Posts Tagged ‘Environment’
FT.com’s beyondbrics is optimistic about the future of agriculture in Indonesia: Agriculture already accounts for at least 15 per cent of Indonesia’s GDP, employs nearly 43 per cent of the country’s available labour force and generates annual trade flows of $44.5bn In the article, a Rabobank report also elaborated on Indonesia’s key agricultural products, where palm [...]
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Tags: Environment, Indonesia, orangutan, palm oil
Remnants of Sidoarjo
On 28 May 2011, five years will pass since hot mud and poisonous gas first spewed outside of the Banjar-Panji 1 gas exploration well in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia. Last year I went to Sidoarjo to see with my own eyes the damage of what could bethe biggest forgotten environmental disaster in Indonesia. In a country that is ridden with amnesia, here are some reminders – pictures and untold stories of the remnants of Sidoarjo.
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Tags: Environment, Indonesia, mud flow, pollution, Sidoarjo
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