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The Jakarta Post, July 5, 2010 Nine months after Indonesia declared its ambitious pledge to cut emissions with its own money, doubts remain on if the government can meet its own target, with no clear supporting regulations made. Environmentalists and legal experts said the absence of a legal tool showed the government’s lack of seriousness in cutting emissions as promised at international forums. |
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The Jakarta Post , July 5, 2010 More than five weeks since President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono committed to a two-year moratorium on the conversion of primary forests and peatlands into oil palm plantations, related ministries and palm oil companies have remained confused about how the program will be implemented. True, the moratorium Yudhoyono agreed on with the Norwegian government in Oslo late in May hit the roots of the problem that has prompted international environmentalists to label Indonesia the world’s third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. |
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The Jakarta Post June 29, 2010 Indonesia has been the world’s largest exporter of seaborne thermal coal since 2005, enjoying the advantages of low production costs as most of its estimated 95 billion tons of reserves allow for open-cast mining, its coals produce low emission of sulphur, and the country is geographically part of Asia, the world’s coal largest market. |
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The Jakarta Post, July 5, 2010 It didn’t take long for palm oil producers to respond to Norway’s recently signed US$1 billion grant, given in exchange for a two-year moratorium on any new clearing of Indonesia’s rainforest and peatlands. Association of Palm Oil Producers secretary-general Joko Supriyono urged the government to reassess the planned moratorium, citing that its members were struggling with forest concessions that contained unproductive land not suitable for productive growth. Indonesian Palm Oil Commission executive director Rosediana Suharto went further, noting that developing countries including Indonesia need to prioritize economic development over the environment. |
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Adianto P. Simamora, THE JAKARTA POST, JAKARTA | Sat, 06/26/2010 12:29 PM | National The Forestry Ministry has said that it could allocate only 170,000 hectares of the nation's 21 million hectares of peatlands for a carbon trading deal struck recently with Norway. The preliminary estimate also stated that about 25 million hectares of natural forest could be covered by the two year moratorium on concessions for forest and peatland conversion as stipulated in the Letter of Intent (LoI) signed by Indonesia and Norway. "We still need to discuss it *the figures* with other departments," director general of forest production development at the Forestry Ministry Hadi Daryanto told reporters. |
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