Protected Forest for Rent!

Only two month after hosting the COP-13 of UNFCCC and amid of serial disasters, Government of Indonesia under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) renew the regulation of commercial activities inside the protected forest.

House slammed over mudflow disaster decision

Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Human rights and anti-corruption activists lashed out at the House of Representatives on Tuesday for failing to make the government and Lapindo Brantas Inc. properly compensate victims of the mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java.

Riau haze blamed for rise in health woes

Rizal Harahap, The Jakarta Post, Pekanbaru

The Riau Health Office announced Monday 1,547 people were suffering from a number of afflictions from the haze caused by forest fires in the province over the past two weeks.

Protected Forest for Rent!

Only two month after hosting the COP-13 of UNFCCC and amid of serial disasters, Government of Indonesia under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) renew the regulation of commercial activities inside the protected forest.

This regulation is President Decree Number 2/2008 on Types and Tariff of Non-Tax Income of Utilizing the Forestry Areas for Development in addition to Forestry Activities that under the Department of Forestry and signed since February 4, 2008.

Kyoto is just not enough

Indonesia is a good sample of how the global warming had giving a concrete treats the livehood of the people. Amidst of the unstoppable national economic crisis, serial disasters, such floods, droughts, landslides, hurricane, increasing sea level, etc in the last few years showed how the environmental degradation also had pushed a social destruction.