-- --------- Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:22:46 From: "fitri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <undisclosed-recipients:;> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 7:09 PM Subject: Indonesia issues 21 new forest concessions > Indonesia issues 21 new forest concessions > > JAKARTA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Indonesia, long criticised for the plundering of > its vast rain forests, on Monday said it would open up more jungle to > loggers. > > Indonesia, desperate to raise revenue for its ravaged economy, has about 140 > million hectares (350 million acres) of rain forest, second only to Brazil. > Almost half the amount is under logging concessions. > > "We will issue 70 forest concessions. Some 21 are new concessions. The > remaining 49 are given to timber firms to extend their existing concessions > which expire in December," Soegeng Widodo, Director General of Forest > Production and Utilisation, told reporters. > > Most of the concessions are held by conglomerates. Barito Pacific <BRPT.JK>, > one of the biggest, holds about 2.7 million hectares. > > Conservationists have accused loggers of of destroying huge tracts of > valuable jungle and of wandering out of their concessions, often into > national parks, in their search for choice trees. > > They have also been charged with using fires to clear land, adding to the > haze of smoke which has intermittently plagued neighbouring Southeast Asian > countries. > --------- End Forwarded Message --------- Get FREE Email/Voicemail with 15MB at Lycos Communications at http://comm.lycos.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulai langganan: kirim e-mail ke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop langganan: kirim e-mail ke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive ada di http://www.mail-archive.com/envorum@ypb.or.id
