BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Plastic bags are one the environment’s main enemies. More than one million plastic bags are used around the world every minute and they take years and years to actually break down. In an attempt to lessen the…
Living Off The Grid – The People Who Sold Everything
Last night, Britain’s Channel 4 aired Escape To The Wild, a documentary series where presenter Jimmy Doherty finds Brits who have sold up all their property in the UK and moved out to remote parts of the world to live…
Why the Indonesian military’s “two finger test” on women needs to stop immediately
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Human Rights Watch (HRW) has recently urged the Indonesian military to abolish what is known as the “two-finger test” or virginity test for its female recruits. The test involves a medical professional checking to see if the…
When a loved one dies, this Indonesian tribe amputates a woman’s finger
BY: TED BARNABY Though death is integral it is also crippling, and often the death of a loved one leaves us with an aggressive emotional void, leaving us nearly physically incapacitated. Peoples of certain cultures believe that this physical representation…
Indonesia’s Modernization of The Mentawai Means Burning Down Villages To Make Room For Loggers
BY: PAOLO MESSINA Among the Indonesian rainforests of Siberut, off the coast of Sumatra live a people who maintain their age-old ways. In the comparative isolation of the Mentawai Islands they live a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle that is characterized by…