued in a final declaration published this week.
Never has there been a more important time for Muslims to engage in greater introspection, self-evaluation. We face a Muslim world rife with conflicts, sectarian hatred, misogyny and injustice.
President Obama's visit to Asia showed how long a journey it's been since the 1955 Bandung Conference, the historic meeting of African and Asian states striving for self-determination.
On November 16th, two Greenpeace activists and two members of the press were picked up and detained by Indonesian police.
Written with Greenpeace's South Asia Media Campaigner Hikmat Soeriatanuwijaya We are now on the peatland area of Semenanjung Kampar, half an hour awa...
Monas remains significant for many reasons, but increasingly because of the lessons it provides about Indonesia, a country caught between tradition and modernization.
A drive through the Kampar Peninsula reveals hectare after hectare of forest conversion from healthy rainforest to palm oil plantations. There is no sign of animal life or biodiversity -- just row after row of palm.
Acehnese identity is intimately related to Indonesia's wish for integration into the world and historical desires for independence. Many there crave true freedom, but know it's long off.
Is this our problem? What about the 5 million flooded-out people now in India? They are if you consider yourself a global citizen and have the wisdom to see that climate change has caused these particular disasters.
Great news here! Oil companies are going to have a great opportunity to drill in the Arctic Sea floor to find more fossil fuels, because the Arctic Circle will soon be ice-free in the summers.
Just $7,700 was contributed online to Operation USA a full week after the recent natural disasters. This compares with over $1 million donated online within 24 hours in 2004 after the Asia tsunami.
"I was just thinking I have to save my Adik (little brother)", says Eman a construction worker with an incredible story of courage and survival in the wake of the recent Sumatran earthquake.
The conference on Culture and Natural Disaster was named "Screamed, Survived, Start Anew." A Thai novelist narrated his description of the tsunami of December 26, 2004.
