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How much land?

... 247,081 hectares (ha) of planted area of which about 74% is located in Indonesia (Sumatra, West Kalimantan and Central ...

Story - carolyn - 01/07/2013 - 13:39 - 0 attachments

Fix the policy!

... future of biofuels policy. Please read on to find out more about the biofuels campaign and how you can help. ...

Story - carolyn - 12/04/2013 - 11:08 - 0 attachments

Twenty years of DTE

... to the climate change debate as they were to debates about sustainable development then. Forest destruction and land use change ... destruction in future raises many of the same questions about forestry policy, indigenous rights, community-based forest management and ...

Story - carolyn - 12/05/2010 - 16:34 - 0 attachments

Political parties disregard rights, environment and sustainable development

... those using this tactic. There has been major concern about increasing number of cases of dengue fever - and deaths from it - in the ...

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

Plans for action 1999-2002

... younger generation. Traditional knowledge (for example, about cultivation and medicinal plants) is not part of the formal educational ...

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

New investment law is not pro-poor

... and participation:  there was no real public debate about the contents of the bill and no public consultation during the drafting ... Demonstrations The level of concern in Indonesia about the potential impacts of the law led to several protests in the weeks ...

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

CSR à la Jakarta

... ie the engine behind most business - raises more questions about how coherent the thinking was behind the inclusion of CSR. Some ...

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

Aceh: ecological war zone

... at the time, 10 logging concession holders were logging about 600,000 hectares of forest in the two districts of South and West Aceh alone, where about 60% of forest resources had already been exploited.  (see  ...

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

Sand mining destroys community resources

... Ban sand mining! Indonesian NGOs concerned about the impact on coastal fishing communities are campaigning to stop sand ...

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

Land claims in Lore Lindu result in deaths

... by Papa Gola.   Complex land issues About 60,000 people live in and around the 229,00 ha national park which was ... WALHI. Tempers are running high with both sides talking about the 'arrogance' and 'excessive violence' of the other through the press ...

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