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Environment minister asks local govts to make biodiversity data

Environmental Affairs Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta has asked the local administrations in Indonesia to collect data ...

RI`s forest cutting moratorium begins gaining int`l acclaim

The recently introduced moratorium on forest conversions has begun winning international acclaim with Norway ...

Norway hails RI`s moratorium on forest clearing

Norway`s Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim has hailed the signing of a ...

Govt to review 8,000 mining licenses

The government is planning to review 8,000 mining licenses it has issued following reports that many of the licenses ...

Moratorium "important political shift" but not enough

Greenpeace Southeast Asia has hailed the recently signed Presidential Instruction on Deforestation Moratorium as "an ...

Billions of trees to be planted across Indonesia

Realizing that tree-planting can make a valuable contribution to the fight against global warming, the Forestry ...

Taman Safari Indonesia holds intl photo competition

Taman Safari Indonesia, the Conservation organization (outside the habitat) in Cisarua, Bogor district will hold the ...

Indonesian Youth launches plant one billion trees campaign

Indonesian National Youth Committee (KNPI) chairman Aziz Syamsuddin launched a Youth Movement to Plant One Billion ...

Long-awaited decree on deforestation moratorium draws mixed responses from NGOs

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono finally signed the long-awaited Presidential Instruction on deforestation ...

ADB to help improve resources management in coral triangle

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved assistance of around $12 million for the Coastal and Marine Resources ...

C Kalimantan to host world governors meeting on environment

Some 30 governors from various countries will gather in Central Kalimantan province in September 2011 to attend a ...

Sinar Mas extends Tengkawang planting area in W Kalimantan

Oil palm plantation company Sinar Mas Group has extended its Tengkawang Tungkul (Shorea Macrophylla) planting area in ...

President Yudhoyono supports sustainable palm oil business

Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) strongly supported sustainable palm oil ...

RI capable of building nuclear power plant

Indonesia has the capability of building a nuclear power plant itself, an official of the Indonesian Atomic Energy ...

Paramitra conserves eight tropical pitcher plants in W Kalimantan

PT Paramitra Internusa Pratama, a subsidiary of the oil palm plantation Sinar Mas Group, has been conserving at least ...