Indonesia: Flood tragedy in Sumatra on account of road project

World Rainforest Movement – WRM Bulletin 77, December 2003

International Secretariat Maldonado 1858; Montevideo, Uruguay
E-Mail: wrm@wrm.org.uy
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Editor: Ricardo Carrere

With more than a year into its construction, the controversial US$1.2 million Ladia Galaska road network project will link the west coast of Aceh with the eastern coast of northern Sumatra. Over 90 kilometers out of the planned 505-kilometer-long road cuts through the relatively pristine forest of the central highlands at the Leuser ... read more

Posted on 02:25 PM in Aceh, Disasters, Indonesia, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: Aceh, illegal logging, Indonesia, disasters, rain forest destruction, environment and climate

(Deutsch) Hermesbürgschaft für Regenwaldzerstörung muss gestoppt werden!

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Posted on 02:45 PM in Joint Press Releases & Statements, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Pulp & Paper, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
Tags: export credit agency (ECA), Indonesia, human rights, pulp and paper, protest action, rain forest destruction, environment and climate

(Deutsch) Hermesbürgschaft für Regenwaldzerstörung stoppen

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Posted on 10:27 AM in Indonesia, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: Government of Germany, export credit agency (ECA), Indonesia, pulp and paper, protest action, rain forest destruction, environment and climate

Flood desaster in Bukit Lawang

09 November, 2003

Watch Indonesia! – call for help

Dear readers,

enclosed we send you some new information on the flood disaster in Bukit Lawang/Bohorok, North Sumatra. Politicians blame illegal loggers for the disaster, labelling them as „terrorists“. However, we don´t know yet what kind of action they are planning to take in this new kind of „war on terrorism“. Meanwhile The Jakarta Post reports on heavy irregularities in the distribution of donations to ... read more

Posted on 03:17 PM in Disasters, Indonesia, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch's Press Releases & Statements
Tags: humanitarian aid, illegal logging, Indonesia, rain forest destruction, environment and climate

Walhi Demands A Halt To Freeport Mine Operations

WALHI press release, October 11, 2003

Friends of the Earth Indonesia, (WALHI) demands the government halt operations at the Grasberg mine (known as Freeport) following a disastrous landslide on Thursday morning 9 October 2003. The Grasberg mine in West Papua is jointly owned by USA-based Freeport McMoran and UK/Australian mining company Rio Tinto Ltd.

“This event proves Freeport is not competent to handle the current high level of mining production. The government must immediately enforce a reduction in the Freeport production capacity” ... read more

Posted on 04:29 PM in Disasters, Indonesia, Mining, Environment & Climate
Tags: mining, Indonesia, disasters, Papua, government, environment and climate

(Deutsch) Asien-Reise zur Förderung einer ökologisch und sozial verträglichen Wald- und Papierwirtschaft in Indonesien und zur Lösung der Umschuldung des APP-Konzerns nutzen!

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Posted on 04:33 PM in Joint Open Letters, Indonesia, Publications, Pulp & Paper, Environment & Climate
Tags: Government of Germany, export credit agency (ECA), Indonesia, pulp and paper, rain forest destruction, environment and climate

Indorayon puts human life and environment at risk

Vereinte Evangelische Mission
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United Evangelical Mission
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Press Release, 01/30/2003

UEM against the reopening of pulp mill in Indonesia

Wuppertal, 30th January 2003 – The UEM supports the protest of Indonesian churches and NGOs against the reopening of the PT Inti Indorayon Utama pulp mill in North ... read more

Posted on 05:13 PM in Joint Press Releases & Statements, Indonesia, Publications, Pulp & Paper, Environment & Climate
Tags: Indonesia, Megawati Sukarnoputri, pulp and paper, protest action, rain forest destruction, Sumatra, environment and climate

(Deutsch) Watch Indonesia! – ein Auge auf den Inselstaat

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Posted on 06:53 AM in Human Rights, Indonesia, East Timor, Publications, Transitional Justice, Transitional Justice, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: German-Indonesian relations, Indonesia, justice, conflict 1975 - 1999, human rights, East Timor, referendum 1999, transitional justice, environment and climate

Environmental Agreement For ECAs at The OECD Threatened by German Government Obstructionism

17 September 2001

LETTER TO GERMANY’S CHANCELLOR SCHROEDER

BACKGROUND:

Negotiations have continued for more than two years at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for an environmental agreement for Export Credit and Investment Insurance Agencies (ECAs). These negotiations represent an important first step toward binding, stringent, internationally accepted and common social, environmental and human rights standards for ECAs. ECAs are the world’s largest sources of public finance for destructive large-scale infrastructure projects in low income countries. They are responsible for ... read more

Posted on 04:59 PM in Joint Open Letters, Human Rights, Indonesia, Mining, Publications, Pulp & Paper, Environment & Climate
Tags: mining, export credit agency (ECA), Indonesia, human rights, pulp and paper, Papua, rain forest destruction, environment and climate

(Deutsch) Hermes

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Posted on 04:02 AM in Economy, Labor & Corruption, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate, SUARA magazine
Tags: Government of Germany, Germany, dictator Suharto, export credit agency (ECA), Indonesia, Indonesien-Information (renamed SUARA), corruption, pulp and paper, environment and climate, economy and business, SUARA magazine