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Press release: A big hand for equality
Mar 08, 2012
ACT releases new report on gender equality for International Women's Day
Mentawai Islands: calmer seas in the wake of destruction
Oct 14, 2011
Immediately after the crisis, ACT focused on meeting the villagers' acute needs
Indonesia: Mentawai earthquake and tsunami response
Apr 13, 2011
ACT members YEU and CWS are working on the emergency response and psychosocial care in Mentawai
Indonesia: Mentawai earthquake and tsunami
Feb 14, 2011
ACT Alliance members continue the challenge of getting recovery goods to the earthquake and tsunami-hit Mentawai islands
Indonesia: ACT-trained students scramble to help tsunami survivors
Nov 03, 2010
Students of ACT-run disaster training put their lessons into practice when the tsunami hit last week.
Indonesia: Medical care, shelter in wake of disasters
Oct 29, 2010
Medicines, baby kits and health care - ACT goods are reaching thousands of Indonesians forced from their homes by tsunami and volcano
Indonesia: Relief from the heat of Mt Merapi
Oct 27, 2010
ACT Alliance is at the foot of Mt Merapi treating burns victims and offering shelter.
Indonesia: lessons learned from the West Sumatra earthquake
Mar 10, 2010
Important lessons on working together emerged after the West Sumatra earthquake.
Haiti: Indonesian children show solidarity
Feb 17, 2010
Last year, two major earthquakes hit Indonesia. When a new horrendous quake hit Haiti last month, Indonesians followed the breaking news with great interest and compassion.
ACT in Indonesia
Organisations with HQ in Indonesia
- Persekutuan Pelayanan Kristen Untuk Kesehatan di Indonesia (Indonesian Christian Association for Health Services) (Pelkesi)
- YAKKUM (including YEU)
International organisations in Indonesia
- Church World Service (CWS)
- Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH)
- Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA)
- The Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
- United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
- World Renew (WR) - formerly Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
Organisations funding work in Indonesia
- Brot für Alle/Pain pour le Prochain (Bread for All) (BfA)
- Brot für die Welt (BfdW) (Bread for the World)
- Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR)
- Church of Sweden (CoS)
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
- Inter-Church Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO)
- Kerk In Actie (KIA)
- Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
- Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA)
- The Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK)
- UnitingWorld Relief and Development Unit
About Indonesia
- Population: 230 million (UN, 2009)
- Capital: Jakarta
- Area: 1.9 million sq km (742,308 sq miles)
- Major languages: Indonesian, 300 regional languages
- Major religion: Islam
- Life expectancy: 69 years (men), 73 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 rupiah (Rp)
- Main exports: Oil and gas, plywood, textiles, rubber, palm oil
- GNI per capita: US $2,010 (World Bank, 2008)