International Law

Monitoring, Oversight, Accountability: the role of human rights (World Water Week)

Posted on September 09, 2010
This session on Human Rights is chaired by an official from the German's BMZ. The Indepent Expert on Human Right to Water explains the role of accountability in delivering Human Rights. Without accountability/oversight, human rights will not be served...

Legal Policy and Development. Jakarta's Water Future (World Water Week)

Posted on September 09, 2010
Legal and policy development, water quality & the right to water riant nugroho.pptx (1841 KB)View this on posterous Dr. Riant Nugroho's Presentation at the World Water Week is extremely interesting. The presentation unveils the condition of Jakarta's ailing water resources and services...

MDG Monitoring (World Water Week)

Posted on September 09, 2010
Participants of a session on MDG at the world water week discusses the importance to develop additional indicators to monitor the MDG. Gerard Payen of Aquafed chairs the session. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone

Leader's Dialogue (World Water Week)

Posted on September 08, 2010
Moderator: Margaret Catley-Coxon Thai minister Suwit Khunkitte explains the condition of Thai's water resources. They tried to implement Water Grid System and introduce capacity building. The minister considers that more water does not lead to more productivity...

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Indolawreport goes to World Water Week

Posted on September 06, 2010
    Packing for Stockholm: BothEnds and several other NGOs/IGOs are planning to hold a side event on this September?s Stockholm world water week. The topic: Human Rights Based Approach to Improving Water Quality.    Chair: Mr...

Indonesia Law Report to be archived by the Library of Congress

Posted on September 02, 2010
Good news and an honor for Indonesia law Report. I have received the following email from the Library of Congress: The United States Library of Congress has selected your website for inclusion in the historic collection of Internet materials related to Legal Blawgs...

Encourage your government to ratify the UN Watercourses Convention

Posted on September 02, 2010
  The WWF launched postcard campaign to encourage more ratification of the UN Watercourses Convention. In order for the convention to be in force, another 16 ratification would be necessary. Indonesia has land border with East Timor, New Guinea and Malaysia...

Drinking Water Quality Regulation Updated

Posted on September 01, 2010
Last April, the Ministry of Health updated drinking water quality regulation. The Permenkes 492 contains minimum obligatory standard of drinking water quality parameters that should be followed. The Permenkes also obligates examination of drinking water quality by water quality providers and government agencies...

More on evernote for legal practice

Posted on August 26, 2010
    Here a list on what evernote can do to enhace your legal practice: As a blogging tool for legal bloggers (of course!) Research tool (collection of snippet and bookmarks) and digital filing cabinet. Customer relation management (CRM) tool Client tagging, note taking, auto forwarding from website contact form I think evernote is good to be used for start-up lawfirms or those with SOHO (Small Office Home Office) practices...

Evernote for Lawyers

Posted on August 25, 2010
    Many lawfirms are investing thousands of dollars for Knowledge Management software only to discover that their lawyers and workers find a hard time implementing it because they are not user-friendly. The reason why most KM software doesn?t work is because they are not embedded in your daily life; the inputs are tedious and time-consuming...

Human Right to Water vs Integrated Water Resources Management?

Posted on August 19, 2010
  OK, maybe not quite a ?vs?. Tension might be the right word. And here is a paper discussing the topic. Of all the criticism towards the human right to water, this paper might be among those which are most coherent. According to the author: Abstract: Water resources management has been shaped by a variety of paradigms reflecting the evolution of government policies and transient societal values...

Experts: Jakarta to sink by 2025

Posted on August 17, 2010
  High tide floods 2007: ?Signs of a sinking Jakarta?     Source: Presentation by Hongjoo Hahm and Janjaap Brinkmann (World Bank)   Brinkman?s statement that Jakarta might sink by 2025 was widely quoted by the media: 'The major reason for this is not climate change or whatever, but just the sinking of Jakarta,' said Mr Jan Jaap Brinkman, an engineer with Dutch consultancy Delft Hydraulics, who worked on the study...

ADB?s Citarum Project in Aljazeera

Posted on August 15, 2010
    ADB is planning several million dollars project to restore the quality of Citarum river in West Java, the main supplier of bulk water to downstream cities such as the capital, Jakarta. The ICWRMIP will restore riverbanks along the Citarum...

Jakarta?s water leakage is at 50%

Posted on August 15, 2010
Now, on to water services. VOA interviewed Jakarta Water Regulator who told that the rate of non-revenue water in Jakarta?s Water Supply System is around 50%. NGOs such as the Mercy Corps has been quite successful in engaging with local community in Penjaringan district in order to help them build water storage infrastructure...

Transparency in the Judiciary (WB Publication)

Posted on August 10, 2010
I argued once that one of the method in curbing corruption in the judiciary is by enhancing its transparency. Most of you might be familiar with the famous formula developed initially by Klitgaard: Corruption= (Monopoly+Discretion)-(Accountability+Transparency)...

Dropbox available for Blackberry!

Posted on August 10, 2010
  Access your PC files using Dropbox for blackberry.   Dropbox is a tool for back-up and syncing files across computers. Now you can access files stored in your Dropbox using the blackberry app (beta). First of all, sign up for Dropbox here (if you click on that referral link you will get extra 250 MB)...

