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Indonesia, Australia launch A$30 mln forest CO2 project
Indonesia and Australia launched a A$30 million project on Tuesday to fight deforestation in Sumatra as part of efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and boost a planned forest-carbon trading scheme. The project, to target Sumatra’s Jambi province that has suffered rapid deforestation, is the second joint venture between the neighbouring countries keen to learn how [...] -
Indonesia: police to deploy thousands for Dec. 9 anti-graft protest
In the latest development in the ongoing anticorruption saga in Indonesia, thousands of police officers will be deployed to maintain order at an expected anti-graft protest tomorrow in Jakarta. The protests will coincide with World Anti-Corruption Day. Popular pressure in Indonesia continues to mount over corruption allegations against the Yudhoyono government. The president has been slow [...] -
Indonesia to drop charges against anti-graft officials
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s attorney general will drop allegedly bogus charges against two senior anti-graft investigators at the centre of a bitter feud with police, an official said Monday. The culmination of a scandal that has gripped the nation for months is expected Tuesday when a Jakarta court is scheduled to approve an order to terminate the [...]
