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Recent news on Indonesian forest crimes, and related developments on NGO activities, company and government actions, changes to environmental rules, lawsuits and acquittals. Also features press releases and blog posts.
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Perambahan picu karhutla Tesso Nilo --Berita dan galeri foto
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Restorasi gambut tak menentu, peraturan baru menguntungkan siapa?

14 Dec 2010 / EoF Press Release

Once-untouched haven for Tigers, Orangutans, Elephants being systematically targeted by APP/SMG

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

A forest named by international scientists as one of the top 20 priority landscapes globally for the survival of the tiger is being systematically targeted for pulp...

10 Dec 2010 / EoF News

Indonesia's Billion-Dollar Climate Experiment

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

On a humid afternoon in Sungai Tohor, a coastal village in Sumatra's Riau province, 50 or so men are packed into a town-hall conference room. They sit in neat rows of...

06 Dec 2010 / EoF News

Logging company accused of 'misleading public' with carbon conservation project

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

(Kara Moses, the Ecologist, 3rd December, 2010)-- Controversial Indonesian company Asia Pulp & Paper has come under fire from environmentalists because of 'false claims'...

05 Dec 2010 / EoF News

WWF-Indonesia publishes its position on APRIL

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

EoF News (PEKANBARU) – WWF Indonesia published its position on APRIL today. It wrote: “Until APRIL changes course and to demonstrate its responsibility and...

04 Dec 2010 / EoF News

Why is a former Greenpeace activist siding with Indonesia's logging industry?

Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

I don't often find myself praising Tesco, but – deep breath – here goes. This summer it did something brave and good. It de-listed a supplier: not on its usual...

03 Dec 2010 / EoF News

APP and APRIL undermine REDD-plus in Indonesia

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

Riau is and will be Indonesia’s epicenter for climate change from loss of natural forest and peat drainage. It had the country’s highest rate of natural...

29 Nov 2010 / EoF News

Five Sumatran elephants poisoned to death in Riau

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

Pekanbaru, Riau province (ANTARA News) - Five Sumatran Elephants (Elephas Maximus Sumatranus) were found dead last Friday (Nov 26) in Indragiri Hulu, Riau province, an...

24 Nov 2010 / EoF News

Indonesia's Billion-Dollar Forest Deal in Danger: Greenpeace

Biodiversity loss, Palm oil,

(The Jakarta Globe / Agence France-Presse, November 23, 2010) -- Greenpeace on Tuesday warned that a billion-dollar deal between Norway and Indonesia to cut carbon...

11 Nov 2010 / EoF News

Farmer shot to death at rally protesting APP's supplier

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper,

PEKANBARU (EoF News )– A farmer was shot to death by police during a bloody rally in Jambi’s river that protested Sinar Mas / Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) pulpwood...

10 Nov 2010 / EoF News

More Riau official sentenced for forestry graft case

Sumatra,

EoF News (PEKANBARU)—Former Riau Forestry Service Head was sentenced to 5-year imprisonment last week by Anti-Corruption Court for receiving bribes from pulpwood...