By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — Indonesia has launched a sweeping and militarized crackdown on illegal forest use, reclaiming ...

Yudi Rusfiana, Dewi Kurniasih, The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Promoting Social and Political Change in Indonesia, Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3 (2024), pp. 187-207 ...

At a World Health Organization event in 2021, Mafindo board member Santi Indra Astuti outlined the organization’s overarching belief that solutions to misinformation should “avoid government ...

A: A non-governmental organization is a group that, as the name implies, operates independently of governmental control. The usual purpose of an NGO is to promote a policy or provide services.

And one of our society’s biggest falsehoods-in-a-name: “Non-governmental organizations.” Until recently, these groups have been widely seen as international, idealized versions of domestic ...

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) focusing on human rights play a vital role in the deliberations of decisionmakers in national governments and international organizations.