Yayasan Merah Putih
Since 1992, YMP has focused on advocacy work and on efforts to empower local communities in Central Sulawesi, both indigenous peoples and peasant societies.[1] Yayasan Merah Putih is an independent organization that has a strong civil society movement among local communities in Central Sulawesi, providing them both with the skill and ability to manage their natural resources and sustain their environment, based on all local resources, including economic, political, social and cultural aspects, to ensure good circumstances of life, justice, and non-violence.Today YMP's efforts focus on two groups of people: helping the Tau Taa Wana deal with the process of social change that is engulfing them, and working with local farmers in the Luwuk district to get access to justice.These are: In 1999 a group of the Tau Taa Wana tribe people in Central Sulawesi, Bulang, near Ampana wrote a letter to YMP expressing their concern over the Indonesian governments transmigration departments plans of extension.To help, YMP obtained official documents concerning planned transmigration extensions by the government, enabling the organization of the Wana.