Lobbying Two Ministers

Transgenic cotton only withstood three planting seasons in South Sulawesi. It passed thanks to repeated lobbying at the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Environment.

1998

August 1 PT Monagro Kimia submits a request for trials of transgenic cotton produced by Monsanto with Agriculture Minister Soleh Solahuddin.

November 27 Soleh’s wife, Siti Sianah Soleh, asks Monagro for a house at the Bogor Raya Lake. Monagro President

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