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Climate Change Media Partnership

Jan 30, 2011 | Panos London

Panos Pictures

The media has a key role to play in raising awareness about climate change at both global and local levels. The CCMP project is an exciting programme designed to ensure this will happen.

The red lights of Jakarta

Dec 1, 2010 | Purple Romero

Working on the street makes waria vulnerable to violence and theft. They receive little protection from the police or Indonesian state. However, NGOs and civil society groups are fighting to reduce discrimination against waria. Since 2003 filmmakers and artists have held Q! Film Festival, which promotes lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual (LGTB) films. The ninth festival was held in September this year despite an Islamic group, Members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), staging rallies at the various film venues in Jakarta, demanding that the festival close down. Credits: Kemal Jufri - Panos Pictures

Our photo essay follows a day in the life of Seruni, a 23 year-old Indonesian waria, a man who has assumed a female identity. She lives in Jakarta where she makes money as a sex-worker.

The Waria’s War

Dec 1, 2010 | Purple Romero

A Waria sex worker in Jakarta / Kemal Jufri - Panos Pictures

When Bea became a sex worker in the red light district of Jakarta, Indonesia, she knew she needed to use condoms to protect herself from HIV but her clients refused to use them.

What’s a forest worth?

Nov 25, 2009 | Panos London

whatsaforest-worth

Insights from local people, journalists and scientists on the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) mechanism.

Forest rights row exposes cracks in UN climate plans

May 27, 2009 | Hilary Chiew

Indonesia | Women threshing rice in a field near Ubud. In Sumatra peasant farmers and indigenous people fear they will lose out as governments and charities take land through the carbon offset market / Chris Stowers - Panos pictures

Landless farmers, in Indonesia and Malaysia, fear they will suffer if tropical countries get cash to save forests.

K is for Kissing

Nov 28, 2003 | Panos London

Baru is 29 and lives in Java, Indonesia. He talks about the comforts of kissing.

Purple Romero

Jan 1, 2001 | Anna Egan

Purple Romero

I have worked for both online and print publications, and also dabbled in writing for television in 2010 for an election special. But I really want to be a quintessential journalist, not boxed by the medium which I write for. I do not want to be limited by the medium, I want to use it…

Harry Surjadi

Jan 1, 2001 | Anna Egan

Harry Surjadi is founder and chairman of the Society of Indonesian Environmental Journalists. He has been working as an environmental journalist for 20 years.

Kamol Sukin

Jan 1, 2001 | Anna Egan

Kamol Sukin works for The Nation Newspaper based in Bangkok, Indonesia. He has been writing environmental news since 1992 after he attended the Earth summit in Rio de Janeiro.

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