Data on the 2004 tsunami found that women were more affected than men. Its time to recognise gender in disaster response Disasters triggered by climate change are not blind to gender and age. They affect men and women, the old and the young, very differently. Sex and age are some of the most powerful indicators of how individuals will experience a disaster: who survives and who dies. Despite this,...
Periodic frictions with our closest neighbour would once have dissipated, but our historically benign image has been tempered in recent decades. Rebuilding links will be crucial Zinc, aluminium, bronze, copper and steel. These are said to reflect Australia's national identity, if you read the blurb about the new $230m Australian embassy complex now rising on a large site in Jakarta. Its offices, residences...
Mike Pezzullo faces hearing on Operation Sovereign Borders, eventually conceding that the map does show the Java coast The chief executive of the Customs and Border Protection Service says he has no idea whether a leaked chart depicting a customs vessel entering Indonesian waters in January is accurate or authentic. Mike Pezzullo, giving evidence at a Senate estimates hearing on Operation Sovereign...
Local reports link murder to robbery after Anne-Marie Drozdz from Hinckley was found in her villa on the Indonesian island A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a British teacher on the Indonesian island of Bali, according to local reports. Anne-Marie Drozdz, from Hinckley, Leicestershire, was found in the villa where she was staying in Ubud on Thursday afternoon. Continue reading......
Indonesian detectives say initial evidence points to possibility woman named as Anne Marie Drozdz was killed by villa intruder Police in Indonesia say they are investigating a possible murder after a British woman was found dead in her villa on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. The woman, named as 48-year-old Anne Marie Drozdz, was found on the floor of her rented villa in the district of Ubud...
Authorities name Suryadharma Ali, religious affairs minister and leader of PPP Islamic party, as suspect over hajj funds Indonesia's powerful anti-corruption agency has named the religious affairs minister a suspect in a graft case involving state funds allocated for the hajj pilgrimage undertaken by Muslims. "It is true that the religious affairs minister [has been] named as suspect," said...
Australian police detain men over claims servers hosting Australian and Indonesian government websites were hacked Two men who claim to be from online group Anonymous have been arrested in Perth and Sydney for allegedly hacking into Australian and international websites. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) said the men were arrested after searches of their homes in Penrith, New South Wales, and Scarborough,...
Facebook users in the EU, Colombia, South Korea, Indonesia, New Zealand and Brazil will all be able to broadcast their status as voters Facebook is rolling out its "I'm a voter" feature worldwide, after the app's success in the Indian elections in early May. More than four million Indian voters clicked the button, registering that they had voted during the country's parliamentary elections,...
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Sydney woman detained in a drug raid in February will not face MDMA and hashish charges A Sydney woman facing a marijuana possession charge in Bali has pleaded for her freedom, saying she has already told police the truth about drugs found during a raid this year. Leeza Ormsby, 37, has been kept in a Bali police cell since February 12, when she was arrested at the scene of a drug bust. Continue reading......
Calls for crackdown as investigation finds huge Indonesian corporations evading tax through network of secret shell companies in British Virgin Islands and other tax havens Giant Asian logging companies that make billions from destroying rainforests use a labyrinth of secret shell companies based in a UK overseas territory, the British Virgin Islands (BVI), which operate as a tax haven, according to...
Indonesian court helps to tear aside the veil of secrecy under which huge corporations operate in UK-linked tax havens There is a street market selling Caribbean trinkets to cruise-liner passengers, a harbour full of super-yachts, a small park with chickens running around and several banks with long queues inside them. But apart from a few middle-aged white men in expensive suits walking purposefully...
Envoy was recalled in November when President Yudhoyono learned that Australia had tapped his phone Indonesia's ambassador to Australia is about to return to Canberra, and he said this comes after sustained work to repair ties severed following last year's spying scandal. Najib Riphat Kesoema was recalled to Jakarta in November when President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono learned that Australia had tapped...
Schoolgirls from Jakarta to Timbuktu describe what education means to them and their outrage at the Boko Haram abduction The first time I heard about the kidnappings of schoolgirls in Nigeria was on Twitter, when the headline came up in my feed. I told my best friend about it and she was pretty surprised because she didn't know about it yet. Continue reading... ...
Communications minister tells BBC Australia's border protection regime is harsh but not cruel, and necessary Malcolm Turnbull says no one is entirely comfortable with Australias border protection policies, as tensions continue with Indonesia. Speaking to the BBC on Tuesday, the communications minister said Australias border protection policies were harsh, but not cruel, and were necessary to stop...
Like reject goods packed for disposal, these desperates are part of the Australian government's production line of misery Asylum seeker lifeboats stripped of safety equipment When the asylum seekers board the Ocean Protector they are stacked four by four. After days or weeks at sea, smelling of sweat and shit, the first glimpse some get of Australia is of the cramped bunk beds below deck on the Customs...
Over the next decade we will have to work hard to maintain our relevance to Indonesia. Apologising for boat turnbacks and using aid as leverage won't sustain good relations Despite consistently declaring that Indonesia is Australias most important bilateral partner, and prime minister Tony Abbott's commitment today "to continue the progress that has been made to resolve current issues and to...
The Ocean Protector has been heavily involved in asylum seeker operations since September 2010. These exclusive pictures show the quarters below deck which hold asylum seekers before they are sent back to Indonesia. All photos have been supplied anonymously to Guardian Australia Continue reading... ...
Tensions continue to escalate over Australia's policy of turning back boats: 'a very serious development' Tony Abbott has telephoned his Indonesian counterpart, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, as diplomatic tensions sparked by Australias policy of asylum boat turnbacks continue to escalate. Earlier on Tuesday, the Indonesian foreign minister, Marty Natalegawa, objected strenuously to a recent decision by...
Widow purportedly punished for having sex with married man may still be caned for affair under sharia laws of Aceh province An Indonesian woman who was allegedly gang-raped as a punishment for sleeping with a married man may still be caned for the affair under the Islamic sharia laws of Aceh province, an official has said. A group of eight men allegedly carried out the sex assault last week on the...