PHILIP SETUNGA
Column: Indonesian Justice, UPI Asia Online
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HONG KONG, China, January 9, 2008

Just a few days prior to the New Year, Indonesia's National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas Perlindungan Anak Indonesia) published its annual report on child protection. Surprisingly, the capital of Jakarta was found to be the most unsafe city for children in the country.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AHRC-STM-006-2008
January 7, 2008

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission

WORLD: The guillotine is no solution to despair (Burma)

by Andre Vltchek

AMERICAN FICTION

All of you probably read Joseph Heller's "Catch 22," one of the greatest antiwar novels of all time. And perhaps you remember Captain Yossarian's friend Nino, a crazed bloke, who in a moment of thorough insanity, in order to sell to Germans his planeload of rotten eggs, agreed to bomb his own airport during WWII. I read Heller's masterpiece when I was a kid, about 15-years old, growing up in occupied Czechoslovakia.

by Andre Vltchek

Andre Vltcheck interviewed Mari Alkatiri on September 13, in the Sultan Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. Alkatiri was the first prime minister of East Timor, serving from May 2002 until June 26, 2006.

INTERVIEW:

Q: What is the relationship status between Indonesia and East Timor right now?

January 30, 2007

by Andre Vltchek

SAMOA — Asiana's Andre Vltchek interviewed a leader expert on climate change, currently working as Climate Change Adviser for the Secretariat of the Pacific Program on the Environment (SPREP). Mr. Ronneberg served as Vice-President of the Kyoto Conference in 1997 that adopted the Kyoto Protocol.

by Pranjal Tiwari

Five years since the declaration of the "war on terror" and suddenly everyone's a critic. Even the complacent US public seems to have had enough and in the recent congressional elections, they voted to kick out the republicans. Pranjal Tiwari takes account of the last five years of the "war on terror" and the misery and instability it has created globally.

by Keith Harmon Snow In May 2000, Bruno Manser secretly returned to the besieged rainforests of Sarawak, Malaysia. Previously deported, officially declared an "enemy of the state," Bruno evaded Malaysian security — as so many times before — for another clandestine rendezvous with his blood brothers, the Penan, the last hunter-gatherers of the island of Borneo. Fighting for their universe, hearing that their chief defender in the west had returned, Bruno's friends — like Penan leader Along Segah — waited at a nomadic camp in deep forest.

LITTLE SOMAN’S LITTLE WAR
And other portraits by an American Journalist in Afghanistan

Iriomote & Tsushima

THE END OF THE WILD CATS OF JAPAN
Japan's Unholy Worship of Big Business Wins Again
April 27, 2007

by keith harmon snow
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