BALIKPAPAN
Saying No to Coal
The most spectacular policy is the suspended issuance of coal mining licenses for the next 20 years. Its urban forest is a landmark.
January 12, 2011
YOU want to live alongside orangutans, honey bears, panthers, proboscis monkeys, white-forehead and red-forehead long tailed monkeys, and deer? Take up residence in Balikpapan. In the middle of the city there's 10,000-hectare Sungai Wain protected forest now still well-conserved. This urban forest is the habitat of Kalimantan's indigenous animals. Over half of Balikpapan city's 530,000-hectare area is designated for the development of a green zone a
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