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Insight - Behind Indonesia mining deal, newly minted minister and U.S. mining legend
2014-08-24 07:47:09| Real Estate - Topix.net
As negotiations to resolve an increasingly bitter dispute over Indonesian mining rules teetered on the brink of collapse, the chairman of Freeport-McMoRan Inc Indonesia's chief economics minister, Chairul Tanjung, said he had got to a point where he felt only talking directly to the 76-year-old U.S. mining legend might break a deadlock in the ... (more)
Indonesia forests so damaged they burn whether or not there's drought
2014-08-21 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Air pollution caused by fires set for land-clearing on Sumatra has become a regularly occurrence in Southeast Asia, spurring hand-wringing in Singapore and Malaysia over health effects and worries among environmentalists over the climate impacts. While these fires are often termed "forest fires", the reality is much of the area that burns each year has already been deforested and today mostly consists of grass, scrub, and remnants of what was once forest. But the impacts are nonetheless very substantial,...
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Amcor to construct tobacco packaging plant in Indonesia
2014-08-19 10:48:00| Packaging Gateway
Amcor Tobacco Packaging is planning to construct a greenfield tobacco packaging plant in East Java, Indonesia, which is expected to become fully operational by the end of 2015.
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Indonesia cracks down on illegal burning, investigates more suspect companies
2014-08-14 20:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Every year, thousands of hectares of Indonesian forest are illegally burned by development companies. However, Indonesias Minister of Environment, Balthasar Kambuaya, is optimistic that legal charges over such fires can be completed even though he has just three months left in office. I hope [the environment ministry] can complete the tasks [to get the cases to trial]. Although, it also depends on the prosecutors [to try the cases]. We will coordinate with the prosecutors to push the cases...
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Indonesia: Half of Riau's oil palm plantations are illegal
2014-08-12 03:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Half of the oil palm plantations in Sumatra's Riau Province are illegal, said Indonesia's top forestry official. Speaking to Antara News, Minister of Forestry Zulkifli Hasan said that two million of Riau's four million hectares of Riau's oil palm plantations lack permits. "Only two million of the total four million hectares of oil palm plantation area have official permit for forest conversion," Zulkifli was quoted as saying. Four million hectares represents half the area set aside for plantations...
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