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Blog Post: Powerful earthquake hits Indonesia ›

Topics: Emergencies

Earlier today, a major earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the Indonesian island of Java. All of our staff members in Indonesia have been accounted for.

Opening the Taps ›

Topics: Citizen Involvement, Marginalized Groups, Urban, Water/Sanitation

If water is life, then Tanah Merah was dying.

Blog Post: Shaking off the numbness ›

Topics: Urban, Marginalized Groups, Displacement

Yesterday, a colleague in Indonesia told me that one of the slum areas we had visited while I was in Jakarta had been reduced to smoldering wreckage.

Blog Post: Fulfilling Cot Paya village’s dreams ›

Topics: Water/Sanitation, Rural, Citizen Involvement

My recent visit to a small village named Cot Paya in Indonesia's Aceh province was my second trip here — and much has changed since my first visit.

Blog Post: A dedication to her profession  ›

Topics: Women's Empowerment, Urban, Health, Food/Nutrition, Children

After she trained to be lactation counselor in Jakarta, Ibu Lilis says she never forgets to remind every mother she meets to breastfeed.

Blog Post: Terima kasih ›

Those days that I leave a country, after my documentary work is done, are the longest for me. But this one seems even longer.

Blog Post: Past the end of the world ›

Topics: Rural, Citizen Involvement

As we stood on a small dock overlooking the aquamarine waters that lap the port town of Tehoru, my colleague told me this is the end of the world.

Blog Post: Peace and clean on Independence Day ›

Topics: Urban, Sports, Peaceful Change, Environment, Education, Displacement, Conflict & War, Citizen Involvement, Children

Independence Day is an occasion for all Indonesians to be proud of their beautiful and diverse country — but that seems even more so for the neighborhood of Urimessing.

Blog Post: Crickets, crackers and chairs ›

Topics: Rural, Microfinance, Food/Nutrition, Financial Services, Economic Development, Agriculture

Whatever could the three things in this title have in common? Opportunity for rural Indonesian women and their families, that's what.

Blog Post: 28 stories ›

Topics: Urban, Technology & Internet, Rural, Microfinance, Financial Services, Economic Development

To be completely honest, going into a tall bank building this morning was the most unnatural I’ve felt on this trip.

Indonesia Facts

  • Population (2008): 238 million
  • Size: slightly less than three times the size of Texas
  • Human Development Index rank: 109 (out of 179)
  • Mercy Corps has worked here since 1999
  • Primary work: Financial services for poor families, access to clean water, nutrition programs for schoolchildren, breastfeeding awareness and support, and recovery programs for tsunami survivors
  • Comprising 17,508 islands, it is the world's largest archipelagic state
  • World's fourth most-populous country
  • World's largest Muslim-majority country

Program Details

Mercy Corps is in Indonesia to address the root causes of poverty, thereby improving the quality of life for disaster and conflict affected, urban and coastal communities.

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