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Two Indians share Magsaysay Award

Indian activists Aruna Roy and Jockin Arputham have won this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award along with a former Philippine town mayor, a Chinese environmentalist and a former Indonesian journalist.

Roy and Arputham won the award for community leadership and international understanding, respectively. Roy heads a peasant workers' group, while Arputham founded a slum dwellers' association.

The award for government service went to Jesse Robredo, former mayor of Naga city in the Philippines, for his effective city management while "yielding power to the people."

Liang Congjie, who founded Friends of Nature, China's first environmental group, won the prize for public service.

Atmakusumah Astraatmadja, a former journalist and now a member of the Doctor Soetomo Press Institute, was awarded the prize for journalism, literature and creative communication arts for spearheading the press freedom movement in Indonesia.

This year's awardees will receive a certificate, a medallion and a cash prize of $ 50,000 each.

The award ceremony is scheduled for August 31, the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation said in a statement.

AFP

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