Text of the UN Resolution on the right to water and voting records

Posted on August 03, 2010
  Quick blogging. For those of you who are looking for the text of Doc A/64/L.63/Rev.1 , adopted as the UN General Assembly Resolution on the Right to Water and it?s voting records, click here for the resolution and here for the voting records.

Confidential reports on Lapindo mudflow leaked to wiki

Posted on August 03, 2010
  Two confidential reports about Lapindo mudflow were uploaded to wikileaks. Here?s an excerpt from the wikileak page: UK geologists downplayed Lapindo's argument and concluded that the earthquake was merely coincidental. While it could have generated a new fracture system and weakened strata surrounding the Banjar-Panji 1 well, it could not have been the cause of the formation of the hydraulic fracture that created the main vent 200 m (660 ft) away from the borehole...

Private water operators ??celebrate the recognition of the Human Right to water and sanitation?

Posted on July 30, 2010
Reiterating my previous post that international human rights law is basically agnostic with respect to the choice of ownership, you will now find an interesting press release from Aquafed, the federation of 300 strong private water providers. In a July 29 Press Release, Aquafed conveyed that private water operators ??celebrate the recognition of the Human Right to water and sanitation by the United Nations General Assembly...

UN Resolution on the right to water and the ?Geneva Process?

Posted on July 29, 2010
UN finally adopted the text Resolution on the right to water and sanitation (122 in favour, 0 against and 41 abstentions) yesterday. I had predicted that more vagueness on the text may be necessary in order to attract a higher degree of compromise. I have not seen the adopted text myself, but the UN press release mention Spain?s position which may depicts the trade-off: Still, water and sanitation were components of the right to a suitable life under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, he said, expressing regret that proposals to include language on the independent expert?s work had not been taken into account But anyway, this is just my guess...

Immunity from prossecution under Art 66 of the new environmental law?

Posted on July 28, 2010
Mobile blogging. I came across this provision while reviewing the new environmental law. Art 66 provides immunity for those fighting for environmental justice from prossecution. The elucidation of the law explains that the provision is meant to protect victims and complainer from retribution...

Draft UNGA Resolution on the Right to Water ? What is Indonesia?s Diplomatic Position?

Posted on July 23, 2010
  Quick blogging. Sponsored by Bolivia, next July 28th the UN is moving towards embodying the human right to water in the form of a UNGA Resolution. The current content of the right to water is clarified by the General Comment 15 (GC-15) and reports produced by the Independent Expert on the Right to Water and Sanitation...

Good News Everyone: Join Dropbox and get 2.250 GB of free storage

Posted on July 16, 2010
  In the previous posts, I explained two significant uses of Dropbox: to sync your MS Word Document across computers and sync your Endnote libraries, styles, filters and connections.  What I forgot to explain is what dropbox is all about. This video explains it all: And, as Professor Farnsworth says: good news everyone, if you join through this referral, you will get 2...

Report on the human rights aspect of private sector participation in the water sector

Posted on July 15, 2010
Quick blogging. Finally the long awaited report from the Independent Expert (IE) is out. The report emphasize the importance of transparency, participation and accountability in water projects involving the private sector. On the transparency side, the IE even suggests that "Commercial confidentiality must not jeopardize the transparency requirements provided for under the human rights framework"...

Science is not value-neutral

Posted on July 15, 2010
      And so does social ?sciences? and the law. Picture: Taken from The Copenhagen National Museum

Howto: Autosave your ms word doc in Dropbox

Posted on July 13, 2010
  This is a tip to my fellow countrymen ph.d, master students, and anyone else working with MS-Word in multiple computers. As you know, dropbox is a tool to sync, store and (optionally) share your data in the cloud. It gives you a 2GB of storage capacity...

Howto: Sync your Endnote libraries, styles, filters and connections using dropbox

Posted on July 13, 2010
  Hello again researchers!   Your Endnote contains the list of literatures and authorities you used for your research paper. It may also contain your research data itself, attached to the bibliography in endnote. For sure, you want it to be safe and if possible, retrievable from any location which has endnote software in it...

Sneak Peek of EPSCA 10

Posted on July 06, 2010
The E&P Sharing Contracts and Agreement 2010 is taking place in the 6th until the 8th of July in the Grand Hyatt, Jakarta. Master Class A is taking place on the 6th of July with the topic ?Structuring, Negotiating and Managing EPC Contracts in the Oil and Gas Industry?...

The Fly: SBY vs Obama

Posted on June 19, 2010
H.T. to Mulia           It?s time for weekend intermezzo. Speaking about summer time, want to see how presidents fares with disturbing flies? Watch the video.   Well, looks like our President needs a bit of pesticide...

Still on Investment?s Negative List 2010

Posted on June 16, 2010
Image via Wikipedia   The World Bank once says that Indonesia?s negative list is by no means a simple system. Here?s a list of news and analysis discussing the 2010 negative list:   There?s a good article about this in HPLaw?s website: PR No...

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