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Budi Otmansyah | September 23, 2010 Pekanbaru, Riau. An oil palm plantation worker in Riau province was mauled to death by a Sumatran tiger on Monday night.
The victim was identified as Sugianto, 35, a resident of Air Raja village in Bengkalis district.
The attack occurred at the plantation at around 11 p.m.
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Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 09/23/2010 9:28 AM | National The government says it is set to clean the country’s 13 biggest rivers, which have been polluted to dangerous levels.
The Environment Ministry said that of the 13, Ciliwung is the most polluted with 110 million E. coli bacteria per liter of water in the downstream area, more than one thousand times higher than the allowable level of 100,000 E. coli per liter.
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Fidelis E. Satriastanti | September 22, 2010 The Jakarta Globe Jakarta. As government officials struggle for a response to the complex problem of climate change, regular people are already fighting the good fight, Emil Salim, a prominent environmentalist, said on Tuesday.
Emil, a former environment minister and current special adviser to the president, was speaking at the launch of the book “Indonesian Eco Heroes.”
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Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 09/23/2010 9:41 AM | National The central government will take over investigations carried out by local administrations into illicit plantation and mining firms operating in forested area without permits from the Forestry Ministry, officials said. |
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September 22, 2010 Reuters US climate envoy Todd Stern said on Tuesday that there was little chance of November’s Cancun UN climate conference resulting in a legal treaty to reduce greenhouse emissions. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) New York. World powers are not aiming for a legally binding pact to fight global warming at a UN meeting in Mexico this year and are trying to stop backsliding from a 2009 agreement, the United States said on Tuesday.
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