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Valuable Peatlands Being Destroyed
By Barrie | 
No Comments » Peatland forests in Indonesia are continuously destructed by palm oil industry, although the government has stopped issuing new permits for new plantations at peatland ecosystem, a Greenpeace campaigner said. Hapsoro, Greenpeace campaigner for the Southeast Asia, said that the Greenpeace team has found a new plantation opened without permits on peatland forest in Indonesia’s Riau province at Sumatra Island.
Access to Clean Water: A Problem for Indonesia
By Barrie | No Comments » Access to clean water is one of Indonesia’s biggest problems. According to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Report 2007, published by the National Development Planning Board, piped water is accessible to 30.8 percent of households in the country’s cities and 9 percent in its villages. Such figures show the limitations of the municipality’s water service provider, PDAM.
Lack of investment in clean water is one reason PDAM gives for its limited outreach. Based on a government statement, to meet the MDGs target by 2015, Indonesia needs Rp 43 trillion (US$4.6 billion) in clean water funding. The government currently provides Rp 500 billion.
“Heart of Borneo” Meeting
By Barrie | No Comments » Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam will hold the Second Tri-lateral Meeting of Heart of Borneo in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, from April 4 to 5, 2008. The upcoming meeting was a follow up of the First HoB (Heart of Borneo) Tri-Lateral Meeting which was organized in Brunei Darussalam, on July 18-20, 2007, a press statement of the Indonesian forestry ministry said here on Thursday.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono - Fight Illegal Logging
By Barrie | No Comments » President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono asks the ambassador, general consul, and the consul, to continue eradicating illegal logging. “Keep doing it and working together as intense as possible to stop illegal logging,” said Yudhoyono at his speech with Indonesian diplomats at his office in Jakarta.
Arafuru Sea Vulnerable to Illegal Fishing
By Barrie | No Comments » Large-scale illegal fishing by passing foreign trawlers is rampant in the Arafura Sea, including waters off Merauke and Mimika regencies, despite patrols, according to authorities. The 15-day Operation Gurita, conducted by the Indonesian Marine Security coordinating board, intercepted 33 foreign trawlers, seven of which were from China operating in the Arafura Sea without any sailing and fishing documents.
‘Grave’ of Illegal Logs Found: Riau, Sumatra
By Barrie | No Comments » Police are still investigating the discovery of around 1,300 cubic meters of buried illegal logs that were recently unearthed by flooding in Kampar regency, Riau. They said the logs had been confiscated and eyewitnesses would be summoned to identify the owner of the logs, which were believed to have been buried to avoid police raids.
Global Warming Threat: Maluku Islands
By Barrie | No Comments » An increase of three degrees Celsius in the sea water temperature as a consequence of global warming will cause the sea surface to rise by seven meters and the submersion, sinking or disappearance of large swathes of coastal area on Maluku`s 1,340 islands, a marine research official said.
Bio-Coal Briquettes a Substitute
By Barrie | No Comments » Widiarti is no longer bothered by the soaring price of kerosene, nor does she have to queue for the increasingly scarce commodity after turning to organic waste-based briquettes as alternative fuel. “We housewives don’t need to line up or hunt for kerosene anymore now that we use organic waste briquettes,” said Widiarti, a mother of three.
Walhi Raising Money for Forests
By Barrie | 2 Comments » In a bid to prevent open-pit mining in protected forests, the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) is fund-raising to “rent” forests so that major mining companies cannot. The move is a response to the 2008 government regulation on non-taxable income, which allows open-pit mining in protected forests. The regulation stipulates that open-pit mining operators in protected forests only need to pay between Rp 2.25 million and Rp 3 million per hectare per year as compensation to the government.
Information on Environment Blocked
By Barrie | No Comments » The government and private firms both continue to block public access to information about environmental problems and this tends to exacerbates ecological disasters in the country, a study finds. The study found that limited public access to information on the environment made people less prepared to cope with the impacts of man-made disaster.
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