WALHI

The Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI - Friends of the Earth Indonesia) is the largest forum of non-government and community-based organisations in Indonesia. It is represented in 25 provinces and has over 438 member organisations (as of June 2004). It stands for social transformation, peoples sovereignty, and sustainability of life and livelihoods. WALHI works to defend Indonesia’s natural world and local communities from injustice carried out in the name of economic development.

We work across Indonesia on a variety of issues including: forests, mining, fresh water management, pollution, foreign debt and corporate-driven globalization, coasts and oceans, disaster management, national policy and law reform, and good governance. We also work to ensure adequate legal representation for various community groups in their struggles to gain justice.

As a national member of Friends of the Earth International -- which is the world's largest grassroots environmental federation with 68 national member groups in as many countries and around one million individual members -- WALHI conduct campaigns with the federation and with other international networks which have the same concerns on environmental justice.

WALHI has also been working on emergency relief and community empowerment in Aceh and North Sumatera. This is being done by revitalising local community organisations for the rapid recovery of civil society in the tsunami affected areas. The relief centres during the 2005 tsunami have been listed in the below link.

http://www.eng.walhi.or.id/tsunami/reliefc/

For membership enquiries, donations, please contact our Resource Raising Division at our National Office or send an e-mail to : fund@walhi.or.id

For contact information of all their offices, please visit the below link.
http://www.eng.walhi.or.id/kontak/