The intensity of sand excavations at Lampu Satu Beach and surrounding areas has resulted sea abrasion, but when many houses of local community were affected by seawater, some people blamed it on Mbuti people. [Continue reading on Tabloid Jubi]
Conversions into agriculture and plantations are the biggest threats to wetlands in Indonesia. More than 9 million hectares have been turned into oil palm plantations.
Company of Surya Panen Subur (SPS) expressed their readiness to face a lawsuit filed by the Ministry of Environment and the Presidential Work Unit for Monitoring and Control of Development alleged land combustion and fire omission. The trial will be held in the District Court of Meulaboh early March this year. SPS counsel explained that […]
Gunung Kidul Regional Government eyes for investments in tourism area while awaiting geopark status confirmation from UNESCO. “We have begun to discuss the investment discourse, maintaining its geopark directives,” said the Chief of Gunung Kidul Regional Development Planning Agency Syarif Armunanto. [Continue reading on Tempo]
Giant clams cultivation in Toli-Toli village, Soropia, Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi initiates by locals independently. They who are members of the group of Toli-toli Giant Clams Ocean Park Conservation Center since the last two years has been cultivated around 8000 of giant clams in various types and sizes. The loss of giant clams in the waters […]
Head of The Center of Limnology Research Center for Indonesia’s Science Institution (LIPI) Gadis Sri Haryani, said that there is a new land mass discovered just 2 kilometers off the coast of Sederhana Beach, Bekasi, due to sedimentation. She said that it was a natural process that was caused by a river’s current after the flood […]
Bekasi Fishermen found a land emerged from the sea forming a new island with two-kilometer length and 15-meter width. The merged-land is located two kilometers from Sederhana beach, Bekasi, and becomes crowdedly visited by people. A community leader, Runci, explained that the phenomenon occurred for the first time in Bekasi northern coast. He speculated that the […]
Skeletons of seven elephants have been found in the area of Tesso Nilo National Park (TNTN) in Pelalawan, Riau. The elephants, predicted to have died three months ago, consist of one female, one male and five cubs. The dead elephants were found in the PT RAPP concession area, Baserah sector, Ukui district. The male elephant lost […]
Charles Tawaru, Greenpeace campaigner for Papua forests said in the last two years many new concessions, particularly industrial plantation forests (HTI) and palm oil plantations, had been issued. Such plantations encroaches natural forest areas. [Continue reading on Tabloid Jubi]
Senator Rachel Siewert of Parliement House Canberra pledged to fight for compensation for fishermen in West Timor, East Nusa Tenggara as victims of the oil spill caused by the Montara oil refinery explosion on August 21, 2009. “I came here to get some input related to the disaster suffered by people due to the Montara […]
