1. Palm oil company guards injure four villagers in Kalimantan clash
Four villagers were injured and several vehicles destroyed in a clash between local residents and palm oil company guards in Indonesian Borneo last week. The clash is the latest incident in a long-running conflict between Wilmar subsidiary PT Bumi Sawit Kencana and villagers in Kotawaringin Timur district, Central Kalimantan.
2. The Javan Rhino’s final stronghold
An article on the current state of a native Indonesia mammal in danger of extinction.
3. Through a new online fund-raising campaign on behalf of the Sumatran Orangutan Society featuring an animated orangutan called Armstrong, comedian Bill Bailey is asking animal lovers to help create new homes for the Sumatran orangutan by backing a rainforest restoration project that has just planted its 1,000,000th tree.
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4. Cute pictures of orphaned orangutans.
330 orphaned apes are cared for at the Orangutan Care Centre and Quarantine in Borneo, Indonesia. Human surrogate mothers look after the
orphaned and rescued orangutans
Haze
An excavator creates a canal in Riau Province, Indonesia, amid smoke caused by forest fires. © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace
Many of the paintings of the late 1880's, allegedly including Edvard Munch's iconic The Scream (full title 'The Scream (or Shriek) of Nature'), were influenced by the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. The paintings of J.M.W. Turner are rightly celebrated for their depictions of the many moods of Mother Nature. This painting is said to have been influenced by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815.
Chichester CanalVolcanic eruptions blast gases and particles of debris into the atmosphere and cause global climate anomalies, the weather patterns on which farmers depend, including the light. That's Mother Nature at work.
The photo above is of Man's reckless imitation through forest clearance by fire in Sumatra. Prevailing winds send haze to the neighbouring countries of Malaysia and Singapore.
And this past week, forest fires have peaked again, a month after the governments of our neighbours expressed outrage.
Gleanings Anew
Links to Indonesian Green news, often from international media, are published on this Facebook page, usually on a weekly basis.
They will be posted here as part of the Gleanings series.
- Apple to establish if tin from Bangka Island is used in iPhones as Friends of the Earth steps up pressure to 'come clean' over use of child labour in Indonesia
- This is sad and as is this. Did the first lead to the second?
- Greenpeace and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body that sets criteria for greener palm oil production, are caught up in a row over the origin of fires that cast a pall over Sumatra, Singapore, and Malaysia last month.
- Terusan village in West-Kalimantan (Indonesia) on the island of Borneo is completely surrounded by oil palm. The villagers grow rice and rubber on their ancestral lands. Recently, an oil palm company made Terusan an offer to convert their village land to an oil palm plantation. The people of Terusan have to make a choice about their future. They decided to map their ancestral lands as they attempt to take control of their future. Watch this video.
- Surprise, Surprise!
Corruption and mismanagement in Indonesia’s forest sector have cost the government billions of dollars in losses in recent years, including over $7 billion in losses from 2007-2011, Human Rights Watch said in a report released this week.
- Apple to establish if tin from Bangka Island is used in iPhones as Friends of the Earth steps up pressure to 'come clean' over use of child labour in Indonesia
- This is sad and as is this. Did the first lead to the second?
- Greenpeace and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body that sets criteria for greener palm oil production, are caught up in a row over the origin of fires that cast a pall over Sumatra, Singapore, and Malaysia last month.
- Terusan village in West-Kalimantan (Indonesia) on the island of Borneo is completely surrounded by oil palm. The villagers grow rice and rubber on their ancestral lands. Recently, an oil palm company made Terusan an offer to convert their village land to an oil palm plantation. The people of Terusan have to make a choice about their future. They decided to map their ancestral lands as they attempt to take control of their future. Watch this video.
- Surprise, Surprise!
Corruption and mismanagement in Indonesia’s forest sector have cost the government billions of dollars in losses in recent years, including over $7 billion in losses from 2007-2011, Human Rights Watch said in a report released this week.
