Indonesia Suspends Controversial Paper Company’s License to Review Environmental Record

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Nov 20

Indonesia Suspends Controversial Paper Company’s License to Review Environmental Record
kampar peninsula photo
The Kampar Peninsula is the last large intact area of pear swamp forest in Riau, Indonesia with some of the deepest peat (read: most stored carbon). Photo: Greenpeace.

Indonesia may have deported a total of thirteen activists and two journalists over deforestation in the past week (boo!) but it also just suspended the license of Asia Pacific Resources International Limited to review the company’s permits (yay!). APRIL has been targeted by <a href=”http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/press-center/releases2/indonesia-suspend…
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