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Poverty and the price of rice

... on Suharto's legacy ). Bulog purchases some 10-15% of Indonesia's rice crop. The rest is sold to local traders. The agency is ... per person is about 130 kg. As there are around 15 million people living below the national poverty line 2 in urban areas ...

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

The logging of West Papua

... also lists the names of eleven rape victims, aged between 15 and 28, and states that the troops stationed around Yetti village also ... of international trade, Riyanto B. Yosokumoro, to export 15,000 cubic metres through Sorong, after the October 2001 timber export ban ...

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

After the tsunami: more disastrous debts?

... about US$47.8 billion to Paris Club creditors, with $3.15 bn in principal and $1.36 bn in interest due in 2005, according to Bank ... the target debt-to-GDp ratio for 2005 is 60% ( AFX  15/Jan/05). The high levels of poverty and debt have prompted NGOs to call ...

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

DTE’s analysis of the EC’s agrofuels policy amendments

... savings associated with biofuels and bioliquids”. [15] How can the proposal be improved? All agrofuels which ... [15] COM (2012) 595 - Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament ...

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Deadly Coal - coal exploitation and Kalimantan's blighted generation

... Pte. Ltd (Singapore) 5%; Individual investor (Indonesia) 15% 15,650 ha 0.223 (2007) 92% to Asia (Japan, South Korea China) 8% to ...

Story - carolyn - 12/01/2010 - 15:16 - 0 attachments

Palm oil is not green

... to rise to 17.6 million tonnes next year from an estimated 15.9 million tonnes in 2006. (See  DTE 69  and  DTE 66 ... (Source:  www.cdmwatch.org ,  Guardian  15/Nov/06)   *Biofuels are sometimes described as 'carbon ...

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

New investment law is not pro-poor

... FDI projects, as opposed to actual inflows, increased by 15% to $15.6 billion in 2006. Britain remains one of Indonesia's biggest investors, ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:32 - 0 attachments

Timber plantations: backing a loser

Rather than rethink the whole approach to forest management, the government appears to be determined to continue with attempts to "reforest" degraded areas by continuing with the much-criticised progr ...

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

Rio Tinto: practise what you preach!

... women between the ages of nine and eighteen; the arrest of 15 demonstrators in 1992 and the subsequent death of one of them; forced ... copper and gold mine in West Papua (Rio Tinto has a 15% share); the Kaltim Prima Coal mine (co-owned with BP); Papua New Guinea's ...

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

New mine will mean more marine pollution in Sulawesi

... Reserve, which provides protection for 13 mammal species, 15 bird and 17 reptile species in this unique wildlife region. Just off the tip ... Tempo Interaktif  23/Dec/05; JATAM updates 15/Dec/05 & 12/Jan/06)   ...

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