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Greenpeace Under Fire
21 jul 2011 in Palm Oil NewsLegislator Effendy Choirie of the Ntional Awakening Party (PKB) and intelligence expert Wawan Purwanto holds a book titled Menguak Dusta-dusta Greenpeace (Exposing Greenpeace’s Lies) by S. Hidayatullah in a discussion at the House of Representatives on Wednesday. Greenpeace Indonesia, a prominent…
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New Law Mandates Single Reference for Official Maps
20 jul 2011 in Palm Oil NewsDespite funding shortages, a new law obliges government institutions to use a single source for geographical mapping as its policy reference.National Coordinating Agency for Land Survey and Mapping (Bakosurtanal) head Asep Karsidi said the 2011 Geo-spatial Information Law stipulated that government…
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FBR Reports Greenpeace to Council
13 jul 2011 in Palm Oil NewsJAKARTA-Representatives of the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) met city councillors on Tuesdy to complain about Greenpeace's legal status in Jakarta. "Greenpeace's failure to register itself (as an NGO) violates indonesian law," FBR member Ibrahim told councillors on Tuesday. According to reports, Greenpeace…
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Australia's Move Bad Precedent for CPO Business, Says GAPKI
05 jul 2011 in Palm Oil NewsAustralia's proposed palm oil bil requiring products containing palm oil to have explicit labels is discriminatory, and could become a bad precedent for other importing countries, local palm oil producers say. Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki/IPOA) chairman Fadhil Hasan said on Monday in Jakarta…
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Proposed Palm Oil Law "Goes Against Aussie Government Policy"
27 jun 2011 in Palm Oil NewsMalaysia can still stop Australia from passing a law that will discriminate palm oil, said an Australia-based world trade expert, who feels the move goes against Australian policy. "If the Malaysian government gave the Australian government incentive enough to resist the measure and explained to the…
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