Days of heavy smog shrouding Indonesian Borneo pushed its air pollution to 20 times beyond the safe level last week despite government promises to tackle forest fires. Visibility dropped dramatically as measures of dust particles known as PM10 reached almost 3,000 micrograms per cubic metre in the Central Borneo provincial capital of Palangka Raya. According […]
Tondano, Ekuatorial – Massive gemstone mining in Minahasa had taken its toll potentially damaging forest areas in Tincep village, Sonder district, Minahasa, Tincep head village, Rommy Dapu, said that villagers kept on hunting for gemstone and were difficult to be stopped. Up to Monday (6/7), local villagers have managed to dig at least to 20 […]
Sorong, Ekuatorial – Due to massive oil palm plantation expansion, water scarcity hit Malalilis village of Klaili, Sorong district, said an activist, in Sorong, on Tuesday (5/5). “People are getting hard to find clean water as their village is located inside oil palm plantation. Forest cleared for oil palm. There’s no water in the village. […]
Pekanbaru, Ekuatorial – A Riau based forest watchdog found indicators for exempting illegal industrial plantation permits and plantation permits through revising the province’s spatial planning, said Widya Astuti of Hutanriau Foundation, in Pekanbaru, on Tuesday (14/4). Based on Hutanriau Foundation research in Siak and Pelalawan districts, it is allegedly found violation on ministry of environment […]
Solo, Ekuatorial – Recent high demand on gemstones is threatening environment in Wonogori forest of Central Java, due to traditional way of mining, said a local official on Thursday (2/4). At least three sub districts, — Kismantoro, Jatiroto, and Tirtomoyo –, are being targeted by local miners for Fire Opal stone which is claimed as […]
Aceh Tamiang, Ekuatorial – A coalition of green groups demanded for Aceh Tamiang government banned all permits issuance related to forest exploitation, in Aceh Tamiang, on Thursday (25/3). The Coalition to Save Forest and Environment just released a policy brief calling for moratorium on forest permit issuance for mining and plantation in Aceh Tamiang district. […]
Burmeso, Jubi – Papua Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BBKSDA) is having difficulties in managing and monitoring its vast conservation areas, as stated by head of technical division of Papua BBKSDA, Christian Mambor, in Burmeso, capital city of Mamberamo Raya, on Saturday (8/11). “Papua’s forest areas cover at least 31.5 million hectares or 24 percent of […]
The Government of North Buton District prepared 10 thousand hectares of land for sugarcane plantations in the District of West Kulisusu, Bonegunu and partly Kulisusu. The land comes from the community garden, otheh area usage (APL) and convertible production forest (HPL). “The entire site has been prepared and met the requirements, even when the community […]
Director of WALHI in Aceh, Muhammad Nur firmly said that WALHI will sue the Aceh Governor Zaini Abdullah because they don’t run the law No. 18 year 2013 about the Prevention and Eradication of Forest Destruction. “The illegal miners freely use protected areas, other cases of road infrastructure development in the protected forest areas has […]
Jakarta, Ekuatorial – South Barito of Central Kalimantan has been appointed as the first pilot project for forest recognition project by third party aimed to manage the province’s overlapping permit issuance, said a member of government’s office, in Jakarta, last month. The Third Party Recognition and Verification Program, locally shorten as PPH, is conducted by […]