Govt wants to develop nuclear energy sources
Technology Minister Gusti Muhammad said on Tuesday that Indonesia needed to develop nuclear technology because fossil-based energy sources were depleting.
“If we are facing a fossil-based energy crisis, then we should try to develop nuclear technology.”
Gusti said that this plan needed to be followed up as soon as possible because developing nuclear-based technology would require a lot of investment and time.
“If we start developing now, then we can reap the results in 10 years,” he said.
Source: The Jakarta Post July 16 2013
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Given that the previous tenants in Jakartass Towers Redux laid some water outlet pipes which flowed inwards, one can expect that one result of a leak in an Indonesian power plant is that it would be botch repaired with plastic bags, masking tape and broom sticks, as happened at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in December last year.
“If we are facing a fossil-based energy crisis, then we should try to develop nuclear technology.”
Gusti said that this plan needed to be followed up as soon as possible because developing nuclear-based technology would require a lot of investment and time.
“If we start developing now, then we can reap the results in 10 years,” he said.
Source: The Jakarta Post July 16 2013
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Given that the previous tenants in Jakartass Towers Redux laid some water outlet pipes which flowed inwards, one can expect that one result of a leak in an Indonesian power plant is that it would be botch repaired with plastic bags, masking tape and broom sticks, as happened at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in December last year.
© Scripps Media, Inc. 2013
Are Acehnese Anti-Animals?
Sharia law in Aceh is not only misogynous but also couldn't give a damn about other animals.
View a gallery of other caged endangered species here.
There's a petition to sign here.
Meanwhile, uncaged animals bite back ....
Tiger, tiger burning bright.
Give mankind a bloody fright ...
Elsewhere, in a zoo "in East Java", some cute komodo dragons have been born.
Watch this video and cringe at the commentary!
An orangutan reaches out of its cage at a market on the outskirts of Kandang, south Aceh
View a gallery of other caged endangered species here.
There's a petition to sign here.
Meanwhile, uncaged animals bite back ....
Tiger, tiger burning bright.
Give mankind a bloody fright ...
Elsewhere, in a zoo "in East Java", some cute komodo dragons have been born.
Watch this video and cringe at the commentary!
Rivers of Filth
Manggarai sluice gates on the river Ciliwung river in south Jakarta. Indonesia Deforesters Hide Their Money Offshore
The Offshore Leaks Database of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICCJ) contains ownership information about companies created in 10 offshore jurisdictions including the British Virgin Islands, the Cook Islands and Singapore. It covers nearly 30 years until 2010.
As to be expected, billionaires are among thousands of Indonesians found in the secret documents now being made public.
Four ... of Indonesia’s very richest are known for their role in clearing vast areas of tropical rainforest. Eka Tjipta Widjaja, the Salim family, Sukanto Tanoto and Prajogo Pangestu built their fortunes after they obtained licenses to log and clear rainforest during the Suharto years. More recently Widjaja, Tanoto and Pangestu have invested heavily in palm oil plantations.
A series of reports earlier this year from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting described palm oil as one of the most controversial commodities on earth. Palm oil plantations have replaced “swathes of rainforest the size of small countries”.
Between them they have over 140 offshore companies, mostly in the British Virgin Islands.
As to be expected, billionaires are among thousands of Indonesians found in the secret documents now being made public.
Four ... of Indonesia’s very richest are known for their role in clearing vast areas of tropical rainforest. Eka Tjipta Widjaja, the Salim family, Sukanto Tanoto and Prajogo Pangestu built their fortunes after they obtained licenses to log and clear rainforest during the Suharto years. More recently Widjaja, Tanoto and Pangestu have invested heavily in palm oil plantations.
A series of reports earlier this year from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting described palm oil as one of the most controversial commodities on earth. Palm oil plantations have replaced “swathes of rainforest the size of small countries”.
Between them they have over 140 offshore companies, mostly in the British Virgin Islands.
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