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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.

Blog Post: A world most will never see ›

Topics: Urban, Marginalized Groups, Health, Food/Nutrition

Most of us in wealthy nations are used to a world of consumption - we rarely see where what we purchase is produced.

Blog Post: More happiness and laughter ›

Topics: Women's Empowerment, Emergencies, Economic Development

I feel a bit odd talking so much about happiness but, honestly, that's what I'm feeling here in Banda Aceh.

Blog Post: Today is sweet ›

Topics: Women's Empowerment, Financial Services, Emergencies, Economic Development

Banda Aceh's miraculous recovery was driven by things as small and sweet as a cake.

Blog Post: Taste test in North Jakarta ›

Topics: Urban, Health, Food/Nutrition, Children

Early this morning, I visited a couple food carts in North Jakarta, ate some healthy food and ended up being a pretty good billboard.

Blog Post: Urban fish tales ›

Topics: Water/Sanitation, Urban, Health, Food/Nutrition, Environment, Climate Change

Where there is water, men will fish. But I never imagined I'd see lines cast smack dab in the middle of Jakarta, a megapolitan city of at least 8.5 million people.

Blog Post: Fourteen ways the world changed today ›

Today, our 14 workshop students presented their photographs and written stories to the group. I am awed by what I saw and heard.

Blog Post: Exploring Jakarta's hidden city ›

Topics: Water/Sanitation, Urban, Marginalized Groups, Livelihoods, Environment, Displacement, Citizen Involvement

Today we brought more than a dozen Mercy Corps staff to Penjaringan, Jakarta's biggest slum — to continue the writing and photography training we began yesterday.

Blog Post: Storytelling 101 ›

Topics: Urban

After enduring more than 20 hours of flights to reach Jakarta, we taught a full day's worth of classes on writing and photography to 15 staff at the Mercy Corps office here.

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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