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• All eyes on Gore as high noon looms for UN climate talks

  - 2007-12-13

  NUSA DUA, Indonesia AFP — Marathon attempts to craft a new strategy to tackle the peril of climate change were in deep trouble Thursday, with UN organisers warning there was less than a day to agree a deal. As exhausted negotiators wrangled behind closed doors, green activists on the...

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• Follow the money trail in illegal logging crimes: Indonesian activists

  - 2007-11-15

  JAKARTA AFP — Indonesian activists are urging authorities here to hunt down illegal loggers using anti money-laundering laws, following the shock acquittal of a high-profile suspect who has gone on the run. Indonesia's abysmal record on fighting illegal logging -- no timber baron has ever received a substantial jail...

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• Indonesia faces further disasters if forests not replanted: activists

  - 2006-12-27

  JAKARTA AFP — Disasters such as the flash floods which have killed 100 people and displaced more than 400,000 will be repeated unless Indonesia takes swift action to restore forests lost to logging, activists and analysts have said. Conservationists and scientists say deforestation reduces the capacity of the ecosystem to...

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• Indonesia's police to seek US help over activist's death

  - 2006-11-22

  JAKARTA AFP — Indonesia's police said they will seek assistance from the United States to speed up their probe into murder of respected Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib. National police chief General Sutanto said he was committed to solving Munir's death. "We are going seek technical assistance from...

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• Son of Indonesian dictator freed from jail

  - 2006-10-30

  JAKARTA AFP — The youngest son of Indonesia's ex-president Suharto has been freed from prison after serving just a third of an original 15-year sentence over the murder of a judge, raising the ire of activists. Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, 44, walked free after registering for a one-year period of...

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• Tommy Suharto to be released

  - 2006-10-29

  JAKARTA AFP — The jailed son of ex-Indonesian president Suharto will be released after serving just half of his 10-year term for ordering the murder of a judge, an official was quoted as saying. The release of Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra Suharto will likely spark uproar among anti-corruption activists in...

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• US presses Indonesian leader over rights activist's murder case

  - 2006-10-18

  WASHINGTON AFP — Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is under US pressure to get to the bottom of a leading human rights lawyer's murder case which suggested a cover up and links to the powerful national intelligence agency. The human rights arm of the US Congress held a staff briefing...

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• Forest destruction leaves Indonesian farmers facing landslide risk

  - 2006-02-17

  PATAKBANTENG, Indonesia AFP — The terraced hills of this Indonesian village are a perfect place for crops to thrive, with a rich soil that supports tobacco, corn, potatoes and the occasional banana palm. But for the farmers who work the slopes of the volcanic island of Java, a danger...

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• Indonesian farmers facing landslide risk

  - 2006-01-19

  PATAKBANTENG, Indonesia AFP — The terraced hills of this Indonesian village are a perfect place for crops to thrive, with a rich soil that supports tobacco, corn, potatoes and the occasional banana palm. But for the farmers who work the slopes of the volcanic island of Java, a danger...

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• Indonesian activists file police complaint against controversial road plan

  - 2004-03-04

  JAKARTA AFP ? Indonesian environmental activists filed a police complaint against plans to build a road network through a huge conservation area in Sumatra island. Indro Tjahyono, coordinator of the Network for Forestry Conservation, said he filed the complaint in Jakarta against Infrastructure Minister Sunarno and the governor of...

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