Indonesia
From helping children grow healthier to providing low-cost financial services to aspiring entrepreneurs, our program in Indonesia is nearly as vast as the nation's myriad islands.
For years, Mercy Corps has helped more than 1,000,000 Indonesians across the country's vast expanse of islands. With December 2004's tsunami, the May 2006 Java Earthquake and flooding in Jakarta, our work in Indonesia expanded. In addition to supporting disaster recovery, we're also helping mothers keep their children healthy, launching innovative programs in urban slums and have recently created a "bank of banks" designed to help small business owners to lift their families from poverty and establish strong, vibrant local economies.
Blog Post: Leaving the past behind ›
Much of the beauty and peacefulness of Lamteungoh village is the result of tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction programs — and hard work.
Blog Post: Panic in my neighborhood ›
Suddenly, on a hot Sunday afternoon in north Jakarta, many scattered crowds of people rain through our neighborhood while shouting “Fire...fire!”
Blog Post: Faster is better ›
Every morning at 3:30, Ridwan starts making tempeh. He’s been doing this for almost 18 years. But, these days, it's just a little easier.
Blog Post: Morning mood ›
People who can start a day at the earliest time — feeling energized by the sunshine like they can rule the world when the morning comes — always amaze me.
Blog Post: Lasting change ›
Lasting change — the important kind — comes from teaching people how to do things differently and supporting them along the way.
Blog Post: The drawbacks of women’s equality ›
There is an unrelenting pressure for women to be perfect and to do everything.
Blog Post: Can you spare a square? ›
I didn’t expect my first blog post from the field to be about sanitation. I thought maybe microfinance or agriculture programs or mobile commerce.
Blog Post: Restoring the flow ›
Electricity is back up and the cell phones are mostly working again, but there is still no running water in Padang city. Mercy Corps is helping address that problem.
Blog Post: Landslides make isolated Indonesian villages resemble 'lost continent' ›
My colleagues and I got on motorcycles and headed north out of earthquake-stricken Padang to an isolated area we'd heard was badly affected by landslides.
Blog Post: Doing the (sometimes) heavy lifting ›
Today, a little physical exertion reminded me why we are working so hard, in all our different ways of working.
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