'Selective' Fires at Oil Palm Plantations
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
The concession is owned by Best Agro Plantation Group, and is located in Pulang Pisau Regency, Central Kalimantan Province.
Bambang, a professor of forest fire and environment at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture, was suspicious; the only trees being spared, he said, were the planted palm trees. "Somehow, the fire was so smart it knew how to choose locations," he told Tempo last week. The plantations are located at the site of the former 'Million Hectares of Peatland for Agriculture' mega-project created under autocrat President Suharto.
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The concession is owned by Best Agro Plantation Group, and is located in Pulang Pisau Regency, Central Kalimantan Province.
Bambang, a professor of forest fire and environment at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture, was suspicious; the only trees being spared, he said, were the planted palm trees. "Somehow, the fire was so smart it knew how to choose locations," he told Tempo last week. The plantations are located at the site of the former 'Million He
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