Gold mining activities in the area of Mount Botak, Buru Island in addition to damaging the environment also has led to disputes between residents of the area. Moreover, based on team which formed by Maluku provincial government and environmental studies center of Pattimura University Ambon recommend that certain areas around Mount Botak polluted due to […]
Fishermen in the Village Tambea and Hakatutobu which dominantly inhabited by Bajo tribe in District Pomalaa, Kolaka, Southeast Sulawesi is now experiencing difficulties. Mined land in the coastal of Pomalaa abandoned by nickel companies that have ceased their operations. Sedimentation of red mud derived from the mined land causing fishermen can not get any fish […]
Council Member of West Bangka Regency, Bangka Belitung Islands, asks PT Timah Tbk to seriously handle mined land reclamation program which covers tens of thousands of hectares in the area. Currently, those mined land was still open all such desert, arid, barren and abandoned. Whereas, obligation to carry out mined land reclamation is set in […]
A number of environmental activists in Aceh claimed that there’s a number of fundamental environmental issues been ignored by Aceh Government in preparing Qanun Aceh Spatial Plan, which was approved in the end of 2013 ago by Aceh Parliament (DPRA). Such as, the loss of the nomenclature of the Leuser Ecosystem Area (KEL) in the […]
The Papua provincial government should inform the public about the conditions of forests, an environmental group said. When Barnabas Suebu served as governor he dedicated 90 percent of Papua’s forests to efforts to mitigate climate change, but illegal logging has continued, said the director of Resource Management Development (RMD) Institute, Robert Mandosir, in Jayapura on […]
Dozens of farmers in the mountain slopes of Kelud, District Ngancar, protest to the National Land Agency (BPN) Kediri. The protest concerned a dispute over land with the plantation company Sumbersari Petung and government. The land of 250 hectares which falls to the public according to the court, in practice only 230 hectares were released […]
The diversity of bird species inhabiting the slope of Mount Merapi has increased after the eruption in 2010. The Forest Ecosystem Controlling Coordinator of Mount Merapi National Park (TNGM) said the last data showed there are currently 164 types of bird species living in the volcano area.
Wildlife protection group ProFauna (Protection of Forest and Fauna) Indonesia has revealed and reported the killing of a honey bear (Helarctos Malayanus) in Berau district, East Kalimantan. Read more on Tempo.[:]
The Indonesian Forum for Environment (Walhi) proposed material testing on Aceh’s Governor Regulations No.5, 2014 about the procedures and requirements of Leuser cultivation area utilization. This is because the content considered to encourage the encroachment in Leuser ecosystem area, Aceh. “This policy quibble development. In fact, it destroys the environment and not improve the community […]
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