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Sawit Watch calls for EU to face up to oil palm responsibilities

... in sustainability criteria due to increased concern about climate change impacts of palm oil. Oil palm plantations in Indonesia ... paper, as above. 5 For more information about Blue NG, see ...

Story - carolyn - 12/09/2010 - 18:19 - 0 attachments

EU-funded Leuser project slammed

... not know or care what the Leuser Development Programme is about and there is a low level of co-operation and participation in its ...

Story - Anonymous - 12/20/2011 - 15:24 - 0 attachments

Rio Tinto in Southeast Sulawesi

... months later, shareholders were still kept in the dark about some of the giant mining company's operations in Indonesia. The 1998 ...

Story - Anonymous - 12/20/2011 - 15:22 - 0 attachments

Peoples Plantations': help or hindrance in tackling deforestation?

... DTE 74 ). Further concerns have been raised about the forestry department's legal right to allocate land (since so little ... made an announcement to counter rumours that it was about to reduce the area classified as forest in Java and divide it between ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:10 - 0 attachments

Indonesia's First Indigenous Forestry Festival

... for securing indigenous forests; share knowledge about exploiting forest products - an exchange of experiences between ... to enable indigenous communities to find out directly about developments in Indonesian forest policy. Dialogue between indigenous ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:10 - 0 attachments

German company to build nickel smelter

... living near the Pomalaa site at Desa Tambea are concerned about pollution from the mine which, they say, is affecting their farming and ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:20 - 0 attachments

Adat and the forests

... by the communities themselves. While they are very clear about what they want, they are less clear about where state land-titling fits in. This is not surprising given the ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:18 - 0 attachments

Stop logging now!

... Post  27/Jan/03). NGOs remain sceptical about the new measures, saying they will be meaningless unless the timber ... by central government. Forestry ministry data shows that about 300 concessions covering over 2 million ha have been issued over the past ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:17 - 0 attachments

Indigenous activist arrested

... Ladia Galaska Road. The Alliance has warned the government about dangers of more fatal flooding and landslides in Aceh and North Sumatra. ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:15 - 0 attachments

Targeting illegal logging in West Papua

... extent of deforestation and ignoring even its own evidence about the country's dwindling forests. The Forestry Department's website says ... West Papua under large-scale logging licences. These cover about thirty times as much forest as community logging permits. Due to the vast ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:13 - 0 attachments