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May 19, 2015 edition

After a 10-minute drive from the Kelay district community health center (puskesmas) in East Kalimantan, the rumbling engine of the ambulance gives way to the splashes of the Kelay River. Fransisca Sinambela emerges from the ambulance, shielding her eyes from the glare of the sun. It is 8am in the morning. A ketintingthe local name for a boatis waiting for her and six others on the Kelay riverbank. "Let's have an excursion along the river!" the 24-year-old woman joked late last month.
Fransisca, affectionately known as Chika, is a nurse. On that day, along with her team of colleagues, she was to start a week-long mobile puskesmas service in the area as part of the Pencerah Nusantara, carrying a complete set of medical equipment aboard a boat only about the width of an average adult.

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May 12, 2015 edition

FOR Nggaba Ndewa, electricity is magic.Until last year, the 12-year-old boy had never owned a television, nor even used lightbulbs. "My home was very dark at night. We usually used oil lamps," he told Tempo last month.

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May 5, 2015 edition

AN aerial shot of Bukit Sebayan, a fertile zone of green hills in the Tayan community forest area of West Kalimantan, can be seen on a laptop. Pius, who is the chief of Sejotang village, in the Tayan Hilir subdistrict, is in a hurry to finish mapping the customary land. "From 300 hectares, 100 have already been partitioned," he told Tempo three weeks ago.
According to the 35-year-old man, finishing the mapping is an urgent matter: Large swaths of forest are being handed out to palm oil companies and miners, and rampant bauxite mining has turned the lake into a veritable wasteland.

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April 28, 2015 edition

From Student To Entrepreneur
Makassar State University has established the Center for Entrepreneurship to nurture innovation and lower the unemployment rate. Some 58 graduates now have their own businesses.

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April 21, 2015 edition

Akriani, a resident of the Graha Lasinrang complex in South Sulawesi's Inrang regency, used to spend Rp400,000 a month on electricityRp200,000 just to operate her water pump. "Now, I only need to pay my loan installment of Rp110,000 to the local state drinking water company, PDAM, plus a usage fee of Rp25,000," explained the civil servant from Duampanua subdistrict.
Akriani is one of hundreds participating in a micro-credit water-connection scheme run by the Serba Usaha (KSU) Denas 66 Cooperative. In addition to reducing her electricity bills, she no longer runs out of water when the power gets shut off. "When the developer of my housing complex explained all this, I immediately signed up," she said.

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April 14, 2015 edition

Blessings Of A Protected Forest
Migrants in the village of Tri Budi Syukur, West Lampung regency, have struggled for years to gain the right to cultivate sections of a protected forest. They eventually received Indonesia's first-ever concession scheme for a community forest.

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April 7, 2015 edition

It was already late at night when Tempo arrived at Martinus's residence in Flores Island community of Rampasasa. Under the dim light of a solar-powered LED lamp, Petrus Antas, a tua tenoa Manggarai vernacular for a customary leaderexplained the poor living conditions of the indigenous Rampasasa pygmies. He sat surrounded by hamlet residents.
Having no ID cards, the residents do not have access to government aid programs like the People's Health Guarantee, or People's Temporary Direct Aid (BLSM). The hamlet is not reachable by public vehicles. The state electricity company PLN has promised to link the community to the electricity grid by 2014 but a year later, "nothing has happened," said Martinus as he pulled down the lamp cord to make the light brighter. But due to the many hours of cloudy skies the February day that Tempo visited, little solar energy was stored, and therefore the lamps dimmed again. Antas is the father of Rampasasa hamlet head, Martinus.

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