The ILR entered into agreement with Amazon yesterday to deliver the blog to Kindle devices through its Kindle Publishing program. If you subscribe to ILR through Amazon, the content will be delivered directly to your Kindle device through Whispernet. Note that Amazon impose a $ 1,99 monthly charge for this subscription and so far, the program will only work if your Kindle country setting is set to United States. Click here to go to ILR’s Amazon Page.

 

 

But, there is a workaround! You can directly download ILR in a mobi format to be used in your Kindle for free by clicking this feed in your Kindle browser. Once the feed goes to the library of your Kindle device, it will provide a link for you to update its content.

Enjoy reading ILR in your Kindle!

 

 

                                                     

 

Press Release: Indonesia’s Attorney General Lost its Power to Ban Books

The Indonesian Constitutional Court in a 7-1 ruling pronounced last Wednesday, October 13^th, that the Indonesian Attorney General is stripped from its power to ban books. This ruling is an important breakthrough for the freedom of expression in Indonesia.

Last January, two lawyers from the Center for Law Information, Rahmat Bagja and Fatahillah Hoed submitted a petition to the Constitutional Court demanding the Court to revoke Law No. 4 PNPS 1963 which provides the legal basis to the Attorney General to ban books.

The lawyers successfully pleaded their case before the Constitutional Court. The Court decided in Wednesday that Law No. 4 PNPS 1963 was invalidated. In the future, banning of books will have to be conducted through a court proceeding.  

Indonesia is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and has therefore, the international obligation to protect the freedom of expression. In the past, book banning has been used by the New Order authoritarian regime to tackle political dissents.

Jakarta, October 14^th, 2010

 

Center for Law Information (CeLI)

Indonesia Law Report (ILR)                                                             

 

Picture: Mr Rahmat Bagja and Mr. Fatahillah Hoed at the Constitutional Court’s Judicial Review of Law No. 4 PNPS 1963

 

The following titles links to World Water Week website

 

 

14:10	Concepts I - "Legal and policy development, water quality & the right to water". Dr. Riant Nugroho, Board Member the Jakarta Water Regulatory Body, Indonesia
14:30	Concepts II - "The Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) and the right to water", Ms. Natalia Uribe, UNESCO Etxea, Spain
14:50	Concepts III - "A Human Rights Based Approach to IWRM - a new initiative", Ms. Susanne Schmidt, Water Governance Specialist, UNDP
15:10	Break
15:20	Case Study I - Ecuador. "Water as a Human Right in Ecuador’s New Constitution"Ms. Sara Caria, ACRA, Ecuador
15:40	Case Study II - Indonesia. "The Potential Role of the Human Right to Water in the Management of Indonesia’s Water Resources", Mr. Mova Al’Afghani, UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Dundee University, United Kingdom
16:00	Case Study III - Tanzania. "Including quality of water in decentralized planning: a case study from Same, Tanzania", Mr. Alejandro Jiménez, Ingeniería Sin Fronteras - ISF (Engineers Without Borders), Spain

On Sept 17, one of the lanes of the main road connecting Jakarta to the Tanjung Priok port collapsed. The police had to detour the traffic to another road. The culprit blamed for the incident is abrasion from salt water (news in Bahasa Indonesia):

                               

Earlier on the 14th of September, another land subsidence occurred along Manggarai river in Sultan Agung street, causing the fence to tilt for 45 degrees (click here for more news).

Below is a video from ABCNews (2008) about the sinking of Jakarta. Main cause of the floods are solid wastes and squatters in riversides. Both causes the river to become shallow and narrow, thereby reducing its capacity during high flow. High-rise building and over-abstraction of groundwater also contribute to land subsidence and saltwater intrusion.

             

 

 

Related posts:

• Legal Policy and Development. Jakarta's Water Future (World Water Week) – UPDATE
• The Potential Role of the Human Right to Water in the Management of Indonesia’s Water Resources
• Experts: Jakarta to sink by 2025
• 14 Disturbing Facts about Jakarta's Water

 

The Human Right to Water under the Water Law? Yes. But look also at its elucidation.

 

 

If there is anything I forgot to upload into this website from the last World Water Week then it is my own presentation and pictures. So here it is. The title of my presentation is the above headline. I argue that the Human Right to Water may be able to correct structural loopholes in the current legal framework for water resources management in Indonesia. There are, however, prerequisites which must be fulfilled for such role to take place, and these are (i) building linkages between the Human Right to Water into the current judicial and legislative system and (ii) developing existing institutions, in terms of capacity, resources and mandate in order to incorporate human rights claims.

I have a draft paper to support my arguments which I decide not to share as it is still in the form of, well, a draft paper. But if you are interested, do email me at movanet(at)gmail.com I await for your feedback and comments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

H.T. Dr. Riant Nugroho for the pics

The World Water Week which ended last September 11th urge participants of the upcoming meeting of MDG High Level Plenary Meeting to pay more attention to water issues. According to the Stockholm Statement: “…water needs more attention: policy, investment and management. Continuing to neglect it is a recipe for disaster, and the failure of all MDGs.”

 

Read the full statement here.

 

 

Just to add some more tips:

1. Don’t forget to bring converters!

2. Use Kindle to read (and skip all the print papers)

3. Make sure everything is fully charged

4. Hassle first, fun later. Meaning: go through security check then find your coffee