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Palm Oil Firms Vow to Stop using Forests

May 16th, 2008 | Username By Barrie | Comments No Comments »

Palm oil companies operating in Indonesia pledged to stop expanding plantations into forests in response to growing global criticism about deforestation and to promote more sustainable products. Executive director of... [Read this entry]


Orangutans May be Extinct in 3 Years

May 13th, 2008 | Username By Barrie | Comments No Comments »

Conservationists say protected wild orangutans in Central Kalimantan may be extinct in three years unless the government acts to stop the expansion of oil palm plantations. Center for Orangutan Protection... [Read this entry]




Valuable Peatlands Being Destroyed

April 7th, 2008 | Username By Barrie | Comments 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... [Read this entry]


Illegal Plantations to be Destroyed: Riau, Sumatra

February 8th, 2008 | Username By Barrie | Comments No Comments »

The government will slash some 49,000 hectares of illegal palm oil plantations in protected forest areas in Rokan Hulu regency, Riau, allowing forests to reclaim cleared land, an official said... [Read this entry]


Fight Against Deforestation: Papua

October 26th, 2007 | Username By Barrie | Comments No Comments »

The central government, investors in palm oil plantations and timber companies need to know that deforestation is and will be rejected by indigenous Papuans from 252 different tribes living in... [Read this entry]


Peatland to Palm Oil Not a Good Idea

October 11th, 2007 | Username By Barrie | Comments No Comments »

Indonesia needs to focus on reigning in the destruction of peatland along with illegal logging if it wants to tackle climate change, says Greenpeace International. Indonesia has approximately 60 percent... [Read this entry]


Global Warming and the Papuan Rainforests

October 7th, 2007 | Username By Barrie | Comments No Comments »

Papua is the size of California and is almost entirely covered by vast stretches of virgin rain forest spread over 41.5 million hectares — or 23 percent of Indonesia’s total... [Read this entry]


Palm Oil Plantation Profits: Langkat, Sumatra

August 20th, 2007 | Username By Barrie | Comments No Comments »

Palm oil prices might be going through the roof and making investors and businessmen rich, but the soaring prices have not improved the lot of pickers and locals working... [Read this entry]


Indonesian Palm Oil Plan

July 15th, 2007 | Username By Barrie | Comments No Comments »

A coalition of environmental groups in Indonesia has called on the United Nations to intervene in a palm oil project being planned in Borneo. The project will allocate up to... [Read this entry]


Plantation Target Set by Government: Indonesia

February 10th, 2007 | Username By Barrie | Comments No Comments »

The government has set a target in plantation by means of revitalizing two million hectares of land in 20 provinces of Indonesia for this sector as a way to increase... [Read this entry]


About the Author
Barrie Lie-BirchallBarrie Lie-Birchall has traveled throughout the archipelago of Indonesia for nearly three decades and has written and published numerous travel articles in magazines and newspapers globally. A freelance writer, Barrie graduate from West Coast College in Perth with Honours in Languages, and continued studying Anthropology and Cultural Studies at Edith Cowan University. Barrie has lived in various places in Indonesia immersing himself into the culture and way of life. His greatest passions are his love of life, his love of writing, and of course, Indonesia.
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