Tag: Indonesia

  • Nation & World

    Wildfires are much worse than a sign of climate change

    Loretta Mickley, a Harvard wildfire expert, says wildfires are not just a symptom of climate change, but with the increased burning of millenia-old global peat stores, have the potential to worsen warming.

    7 minutes
    A wildfire burns on the mountainside in West Kelowna, Canada.
  • Nation & World

    Indonesia, front and center

    Harvard Kennedy School’s Indonesia Program is using a combination of faculty research, student backing, and direct engagement with Indonesia’s elected officials to learn about and support the sprawling island nation’s democratic efforts.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Glimpses of paradise

    Photographer and Harvard affiliate Tim Laman worked with Edwin Scholes of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology to document all 39 species of birds of paradise.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Legacy of an Indonesian tsunami

    A five-year follow-up study of children orphaned by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami says that older children and younger girls were most affected, with lower school achievement, higher rates of work outside the home for boys, and earlier marriage and work inside the home for girls.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Students selected for Ash summer fellowships and internships

    The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School recently announced the students selected for Summer Fellowships in Innovation, research internships in Vietnam and Indonesia, as well as independent student research projects.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Gender bargaining in Islam

    Radcliffe Fellow Nancy J. Smith-Hefner studies the “gender paradox” among Muslim youth in Java.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    HKS receives $20.5M for Asia studies

    Harvard Kennedy School receives $20.5 million gift to start program and institute pointed at key issues confronting rapidly growing Asian countries.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    SBY attends Harvard University forum

    Visiting Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono attended a Harvard University forum in Boston, United States, to exchange views on how to improve a nation’s standard of living…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Gamelanathon!

    Stepping carefully in their stocking feet, the musicians thread their way among the array of low-lying gongs, drums, and metallophones and lower themselves cross-legged onto the floor. Lifting their padded mallets, they begin to play. The ringing sound of the metal bars, punctuated by the dry slap of the drum and the gong’s shimmering resonance,…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Gamelan rings out at Harvard

    The hypnotic, orotund tones of Gamelan, a venerable musical tradition from Indonesia that employs gongs, drums and metallophones, now resonates in University seminar rooms.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Indonesia’s strategies to fight bird flu run afoul of reality

    If Indonesia is able to execute a comprehensive bird flu plan written by the government, it will take great strides toward controlling the outbreak in the sprawling island nation, a visiting professor who has studied the region said Friday (March 9). Unfortunately, there’s little chance of that happening.

    4 minutes