Indonesia
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Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
Our strategy
Improve community infrastructure, health, resiliency and economic opportunities in Indonesia’s most challenging urban and coastal areas.
The context
About half of all Indonesians live on less than a dollar a day. Employment growth has been slower than population growth. Public services remain inadequate by middle-income standards, and health indicators are poor.
Our work
- Economic opportunity: Providing technical assistance, training and financial services to microfinance institutions throughout the country
- Health: Raising awareness and supporting mothers to practice and promote exclusive breastfeeding
- Children & Youth: Addressing childhood malnutrition through healthy, affordable food carts in Jakarta
- Water: Improving sanitation and hygiene in crowded urban areas with a mobile sludge removal service
- Disaster preparedness: Identifying and mapping areas at risk and helping those communities plan, train and practice how to respond when disasters occur
- Emergency response: Maintaining a response team ready to quickly deploy and provide immediate relief to survivors during the critical first months after a disaster strikes
All stories about Indonesia
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Indonesia: A Glimpse of Joy January 21, 2005
The bright and colorful loosely-fitting clothes on her body don’t seem to restrict Audil Mardiah from moving around scooping dirt and other trash off the ground. Audil is a 50 year-old single woman from the Darusalam area who joined Mercy Corps’ cash-for-work program there.
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Indonesia: About Mercy Corps (in Indonesian) January 17, 2005
Mercy Corps membantu rakyat mengurangi penderitaan, kemiskinan dan penindasan dengan membangun masyarakat yang aman, produktif dan adil.
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Indonesia: A Journey Into the City of Ghosts, Indonesia January 14, 2005
Nothing that I’ve gone through in my life could have prepared me for what I was about to see. I was assigned to go to Banda Aceh to assist in raising Mercy Corps’ visibility in the region affected by the earthquake and devastating tsunami waves on December 26, 2004.
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Indonesia: Picking Up the Pieces January 14, 2005
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Indonesia: Returning from "Ground Zero" January 12, 2005
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Indonesia: Reclaiming Aceh Besar January 7, 2005
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Indonesia: Four Stories from Banda Aceh January 4, 2005
Note: These stories were called in by Debbie Tomasowa, Mercy Corps Indonesia's Media Officer, from some of the most devastated areas of Banda Aceh
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Indonesia: Reflection from Banda Aceh January 3, 2005
At a tiny airport in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, the biggest humanitarian assistance effort in human history is unfolding. This area is 'ground zero' to the tsunami disaster, the first hit and the last to receive aid because of the remote location and the destruction of infrastructure.
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Indonesia: Mercy Corps Deploys Portland-Based Staffer to Southeast Asia December 27, 2004
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Indonesia: Fun With Paint - And All For A Good Cause October 27, 2003
"Fun", "exciting" and "rewarding" were just some of the words chosen by Candice, Carmnita, Sarah, Anna and Ellen to describe their daylong experience of painting community buildings in Jelambar Baru in Jakarta.