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Press Release JATAM Kaltim - October 12th, 2009   10th Year of East Kutai Anniversary

(Samarinda, October 12th, 2009) Today the East Kutai commemorates its tenth anniversary. Currently 80% of East Kutai GDP depends on coal mining, which has been proved lethal. There are about 48 percent of its 203,156 citizens are poor. Surprisingly, about 45 percent of those populations inhabit areas in the vicinity of PT Kaltim Prima Coal (PT KPC) mine, owned by Bumi Resources, the largest coal scraper in Southeast Asia. Indeed, this tenth anniversary of East Kutai is more like to celebrate the gigantic scale colonization by PT KPC.

Poor to rich countries: PAY YOUR DEBT!

Activists from around the globe rally to call for rich countries to pay their debt concerning climate crisis

Jubilee South APMDD (Asia Pacific Movement on Debt & Development), September 30, 2009“Pay your ecological and climate debt!”

This was the demand of different climate, debt and development activists from south countries to rich industrialized nations as they conducted a protest action today in front of the United Nations ESCAP building, the venue of the UN Climate Change talks. The said event is reportedly part of a series of five major negotiating sessions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) leading to the UN Climate Change summit in Copenhagen this December 2009.

CSF Press Release, Jakarta – 25 September 2009

Jakarta (25/9) – Climate change is an urgent global problem whose solution requires commitment from industrialised nations. The next important negotiations are the Bangkok Intersessional Meetings on Climate Change which will take place from 28 September to 9 October 2009. Indonesia’s Civil Society Forum for Climate Justice (CSF) is concerned about the lack of progress in previous negotiations and fears that this time too, the meeting will be limited to business negotiations between countries emitting pollution and countries buying emissions, rather than focusing on efforts to find a way of addressing the disaster of global warming.

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