Topic: Indonesia
Norway agreed Thursday to advance 30 million dollars to Indonesia in the first installment of a planned billion-dollar scheme to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation. After two days of talks in Jakarta, Norwegian officials said they were satisfied that ...
Indonesia is allowing powerful businessmen to get rich from smuggling rare timber to China despite its pledges to crack down on illegal logging and preserve its forests, environmentalists said Thursday. An undercover probe by the independent Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and local ...
Indonesia is allowing powerful businessmen to get rich from smuggling rare timber to China despite its pledges to crack down on illegal logging and preserve its forests, environmentalists said Thursday. An undercover investigation by the independent Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and local ...
Greenpeace made fresh allegations Thursday that units of Indonesian paper and palm oil giant Sinar Mas are clearing high conservation-value forests including habitats of endangered orangutans. Greenpeace Indonesia forest campaigner Bustar Maitar said new investigations showed Sinar Mas subsidiaries logging peat forests ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The United States will spend $136 million over three years on environment and climate change programs in Indonesia, according to a statement issued by the White House on Monday. The agreement between two of the world's biggest emitters of ...
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - When Indonesia last week secured its largest climate change funding of $1 billion from Norway, the Southeast Asian nation spelt out plans to revoke existing forestry licenses held by palm oil and timber firms. Planters protested the proposals ...
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia won't revoke existing forestry licenses for palm oil firms as part of a deal with Norway to preserve rain forests, a government minister and industry official said on Wednesday. Chief Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa told reporters that ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will revoke existing forestry licenses held by palm oil and timber firms to save natural forests under a $1 billion climate change deal signed with Norway last week, a government official said on Monday. Indonesia's president, Susilo Bambang ...
Rich countries pledge $4B to stop deforestation in developing worldDeveloped nations pledged more than $4 billion Thursday to finance a program meant to help poor countries protect their forests and slow global warming. An agency monitoring the aid will be up and ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has launched a review of laws governing a U.N.-backed carbon trading scheme aimed preserving rainforests, a forestry ministry official said on Friday. Indonesia in 2008 became the world's first country to design a legal framework for reducing emissions ...
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Indonesia Volcano Erupts
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Mount Sinabung spews volcanic materials into the sky in Karo, North Sumatra ...AP News - -
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Volcano Eruption: Indonesia village residents igno...
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Scientists Pledge to Watch Indonesia Volcano
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Anthony Bourdain in Indonesia, Largest Muslim Nation in the world!2007-09-03
