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Natural Resources Conservation Office of Riau has arrested a 92 year old man for killing more than 50 Sumatran tigers over his lifetime. “At first we didn’t believe Grandpa Wiryo was a tiger hunter, but after we conducted surveillance, we finally arrested the suspect with three sacks of evidenc...
The country has reduced its slum population by at least half in the last two decades, the fastest among Southeast Asian countries, according to a United Nations report released on Friday. “State of the World’s Cities 2010/2011: Bridging the Urban Divide,” an annual report released by the orga...
Dont miss to watch football live on Indonesian Television for this weekend. ISL on ANTVPERSIK VS PERSIJAP - Saturday 20 Maret 2010 at 18:30 WIBPERSEBAYA vs PERSELA - Sunday 21 March 2010 at 15:00 WIBEPL on TV OneStoke City vs Tottenham Hotspur - Saturday 20 March 2010 21:30 WIBArsenal vs West Ham U...
With the international community failing to agree on how to tackle climate change, Vice President Boediono on Thursday called for more research and action to mitigate and adapt to the new conditions Camelia Pasandaran | Jakarta Globe | March 18, 2010 “I cannot help but begin my remarks on a ra...
Bolivia will host an international meeting on climate change next month because it is not prepared to 'betray its people' Pablo Solón Romero | guardian.co.uk | 19 March 2010 Bolivia's UN ambassador Pablo Solon-Romero during a press conference. Photograph: Paulo Filgueiras/UN Photo In...
Farmers who plant forest should be exempt from inheritance tax, an influential committee of MPs has suggested By Louise Gray | Telegraph.co.uk | 19 Mar 2010 The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee said millions more trees need to be planted across Britain to tackle climate chang...
There are always pluses and minuses for everything, and context determines which ones are heavier than the others at a certain point of time. I'm not talking about serious matters, even though the same principle applies as well. It's about being either on a driver's or a passenger's seat. It is...
The trials have started for four members of Commission IX of the House of Representatives from the 1999-2004 period. They are suspected of having received traveler's cheques during the election of the 2004 Bank Indonesia (BI) senior deputy governor. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has ch...
The Jakarta administration is planning to convert the Marunda area in North Jakarta into a special economic zone (SEZ) to serve logistics purposes, according to The Jakarta Post. "We will call it the `Ali Sadikin Logistics Center'," Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo said. Fauzi said the new SEZ would be...
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Plans for a coal power plant in the Malaysian state of Sabah in northern Borneo have run into stiff opposition. Environmentalists say the coal plant could damage extensive coral reef systems, pollute water supplies, open rainforests to mining, and contribute to global climate change, undercutting Sa...
Action on climate is justified, not because the science is certain, but precisely because it is not The Economist | Mar 18th 2010 CLIMATE-change legislation, dormant for six months, is showing signs of life again in Washington, DC. This week senators and industrial groups have been discuss...
The decline of a once wildly popular idea The Economist | Mar 18th 2010 Gaia lent an unhelpful hand IN THE 1990s cap-and-trade—the idea of reducing carbon-dioxide emissions by auctioning off a set number of pollution permits, which could then be traded in a market—was the darling of the...
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On 11 March 2010, an international conference took place in Paris, hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy: the International Conference on the Major Forest Basins. While 64 nations took part in the conference, Indigenous Peoples were not invited. A press release from the Forest Peoples Programme...
Two weeks ago, journalist Johann Hari wrote a searing article in The Nation, raising important questions about conservation NGOs that accept funding from polluting corporations. Hari argues that the funding appears to have influenced the actions the NGOs take to address climate change. “Sometimes...
The "arrogance" of rich countries at the Copenhagen climate summit in December contributed to the negotiations' "disappointing" outcome, a leading economist has told the BBC AFP in Google News | March 17, 2010 Nicholas Stern, a Briton who authored an influential 2006 report o...
Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general on Tuesday appeared to be at odds with his own climate change envoy over the role the UN should play in securing international agreement on tackling global warming By Harvey Morris | Financial Times | March 17 2010 Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations...
Some of the most beautiful areas of England are releasing millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year because of damage to peat bogs, environment watchdogs have warned By Louise Gray | Telegraph.co.uk | 18 Mar 2010 Peatlands in beauty spots like Exmoor and the Peak Distri...
The climate change debate should be reframed in economic and security terms ahead of a year-end UN summit inMexico seeking a binding climate deal, the president of the Maldives said Wednesday AFP in Yahoo! News | Mar 17, 2010 AFP/File – Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed -- pictured in Colo...
State University of Indonesia in cooperation with the Association of Pacific Rim University-World Institute (APRU-AWI) plans to hold an international conference on climate change, its spokesman, Vishnu Juwono, said ANTARA News | March 18, 2010 He said the conference is scheduled to be opened...
