Peatlands: Hidden Gem or Idle Land?
Peatlands are on the headlines again: fires on peatlands, to be exact. It was serious enough that President Jokowi reiterated his vow to fight against forest and land fires. It was also serious enough to drive a mob of company-backed locals to hold and threaten government investigators to hand over their findings during a field probe into these fires last week.
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September 13, 2016
Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies 15, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia's Peatlands: Ecology, Economy and Society
Editors: Kosuke Mizuno, Motoko S. Fujita, Shuichi Kawai
NUS Press, Singapore in association with Kyoto University Press, Japan.
FOREST fires are back in Sumatra, although not at a dire extent as 2015, after a relatively wet period in the first half of this year.The gover
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