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PT Inco Indonesia, subsidiary of Canada-based Inco Ltd, has come under fire from indigenous communities and the local government over the company's nickel mining operations in Sulawesi.
May 14, 2000
Heavily armed police arrested eleven villagers on March 14th at Aurora Gold's Serjuan mine site in Central Kalimantan
May 14, 2000
New laws on regional autonomy and financial control were passed by the Habibie government in 1999....
May 14, 2000
Indigenous communities whose forests have been plundered by logging companies are demanding compensation for the damage.
May 14, 2000
The onset of the dry season saw the prospect of another regional 'haze' crisis as fires set by plantation companies clearing land spread out of control in the dry weather.
May 14, 2000
The situation of Kutai National Park in East Kalimantan is critical. Its head, Toni Suhartono, reckons 10 hectares of forest are cleared daily by illegal loggers....
May 14, 2000
The government has decided that the repackaged Kalimantan mega-project will not after all go ahead, due to the huge problems the original project created.
May 14, 2000