Palm Oil Converted 16,000 hectares of Elephants Conservations Leaving Only 50 Hectares of Swamp
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Apr 05, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Balai Raja Wildlife Conservation Area in Sebanga village, Duri, Riau, has almost completely disappeared. The 16,000 hectares of forest area established as an elephant conservation area in early 1990s is no longer exist due to palm oil plantation conversions.
An Elephant in Balai Raja Conservation
When Kompas visited the Elephant Training Center in Sebanga, Duri, some 125 kilometers from the capital Pekanbaru, Riau, Saturday...
7 Meters Python Eats 13 yrs Old Kid
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Apr 02, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Anybody would be scared and traumatized upon hearing that a big snake swallows M Zakaria (13 yrs) an junior high students at Tembung junior high when he was swimming along with five of his buddies at Tembung River, Deli Serdang Regency, North Sumatera.
The big snake or commonly referred to by the term Anaconda was a really shocking Tembung citizens and residents of North Sumatra in general.
This is the same size python...
Kit Kat Responsible For Orangutan Killings and Forest Destruction
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Mar 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Environmental group Greenpeace strongly criticized PT Nestle Indonesia continuation to buy its material from PT Sinar Mas which is one of the largest, publicly-listed, integrated palm-based consumer companies in Indonesia. Greenpeace urges PT Nestle to immediately cease all cooperation with PT Sinar Mas, suspected to be the largest peat soil destroyer in Indonesia.
Greenpeace Activist in Nestle Kit Kat Office
This demand...
Elephants Attacked Two Villages in Riau Causing Resident To Evacuate
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Mar 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Two farmers’ villages in Mandau, Bengkalis, Riau, were “taken over” by a herd of wild elephants. The starving animals’ forced dozens of families in the villages to evacuate.
The villagers reported the herd of elephants was originally numbered around 45. Though the number is a lot less now but they still control the villages.
Elephants Rampage Causes Villagers to Evacuate
“For the past two weeks we have been...
Democracy, Election is Funded by Debt
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Mar 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment
(Situbondo, West Java) East Java Election Committee Baino Ali Imran confirmed that the heads of regency’s election will continue even if the elections have to be funded by debt.
“Election Committee is committed to hold Situbondo election on time, even though the budget for the election has not been approved by the local Government and Situbondo assembly.” Baino said on Thursday (18/03/2010)
Baino said that the Election...
Municipal Waste Landfill Colapsed Killing 4
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Mar 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment
(Bogor, West Java, Indonesia) Four people were buried alive under a landfill slide in Bogor West Java, Indonesia. The accident happened in Galuga Municipal Waste storage in Cibungbulang, Bogor on Tuesday (16/03/2010) around 3 pm Indonesian time.
Most of the victims were children garbage picker. Eight more people were also badly hurt. “When they were selecting anything of value out of the dump site, the pile was suddenly...
Teacher Fired for Reporting Corruption
Posted by Jakarta Updates on Mar 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
(Liputan6, Boyolali, Central Java) A teacher reported some cases of alleged corruption within the Department of Education Youth and Sports in Boyolali, Central Java. The same teachers also reported allegations of corruption regarding a project to build school fence worth hundreds of millions of Rupiah.
Teacher fired for reporting Corruption
Yet strangely, despite the report was substantiated and some school officials...
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