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The decision of a North Sulawesi court to find the US-based mining company, Newmont, not guilty of polluting the environment is a huge disappointment for NGOs and communities who have been struggling for years to hold this multinational gold mining company to account.
May 14, 2007
Civil society organisations concerned with the impacts of the pulp and paper industry and its fastwood plantations on people and forests have been discussing the basic demands to be made of industry and governments.
May 14, 2007
After a long and tortuous process, the working group given the task of agreeing the final version of Legality Standard for Indonesian Timber has completed its work.What its impact will be on the ground, where Indonesia's forests are disappearing fast, remains to be seen.
May 14, 2007
The following report is based on an interview with Mat Cutik, Co-ordinator of Gerakan Perjuangan Atas Tanah Adat, an organisation set up to defend villagers' land from oil palm development.
May 14, 2007
The giant copper and gold mine operated in West Papua by US-based mining company Freeport McMoran with substantial investment from the British multinational Rio Tinto has been under scrutiny once again.
May 14, 2007
It has been two years since Down to Earth's last detailed report on BP's huge Tangguh gas project in Bintuni Bay, West Papua. Surprisingly little has changed.
May 14, 2007
The Indonesian parliament passed a new investment law in March, despite strong civil society opposition and despite much concern over its implications.
May 14, 2007
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