Motto: Si Tou Tumou Tou (Men live to help others live)
Location: North Sulawesi, East Indonesia
Coordinates: 1°30′00″N 124°58′00″E
Size: 157.26 km² (60.7 sq mi)
Population: ± 417,548 (2005)
Climate: 29°C average with 75-85% humidity, heavy seasonal tropical rainfall
Mayor: Jimmy R. Rogi (Golkar Party)
Religion: Christian, Islam, Hindu, Buddhism
Language: Bahasa Indonesian, Dutch, English
National currency: Indonesian Rupiah
Main Industry: Coconut products, spices and ecotourism, especially diving.
Manado is the capital of the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia on the island of Sulawesi, which is the fourth largest island in Indonesia after Kalimantan, Sumatra and Papua. Manado is located on the Bay of Manado and is surrounded by a mountainous area consisting of volcanoes.
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Manado, North Sulawesi
A brief historical timeline of East Indonesia
3-4000 BC – Malay, Vietnamese and Chinese migrate from
South East Asia
12th century - Arab traders laid the foundations for the spread
of Islam
1292 - Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to set foot
on the islands
1509 - Portuguese established trading posts in pursuit of spices
16th century - Dutch took control of some of the easternmost
islands from the Portuguese
1658 - The Dutch East India Company built a fortress in Manado
and established greater control for the next two
centuries. Christianisation by Dutch missionaries.
1816 - a series of long and bloody wars were launched by the
local people against the Dutch colonial government.
1944 - Manado was heavily damaged by allied bombing during
brief Japanese occupation in World War II.
1945 – Indonesian independence
1958 – Jakarta central government bombed Manado to rid rebel
movement Permesta
1999-2002 – Religious persecution of East Indonesian islands,
due to an Islamic Jihad declared by extremists
against the Christian community. In the hardest hit
areas of Maluku and Central Sulawesi, it is
estimated over 8,000 people were killed and
hundreds of thousands fled their homes. Many of
the survivors sought refuge in Manado.
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Why are we partnering with Manado?
Today, Manado provides a snapshot of the unequal distribution of wealth in the world. As a tourist you may visit Manado for a diving holiday, stay in one of the upcoming resorts and enjoy the very newly built shopping centres, but you may fail to see the poverty that exists just beyond these new areas of development. For some 40,000 people in and around the city the inequality is strikingly obvious as they struggle to survive each day, living on or below the poverty line of just US$2/day.
Manado is the main access point to the very poor eastern islands region of Indonesia, where 95% of people in rural communities are poor, and Manado is therefore seen as a strategic platform from which to help this region.
The UN signed Millennium Development Goals aim to half global poverty by 2015.
Manly-Manado is helping to achieve many of these goals, especially Goal 1, 2, 3 and 8 and is helping to Make Poverty History through local action. If there is any country in the world we in Australia have the most ability and responsibility to help and partner with, then surely it is Indonesia, our local developing neighbour.
Manly has a history of working in the Manado region of East Indonesia since year 2000. Since that time a number of Manly residents have been helping the people of Manado and neighbouring islands that have suffered from religious conflict, internal displacement, transmigration policies or simply through impoverished circumstances and environment.
Inequalities in Indonesia
Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world with a total number of 17,508 islands and is the world’s fourth most populous nation with 231 million after China, India and the USA. The topography and no. of islands has separated groups of people from each other, resulting in extraordinary differences in language and culture. Indonesians are divided into approximately 300 ethnic groups that speak some 365 languages and dialects.
More than half of Indonesia's 231 million people are poor. Most struggle to survive on less than US$2 a day, and are at risk of even more severe poverty. About 18 per cent live on US$1 or less. The poorest areas of Indonesia are the remote eastern islands, where 95 per cent of people in rural communities are poor.
• Approximately 1/3rd of Indonesian children under the age of five are malnourished.
• Some 162,000 Indonesian children die every year before reaching age five.
• Around 3 million Indonesian children are in the labour force.
• Nearly 3 million Indonesian children do not attend school and an estimated 1 million children drop out of school each year. Only 50 per cent of children complete schooling.
• Thousands of women and children fall victim to human trafficking annually and are forced or lured into the commercial sex trade.
• Indonesia’s HIV/AIDS crisis threatens to become a full-blown epidemic.
• Malaria strikes up to 20 per cent of Indonesians.
• More than 100 million people lack adequate sanitation, and more than 40 million people do not have access to safe drinking water sources.
• In the last 20 years the nation has struggled to overcome the Asian financial crisis and battles with persistent poverty, unemployment, inadequate infrastructure and endemic corruption.
• Political and inter-communal conflict and violence across the archipelago has displaced an estimated 1.4 million women and children.
• Approximately 60 per cent of the population live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source of livelihood.
• A series of subsequent disasters have affected Indonesia, including earthquakes, tsunamis, outbreaks of polio and avian (bird) influenza.
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