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Green entrepreneurs tackle Indonesia's growing trash mountains
2016-03-17 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Some residents of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, frustrated by the mounting trash problem across the sprawling metropolis, have started taking matters into their own hands. Hamidi, a young "green entrepreneur" became so concerned by the overflowing Jakarta city dump that he began turning discarded plastic into fuel. "At the very beginning I just wanted to start a business," said Hamidi, who started his waste-to-energy initiative a year ago in Tangerang, a satellite city about 25 km (15 miles)...
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Can Indonesia's forest fires be put out for good?
2016-03-14 23:26:51| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Extinguishing Indonesia's forest fires
Indonesia's Pertamina and Marubeni sign gas turbine deal with GE
2016-03-13 14:56:21| Grocery - Topix.net
A consortium made up of Indonesia's state energy firm PT Pertamina and Japan's Marubeni Corp has signed a deal with General Electric The consortium intends to bid to build and operate the 1,600-megawatt plant, which would be the biggest gas and steam power station in Indonesia, in a tender held by state utility firm PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara in May, Pertamina said in a statement on Sunday. The consortium has also asked South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp to provide engineering, procurement and construction for the power plant, Pertamina said.
$1m for devising best way to map Indonesias peatlands
2016-03-05 13:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Want to make a million dollars? Find the most efficient way to map Indonesias peatlands. Thats the ticket to winning the Indonesian Peat Prize, announced by the cartographically challenged Southeast Asian country last month. The competition will establish a national standard for mapping peatland extent and thickness, a process deemed essential to stopping the annual forest and peat fires which grow more devastating by the year. Last dry season, they burned an area the size of Rwanda, afflicted...
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Indonesia's growth slows for fifth year
2016-02-05 04:23:30| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Growth in South East Asia's largest economy, Indonesia, has come in at 4.76% for 2015 - the fifth consecutive yearly decline.
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