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Tin Mining Activity Threatening Bangka Island`s Tourism

The landscapes in many parts of Bangka island can now be best described as barren wastelands due to unbridled tin ...

RI`s processed cocoa exports increasing

Indonesia`s overall cocoa exports are predicted to drop by about 12.5 percent this year, but its processed cocoa ...

PT Jaya Agra lists shares at BEI

PT Jaya Agra Wattie Tbk. (JAWA) officially listed its shares at the Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI) here on Monday at ...

Walhi calls on president to evaluate oil palm plantation development

The West Kalimantan chapter of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (WALHI) has called on President Susilo Bambang ...

ASEAN summit opens RI pandora`s box of infrastructure projects

The 18th ASEAN Summit four weeks ago in Jakarta has unexpectedly opened the pandora`s box of Indonesia`s ...

Chinese company to invest in plantations

A Chinese company, PT Guandong Agribusiness, will invest in plantations in transmigration areas in Indonesia to create ...

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

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

Palm oil price still high in 2011 although fluctuating

Although it still continues fluctuating the average price of palm oil this year will remain higher than last year ...

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

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

Four kinds of exceptions to apply in forest clearing moratorium

The government is to make four kinds of exceptions in the implementation of Presidential Instruction No. 10/2011 on ...

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 ...

WWF asks Riau to stop conflict between humans and elephabnts

The Riau World Wide Fund for Nature is trying to put an end to the conflict between humans and elephants (elephas ...

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 ...

Elephant habitat in Bengkulu shrinking

The habitat of wild elephants in Bengkulu province is shrinking because encroachments into limited production forests ...

BKSDA proposes widening of wildlife corridor in Seblat

Bengkulu`s Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) has asked the Forestry Ministry for permission to widen the ...