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        "id": 1101374,
        "msgid": "leuser-park-must-be-protected-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-10-26 00:00:00",
        "title": "Leuser Park 'must be protected'",
        "author": null,
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Leuser Park 'must be protected' MEDAN, North Sumatra: At least 14 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and environmentalists expressed on Thursday their opposition to plans to exploit the Leuser National Park. \"The ecosystem at the park has been disturbed.",
        "content": "<p>Leuser Park 'must be protected'<\/p>\n<p>MEDAN, North Sumatra: At least 14 nongovernmental<br>\norganizations (NGOs) and environmentalists expressed on Thursday<br>\ntheir opposition to plans to exploit the Leuser National Park.<\/p>\n<p>\"The ecosystem at the park has been disturbed. Now that some<br>\ncompanies have expressed their wish to invest in plantations,<br>\nmining and infrastructure development, the Leuser park will be<br>\nfurther damaged environmentally,\" said Asrul Juned, an executive<br>\nof the Indonesian Forest Conservation Network (Skephi).<\/p>\n<p>The NGOs expressed their own opposition in separate<br>\ninterviews.<\/p>\n<p>Asrul said that the plan to exploit the park ought to be<br>\naborted soon or very serious damage to the forest would take<br>\nplace.<\/p>\n<p>Leuser National Park, with its protected forest, is located in<br>\nNorth Sumatra province but the adjacent provinces like Aceh<br>\ndepend on it considerably.<\/p>\n<p>At least three of the 14 NGOs protesting the plan for Leuser<br>\npark were Aceh Singkil Environment Lovers, Fakta, an NGO dealing<br>\nwith the environment and Tembah Pea Lestari, an NGO based in East<br>\nAceh. --Antara<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/leuser-park-must-be-protected-1447893297",
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