Destroyed Rainforest Of Indonesia

‘GfbV’ says that this week 20 people were killed as a result of fights between the Indonesian army and armed aboriginal citizens of Papua. Since the beginning of this year or even longer the latter have been fighting against the Indonesian army as aboriginal Papuans feel they are discriminated against by non-aboriginal citizens of Indonesia and as medical treatment is awfully insufficient for those aboriginal Papuans who for one reason or another need to live in Indonesian refugee camps.

‘GfbV’ says that this week 20 people were killed as a result of fights between the Indonesian army and armed aboriginal citizens of Papua. Since the beginning of this year or even longer the latter have been fighting against the Indonesian army as aboriginal Papuans feel they are discriminated against by non-aboriginal citizens of Indonesia and as medical treatment is awfully insufficient for those aboriginal Papuans who for one reason or another need to live in refugee camps.

The January-sample of the German monthly newspaper ‘GEO’ had an article about the production of rubber. It says that children and adolescents working in rubber plantations are exposed to many hazards, especially biological hazards such as attacks by snakes. Rubber plantation is usually far from the residential areas and workers are therefore working in isolated places where looking for helps is difficult when facing problems such as harrasments. Another hazard is the use of sharp tools to perform works such as cutting the plants.

The German party ‘Partei Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz’ is a party known for caring a lot about environmental issues. This week they thus had great news from Indonesia to publish: By producing thousands of tons of plastic waste a day Indonesia has become the biggest producer of plastic waste after China.
Thus Indonesia’s government now decided to make a contract with the UN in which Indonesia promises its contract partner to reduce Indonesia’s plastic waste by 70% until 2026.
Sceptics say this will only be possible by making the people want to ban plastic bags as they are the biggest source of plastic waste.

Today in church I heard for the first time of the island Sumba in Indonesia. The ground of this island hardly absorbs rain water. Thus especially in the North East long droughts are not too uncommon. The drought they face this summer however really stands out. As there is little to no work outside the agricultural sector on Sumba many people thus felt forced to abandon their dry fields and to leave the island to find work somewhere else. However there also are families that are forced to stay as they can’t afford this. Often the women and girls in these families have to work day and night as weavers to compensate for the lack of money the family normally would earn by farming. The situation only is worse in families that to save their financial existance force their girls into marriage, sell them as child-laborers or simply use physical violence on these young girls to let out their frustration and desperation.