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RI`s peat forests can play important role in climate change

Peat swamp forests in Indonesia consist for 50 percent of tropical peat swamps and 10 percent of dry land, an ...

News Focus : RI`s failure to host global environment day regretted

Indonesia`s failure to be named host of World Environment Day (WED) 2011 is regrettable because the nation has lost a ...

Garbage festival to mark trash problem in Yogyakarta

Several groups of people who cared for the environment are to hold a garbage festival called Grebeg Sampah 2011 on ...

Bengkulu facing grave coastal land abrasion problem

Bengkulu province is facing a grave coastal land abrasion problem as only 8.59 percent of its total area is now still ...

Walhi: Environmental damage to increase 50-70 pct in 2011

The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) predicts that environmental damage in Indonesia in 2011 will increase ...

S Sumatra govt urged to overcome environmental damage

The South Sumatra branch of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (WALHI) has urged the local government to ...

NGOs consider govt not serious in handling violence against minorities

The government is not serious in realizing its commitment to solve violence against certain religious or minority ...

Oil palm, mining wastes biggest polluters in 2010

Wastes from oil palm plantations and mining operations were the greatest polluters of the environmet in 2010, the ...

Five of Indonesia`s great lakes polluted in 2010, Walhi

Five big lakes in Indonesia were in 2010 polluted by pollutants from mining activity and oil palm plantations, an ...