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Rumah Zakat is an Indonesian NGO aiming to assist in achieving the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) through integrated community development programmes. The organisation runs the Big Smile of Indonesia campaign in addition to four “Smile” programmes in the areas of economic empowerment, health, education and environmental conservation.

All the organisation’s programmes are aimed at empowering the people who take part.

Mercy Huts

Who are you trying to help? What issue are you trying to address?

Our goal is to help the communities of the Delha region in Rote Island, West Timor in Indonesia.

We are wanting to ready this community who are stricken with poverty and a very low level of health facilities and education, for the rapid increase in tourism that is happening at the moment.
What is your project and how will it help?

The project is Mercy Huts located in West Timor Indonesia.

Sustain Sumatra is a new program for building sustainable trade and directly helping those whose lives were devastated by the Tsunami. It was formed in September 2005 as a coalition of Indonesian, American and European partners.

Coffee Kids partners with private sector to rebuild coffee farmers' community in Indonesia Whole latte love and Reliefweb

Kopernik is an on-line marketplace of innovative, life-changing technologies designed for the developing world.

Distribution of self-adjustable glasses in Manado, Indonesia. This video is about another project done by Kopernik to distribute self-adjustable glasses to poor communities in Manado.

Come2indonesia travel agency

Slow lorises are a unique group of primates found throughout South and Southeast Asia. Their vice-like grip, snake-like movements, shy nature, and most remarkably, their venomous bite, make them unique amongst the primates. They also are to many people undeniably adorable, and to others, nature’s answer to over 100 diseases. Their slow movements make them easy prey to expert hunters who literally empty the forests of these shy primates – amongst the most common mammals seen in Asia’s illegal animal markets, but amongst the rarest spotted even in Asia’s best protected forests.

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Indonesian farmers reaping social media rewards
By Karishma Vaswani BBC News, Kadaka Jaya, Indonesia

Indonesia is an economy on the move these days - and fast becoming one of the most technology-savvy countries in Asia.

PanEco

PanEco is an international non-profit foundation with headquarters in Switzerland. Our work focuses on nature conservation and environmental education in Indonesia and Switzerland. We implement our own projects and support local partner organisations by technical advice and funding