#land use

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Hotspots show weaknesses of Indonesia`s forest moratorium: Greenpeace

Greenpeace said Thursday half of the hotspots detected on June 11-18, whose smoke travelled to Singapore and Malaysia ...

Bogor hosts soil, water assessment toll conference

The Third Conference and Workshop on Soil and Water Assessment Toll for Southeast and East Asia (SWAT-SEEA) is being ...

Moratorium Extension Needed For Better Forest Governance

A tag of war between environmental groups and forest industrialists have resumed as Indonesia`s regulation on a ...

Indonesia suffers sixty floodings in a decade

Indonesia has suffered sixty times of floodings as shown by data collected over a last decade and is thus recorded as ...

Indonesia urged to extend, strengthen moratorium on deforestation

A number of non-governmental organizations have urged the Indonesian government to extend two-year moratorium on ...

Indonesia to restore polluted rivers

Indonesia is a tropical country having at least 5,590 rivers and 65,017 tributaries with a total length of the rivers ...

Indonesia to Continue The Moratorium of Primary and Peat Forest Conversion

- The Minister of Forestry, Zulkifli Hasan, once again asserted the commitment of Indonesia to ensure the ...

Bombay Sapphire® Gin Distillery Achieves World's First 'Outstanding' Design-Stage BREEAM Sustainability Accolade

-     Site named as one of world's most sustainable distilleries ahead of opening in Autumn 2013, ...

REDD+ working unit urges Indonesia govt to extend forest moratorium

The Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) National Strategy Working Unit urged the ...

NIIT Technologies Implements Cargo Ground Handling System for Cathay Pacific Services Limited

-System enhances operational efficiency, performance and productivity     NIIT Technologies Ltd. ...

Business tycoon sentenced to 32 months in jail for bribery

Business tycoon Hartati Murdaya was found guilty of committing a corruption crime on Monday and sentenced to two years ...

Deep tunnel no solution for Jakarta floods

Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo`s plan to build a deep tunnel will not serve as a solution to the floods that hit the ...

World Growth Press Release Monday December 2 2012

-NGO: Green misuse of 'prior consent' on land use will limit economic growth in developing countries ...

Hartati Murdaya accused of paying bribes

Indonesia`s top businesswoman, Hartati Murdaya, has been accused of paying bribes to the head of the Buol district, ...

Gm of PT Hardaya Inti Plantations guilty of paying bribes

Yani Anshori, the general manager of PT Hardaya Inti Plantations belonging to noted business woman Siti Hartati ...