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allows for analysis of the subject matter’s legitimacy. The topic presented in the Obidzinski et al. article discusses the effects of growing only palm oil in Indonesia in terms of environment and socioeconomic impacts. Dr. Roth assigned this reading because it has many themes which relate to our class discussions. For example, the state of Indonesia draws some parallels with the case study of the Sahel famine. Some other notable aspects are the discussion of power in class and the way the law…

CHAPTER I 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND PT Astra International is the biggest independent manufacturing company in south Asia. This company was established in 1957, the company is located in Jakarta, Indonesia before 1990’s, and this company name was PT Astra International Incorporated. There are several types of businesses that were developed by PT Astra International. They developed their businesses all over the world and they are engaged in many types of product and services,…

location. Penang Port has a good network with Thailand and Indonesia and also know as the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT). Malaysia has good network with Thaialnd and Indonesia. (Asean Ports Association Malaysia, 2010), Penang Port can be positioned as a regional transshipment hub and upgraded to be one of the major container ports in the Bay of Bengal. The figure below show the map of IMT-GT. FIGURE1.3 Map of Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle 1.2.1…

Policy under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon (SBY) was the sixth president of Indonesia after Megawati Sukarnoputri. SBY was the Indonesia military office, political and government official who was the first popularly elected president of Indonesia since 2004 till 2014. After Indonesia strengthen domestic politics and reaffirmed its role in international affairs in 2004, “Indonesia managed to hold direct presidential elections and general elections in 2004, created a new…

Traffic In Jakarta Have you ever imagined being stuck in traffic worse than New York? If you haven’t, then you’ve never been to Jakarta. The capital city of Indonesia that is home to roughly ten million people has to endure in such distress in their daily commute that has to travel twice less of an average speed in New York said Greenfield. This traffic is greatly caused by the impacted population that the city has to accommodate, the lack of public transportation and the slow-growth of roads…

My motivation for pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at UC San Diego (UCSD) emanates from my lifelong goal to be a leading scholar in the fields of International Relations and Comparative Politics, teaching and conducting research at a major research university. UCSD’s Department of Political Science’s model of cross-disciplinary work, ethos on close mentoring and supervision, emphasis on methodology and multivariate analysis, wealth of world-class faculty across subfields, combined with the…

only produced by the flame of trees, but also smouldering peat releasing huge carbon and persistent smoke (Gaveau 2014). Consequently, Indonesia’s carbon stock degradation reaches 217,000 tonnes per year (FAO 2011) Some parties get benefits from Indonesia deforestation like big palm-oil company and small scale farmers because of the lower cost they get in freeing the land than by sustainable method (Howes and Wyrwoll 2012). However, costs of deforestation of course highly affected on local and…

that workers are treated fairly and humanely in order for the benefits of globalization to be shared universally. In Indonesia, the Labor Ministry, a government institution, is responsible for enforcing all standards, such as wages, hours, and working conditions, and implementing penalties when these standards are violated (“Indonesia Human Rights”, 2015). Each province of Indonesia has their own minimum wage, which is based on the amount deemed appropriate for the workers to live decently. The…

Being the largest nation in ASEAN, makes the general headquarter of ASEAN located in Indonesia, which raise up the importance of Indonesia to Japan (Purba, 2001). Both countries relations have been running well since the end of World War II despite of the invasion by Japanese to Indonesia. The official relationship was started in 1951 that Indonesia acquired ¥288 billion from Japan after Tokyo reached a decision to remunerate war restitution to South East Asian countries…

Palm oil is a type of edible oil that comes from the palm fruit. The palm tree originated from Africa, but can grow anywhere with abundant rainfall and warm temperatures. Most of the world's palm oil is exported from Malaysia and Indonesia, but can be grown in North America, South America, Africa, and Asia. Palm oil is used in many products, ranging from margarine to washing powder, and is found in every one of two grocery products. Due to an increasing demand for bio-fuel and the palm oil's…