Andreas Harsono, some 20 years after his award-winning reports on Jakarta's water privatization (in English)

Andreas Harsono is a senior journalist and a human right activist. He has written several reports on the case of water privatization especially in Jakarta. He links the privatization issue with democracy and accountability in governance as well as the Indonesian historical trajectory in infrastructure development and public policy making. Around 20 years after his reports on the case of Jakarta were published, the issues he has raised are still highly relevant: the absence of transparency and real participation in public policy making. It is so valuable to have him in this episode as he has reported on many other relevant themes such as transportation and other urban infrastructures, mining, environmental issues, state-sponsored violence, and discrimination of  ...