Moratorium hutan, transparansi data kehutanan dan perkebunan, serta tata kelola hutan berbasis masyarakat menjadi isu utama dalam termin kedua pemerintahan Jokowi. (Donny Sophandi/shutterstock)
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Pemerintah Indonesia seharusnya bisa lebih transparan dan membuka akses publik terkait data perubahan lahan, membuat permanen moratorium hutan, hingga menerapkan pengelolaan hutan berbasis komunitas.
Entering the second term of his presidency, Jokowi administration needs to put forest and land fires as priority.
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The Indonesian government should improve transparency and public access to land-use data, make the ban on new plantations on primary forests permanent, and give communities access to forests.
Bangladesh is a global poster child when it comes to improving women’s status in the developing and the Muslim worlds. But a recent amendment to the country's marriage law threatens its progress.
Participants in the 2015 rally organised by the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections in Malaysia.
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Participants in the latest organised by the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections in Malaysia will face a repressive state apparatus as well as an intimidating counter-movement known as Red Shirts.
Jeffrey Sachs: ‘we need to press governments to follow through on what they’ve promised’.
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Jeffrey Sachs wants to press governments to follow through on their promises.
Bangladesh’s ruling party ministers say private schools and universities are responsible for the recent surge in terrorism, which includes the attack on a bakery in Dhaka.
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If the government is serious about tackling terrorism, politicisation and increased surveillance in private schools and universities will not be enough.
Many Muslim nations fare poorly for gender equity, but there are steps they can take and examples they can follow to make sure girls are properly educated.
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Muslim countries worldwide have problems with gender equality. They dominate the bottom ten countries in the Global Gender Gap Report and none of the ten most successful countries offering equal opportunities…
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.
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In a celebration of the rights of children, the 2014 Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for going to school in Pakistan, and Kailash Satyarthi, who has been…