On October 17th, 2011 Anita Rachman of the Jakarta Globe published an article with the headline “Occupy Jakarta? We Might if We Knew We Were Being Invited.” In the article, Rachman suggests that the lack of events organized by a Facebook group called “Occupy Jakarta” demonstrates there is no “real” Occupy movement in Jakarta. Writing about #OccupyWallStreet (OWS) one week later, David Harvey referred to the occupation of Tahrir Square in Egypt as proof that “it is bodies on the street and in the squares not the babble of sentiments on Twitter or Facebook that really matter.” What “really matters” for Rachman and Harvey is which space the occupiers occupy. For them physical space matters, cyberspace does not. But what “matters” to participants in the Occupy movement? And what constitutes an occupation for them?

2,000 families are estimated to live at Bantar Gebang, Indonesia’s largest trash dump. In this photo, women who live in this community are praying at the end of Ramadan.

Photograph: Javaz Tizmaghz, the Guardian

In an interesting example of a court ruling against the statute of limitations argument for a colonial era compensation case, The Hague civil court has ruled that the Dutch government should compensate the widows of villagers who were killed in the 1947 Rawagede massacre.

via the Guardian