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        "id": 1422392,
        "msgid": "peat-land-project-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-12-08 00:00:00",
        "title": "Peat land project",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Peat land project The facts show that the one-million hectare peat land development project has totally failed. Billions of rupiah have gone down the drain. The nation has suffered losses several times over; we have lost natural resources and the biodiversity of millions of hectares of land. Included are millions of cubic meters of wood (these are the comparatively easier calculated resources) wiped away by companies with timber felling permits.",
        "content": "<p>Peat land project<\/p>\n<p>The facts show that the one-million hectare peat land<br>\ndevelopment project has totally failed. Billions of rupiah have<br>\ngone down the drain. The nation has suffered losses several times<br>\nover; we have lost natural resources and the biodiversity of<br>\nmillions of hectares of land. Included are millions of cubic<br>\nmeters of wood (these are the comparatively easier calculated<br>\nresources) wiped away by companies with timber felling permits.<br>\nThe one-million hectare peat land project is more aptly named the<br>\none-million hectare peat land destruction project.<\/p>\n<p>So where did all the timber and the trading profits go to? No<br>\nless than the acting governor of Central Kalimantan raised the<br>\nmatter recently. If the timber was sold for US$15 per cubic meter<br>\n(about Rp 109,500 at US$1 = Rp 7,300), and if the timber felled<br>\namounted to 10 million cubic meters (one hectare yields 10 cubic<br>\nmeters of timber) how many trillion rupiah would we get?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, and most importantly, we suffer an uncountable<br>\nhumanitarian loss when a civilization of indigenous people or<br>\nlocals who have lived in harmony with nature is destroyed; at<br>\nleast 800,000 inhabitants were moved for the project.<\/p>\n<p>While State Minister of Environment Soni Keraf has stated that<br>\nhis priority in his first 100 days will be efforts for legal<br>\nsettlement of large-scale cases such as PT Inti Indorayon Utama,<br>\nPT Freeport Indonesia and the peat land development project, we<br>\nhope the minister has the capacity and power to settle the cases<br>\nin the shortest possible time. The minister should closely study<br>\nlaw enforcement attempts, such as demands for compensation for 49<br>\npeople from Batunjung Kapuas, a suit which they won in court.<\/p>\n<p>A more strategic issue is the lawsuit of the Indonesian<br>\nEnvironmental Forum (Walhi) against the President of the Republic<br>\nof Indonesia and nine ministers for abuse of power in the peat<br>\nland project which has brought on disastrous effects<br>\neconomically, socially and culturally, and also in regard to the<br>\nenvironment.<\/p>\n<p>The minister should make transparent efforts made toward legal<br>\nsettlements pertaining to the violators.<\/p>\n<p>HENING PURWATI<\/p>\n<p>Jakarta<\/p>",
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