‘Kalimantan’ News
"The Madam Curie Complex" Sample Chapter: Part Two "Louis Leakey’s ‘Primitive’ Feminism" [Thus Spake Zuska]
The job was done and it was time to move on, time to go back to “real life.” I went to Indonesia for so-called “female” reasons: I wanted to help. If I had to take risks, I did. But I...
Astra Says More Roads, Low Rates Key to Indonesia Sales Growth
Astra has signed a conditional agreement to acquire a mine on Borneo island and may buy two more this year, Sugiarto said. To contact the reporter on this story: Achmad Sukarsono in Jakarta at asukarsonobloomberg.net. To…Source: Business...
ScienceShot: Orangutans Decipher Each Other’s Calls
A new study examined orangutans’ long-distance calls, which travel as far as 1 kilometer, in Borneo’s rainforest in Indonesia. Listening in on the calls from three males and observing how females reacted, researchers confirmed…Source: Science ...
Insights into India-Singapore relations
In Manila, the three countries also subscribed to the idea of MAPHILINDO. Lee Kuan Yew spoke against the Manila…Source: The Hindu ...
New judge to hear Sidang Injil Borneo’s ‘Allah’ case
Not a Subscriber?, not just to read the news, but to support…Source: Malaysiakini ...
Indonesian-Australian carbon project in Sumatra
Rapid deforestation in Indonesia by legal and illegal loggers has made Indonesia one of the highest emitters of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. Indonesia…Source: EcoEarth News ...
Australia pays Indonesia $27 million to save trees
Half the area has been cleared and half is still forested but under threat unless alternative livelihoods are found…Source: Dawn ...
Why we are failing orangutans
Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com March 01, 2010 It is no secret that orangutans are threatened with extinction because their rain forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate.Source: Mongabay.com ...
Better off
Steaven Halim of Lyman Agro points to the roads, schools and health clinics that have been built as proof of the company’s commitment…Source: BBC News ...
Indonesia: Orangutan survival and the shopping trolley
A BBC Panorama investigation into clear-cutting in Indonesian Borneo – the island it shares with Malaysia – found that the thirst for land on which to plant palm plantations is encroaching…Source: EcoEarth News ...
