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Greenpeace statement on law enforcement in forest and peatland fire cases
Jakarta, September 5 2016 -- Indonesia’s response to forest fires is being hampered by a crisis in law enforcement. Not only have police failed to reinstate over a dozen dropped investigations into pulpwood and oil palm plantation companies in Riau [1] but over the weekend an angry mob held fire investigators hostage at a palm…
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As dangerous business practices go unpunished, Indonesia’s fires and haze return
New maps released today by Greenpeace for Riau and West Kalimantan show that many fires are occurring on industrial plantation concessions in the same areas that burned last year.
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Community dam in Kalimantan builds a solution to Indonesian forest fires and climate change
Greenpeace together with CIMTROP and SOB today took bold direct action showing the way towards a future grounded in rainforest and peatland restoration, tackling the causes of this year’s disastrous fires.
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President Joko Widodo’s peatland ban ‘sets the bar’ for action on climate change
Greenpeace welcomes a new Indonesian government policy immediately banning clearance and exploitation of peatland across Indonesia, and requiring drainage canals to be blocked to raise groundwater levels close to the peat surface, to avoid peat fires.
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Greenpeace calls on Indonesia’s plantation industry to adopt Fire Action Plan
Greenpeace has launched a challenge to the plantation industry to respond to the devastating scale of the forest fires crisis
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End Indonesia’s fires by ending forest and peatland destruction
Environmental NGOs including Greenpeace met with President Joko Widodo at the palace on Friday to discuss solutions to the peatlands and forest fires crisis.
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Fire hotspots expose gaps in Indonesia’s forests moratorium
Greenpeace revealed half of the fire hotspots detected between June 11-18 that are choking Singapore and Malaysia with air pollution are in areas that should be protected by Indonesia’s forest moratorium.
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A chance to change history
Kumi Naidoo arrived in Indonesia - a country at the frontier of deforestation and climate change, for a chance to change history.
