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The Indonesian Timber Legality Verification Standard: words are not enough

...   Reuters 4/May/07 at  www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/41711/story.htm ...

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

Palm oil sector no longer 'the golden crop'

... of oil palm plantations so that, by 2007, they covered 7.4 million hectares. This area is expected to increase still further in line ... the payments due to the collapse in palm fruit prices. 4  Moreover, an actvist with the local NGO SETARA Jambi who has been ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:26 - 0 attachments

Sumatra rayon mill to move to China, pulp mill to reopen

... start and the mill's foreign backers injected a further $4 million.   Pulp plant to reopen In May this year, the ...

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

Military base for Wasur National Park

... to a report in the Indonesian daily,  Kompas  (4/Aug/04), members of the Kanum community have already agreed to hand over 20ha ... of the PNG border area. (Source:  Kompas  4/Aug/04,  WestPapuanews.com/news.com.au  22/Mar/05,  Jakarta ...

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

The Water-Giver

... Daru – as land which is vulnerable to desertification [4]   – must be saved from gold mining. If it isn’t, their future is ... in numerous cases of human rights abuses. [4] According to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), East ...

Story - carolyn - 05/30/2012 - 15:58 - 0 attachments

Election Politics 2014 and Natural Resources Management

... close behind the disastrous “haze” of 2013. [4] In last year’s fires in Sumatra, especially Riau, fires hotspots were ... [4]       ...

Story - carolyn - 03/27/2014 - 11:16 - 0 attachments

Gender and Development: basic concepts

Gender is a complex variable that is a part of social, cultural, economic and political contexts. Papuan ...

Story - carolyn - 10/22/2014 - 07:20 - 0 attachments

BP Tangguh's climate change commitment under scrutiny

... of West Papua province contain certified reserves of 14.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. The primary component, methane, will be ... of fuels required to run the LNG plant operations. 4 The project is expected to produce at least 7.6 million metric tonnes ...

Story - carolyn - 12/03/2010 - 20:00 - 0 attachments

Forest policy and Indonesia's natural resources crisis: a view from Jakarta

... to bring all sectoral laws in line with the decree 4 . This is still needed to assess whether the paradigm of all laws and ... and British governments - see  DTE 67 , 4 See  DTE 52 , and  DTE 57 , for more background to TAP MPR ...

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

Indonesia and biofuel fever

... has 403,467 ha of oil palm plantations which produced 4,682,975 tonnes of crude palm oil in 2005, but there are persistent shortages ... am; Antara 1/ May/07; Kompas 13/Mar/07, Jambi Ekspres 4/Jun/07; Riau Pos 7/Jun/07 An example of Fidel Castro's criticism of US ...

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