Indonesia
From helping children grow healthier to providing low-cost financial services to aspiring entrepreneurs, our program in Indonesia is nearly as vast as the nation's myriad islands.
For years, Mercy Corps has helped more than 1,000,000 Indonesians across the country's vast expanse of islands. With December 2004's tsunami, the May 2006 Java Earthquake and flooding in Jakarta, our work in Indonesia expanded. In addition to supporting disaster recovery, we're also helping mothers keep their children healthy, launching innovative programs in urban slums and have recently created a "bank of banks" designed to help small business owners to lift their families from poverty and establish strong, vibrant local economies.
Blog Post: The drawbacks of women’s equality ›
Topics: Women's Empowerment, Urban, Health, Education
There is an unrelenting pressure for women to be perfect and to do everything.
Blog Post: Can you spare a square? ›
I didn’t expect my first blog post from the field to be about sanitation. I thought maybe microfinance or agriculture programs or mobile commerce.
Blog Post: Restoring the flow ›
Topics: Water/Sanitation, Emergencies
Electricity is back up and the cell phones are mostly working again, but there is still no running water in Padang city. Mercy Corps is helping address that problem.
Blog Post: Landslides make isolated Indonesian villages resemble 'lost continent' ›
Topics: Emergencies
My colleagues and I got on motorcycles and headed north out of earthquake-stricken Padang to an isolated area we'd heard was badly affected by landslides.
Blog Post: Doing the (sometimes) heavy lifting ›
Topics: Emergencies
Today, a little physical exertion reminded me why we are working so hard, in all our different ways of working.
Blog Post: The team behind the emergency response team ›
Topics: Emergencies
With much of our team deployed as emergency responders to Padang, the work in Mercy Corps' Banda Aceh office continues.
Blog Post: Lake Maninjau ›
Topics: Emergencies, Displacement
About six months ago, I joined some friends in a trip to the beautiful lakeside town of Bukit Tinggi. Today, I returned there for a much different purpose.
Blog Post: Lead them to a better future ›
Topics: Emergencies, Economic Development, Displacement
I started my day with a cup of tea while reading a local newspaper, Padang Ekspres, this morning. The headline for today’s edition read “70 percent of the business economy is destroyed.”
Blog Post: A happy moment amid the ruins ›
Topics: Emergencies, Displacement, Children
I was busy distributing hygiene kits to earthquake-affected households when I was suddenly attracted by the sound of laughter from outside the hall.
Blog Post: Your help means a lot ›
Topics: Emergencies, Displacement
Terima kasih — "thank you" in Bahasa Indonesia — is what we keep hearing from the survivors we help. It means a lot to me and the team here. So does your help.
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