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Police grill 25 witnesses in orangutan killing case

The National Police have grilled 25 witnesses in the orangutan (pongo pygmaeus morio) and monkey killing case at Puan ...

RI enjoys US$2.8 billion foreign trade surplus in September

Indonesia enjoyed a surplus in both its non-oil/non-gas and oil/gas trading activities with other countries in ...

Elephants run amok in jambi oil palm, rubber plantations

Tens of elephants have been running amok in oil palm and rubber plantations in Koto VII Sub-district, in Tebo ...

Papua`s forests facing serious threat: Greenpeace

A Greenpeace campaigner for Papua, Ricarth Tawaru, said with forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan having almost ...

Nestle to invest $200 mln in Indonesia

Nutrition, health and wellness company Nestle SA plans to build a cocoa processing plant in Indonesia at a cost of ...

news focus: rainforest conservation, law enforcement crucial for orangutan`s survival

Indonesia is home to the world`s remaining population of critically endangered orangutans found on Sumatra and ...

Anti-oil palm industry campaigns must be countered

Industry Minister MS Hidayat said black campaigns against the oil palm industry must be countered because in reality ...

Trade war eroding oil palm industry`s prospects : Sinar Mas

The existence of a trade war is slowly eroding the developmental prospects of the oil palm industry in Indonesia, the ...

Govt determined to fight forest fires as hot spots proliferate

The Indonesian government appears to be determined to reduce the number of forest fire hot spots by 20 percent ...

Batam protected forest gutted by fire

A fire has gutted around 20 hectares of protected forest in Bukit Tiban, Batuaji, Batam, Riau Islands Province. ...

Fire razes tens of hectares of Pagaralam forest area

A fire razed tens of hectares of forest area at Atungbungsu, Dempo Selatan sub district, Pagaralam, South Sumatra. ...

Stop orangutan skull trade

The Center of Orangutan Protection, a Non-Governmental-Organization, urged the society and the government to be ...

Malaysia will repatriate 10,000 jambi migrant workers

The Malaysian government will repatriate some 10,000 Indonesian migrant workers (TKIs) most of whom had been employed ...

London Sumatra`s profit surges 112 pct

Oil palm plantation company PT PP London Sumatra Indonesia Tbk (LSIP) posted a net profit of Rp886.3 billion in the ...

Migratory birds arrive in Riau forests

Hundreds of migratory raptors and Tringa brevipe birds have arrived in forest areas along the coast of Rupat Isle, ...