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·10/10/2008 - Florida Hopes Energy Farm Will Be First of Many, Inter Press Service
·13/7/2008 - Indonesia and Brazil to cooperate on biofuel, Radio New Zealand
·12/7/2008 - Indonesia, Brazil say to cooperate on biofuel, Reuters
·24/6/2008 - Indonesia: Biofuels threaten food security and environment, Jakarta Press
·2/6/2008 - Biofuels boom risks increasing landlessness among world’s poor, Post
·10/5/2008 - Indonesia: Palm oil wiping out key orangutan habitat: activists, Agence France-Presse
·2/5/2008 - Indonesia Biofuel Not Behind Environment, Food Woes, Reuters
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·Rush to Biofuels, The -- Not All Biofuels Are Created Equal
·South-East Asia's Peat Fires and Global Warming
·Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK
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- 1. Indonesia Biofuel Not Behind Environment, Food Woes Rank: 74%
- Food Woes Indonesia's biofuel sector is not a major force destroying tropical forests or squeezing out land used for food production, a senior industry official told Reuters on Wednesday. The grain and oilseed-based biofuel sector has come under attack from green groups for accelerating the destruction of forests, while some analysts blame it for contributing to soaring world food prices by diverting crops that could be used for food. "There is no proof that palm oil plantations clear the...
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- 2. Indonesia: Biofuel era has arrived Rank: 74%
- million liters next year and 1.3 billion liters by 2010, or the equivalent of 3 percent of the country's total fuel consumption of 41 million kiloliters in 2005. These targets are ambitious, to say the least. Even the U.S., which began developing biofuel much earlier than Indonesia, produced only about 280 million liters of biodiesel blends last year. American biofuel consumption, including ethanol, so far accounts for a mere 3 percent of the country's total fuel demand. Purnomo himself...
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- 3. Indonesia: Biofuels threaten food security and environment Rank: 74%
- have on the country's rapidly diminishing rainforests. It's a cruel irony that biofuels, which were developed as an alternative to greenhouse gas-emitting petroleum, threaten the environment. Experts fear that the attractive revenues derived from biofuels will result in a surge toward the conversion of conservation-rich land. Land use in Indonesia is already complicated and muddled without this additional burden. An airplane view of much of Sumatra and Kalimantan shows a scarred and chaotic...
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- 4. Indonesia: Biofuel to Drive Indonesian Palm Oil Expansion Rank: 73%
- Expansion JAKARTA - Indonesia's government plans to develop 3 million hectares of palm oil plantations in the next five years to meet increasing demand for biofuel as an alternative source of energy, the agriculture minister said on Wednesday. Anton Apriyantono said two million hectares will be developed on the Kalimantan side of Borneo island and the rest in other parts of Indonesia. The government said last year it will develop a new palm oil plantation in Kalimantan near the border with...
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- 5. Indonesia betting on biofuel crops as its regal forests dwindle Rank: 73%
- critical to supporting local people. Governments and companies have been scrambling to cash in since palm oil prices jumped last year amid spiking demand from China, India and Europe, where biofuels should comprise 10 percent of motor fuels by 2020. Indonesia has launched a particularly ambitious biofuels expansion program, which aims to source 17 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2025. Evita Herawati, an assistant to Indonesia's minister of energy, said 5.5 million hectares...
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- 6. Indonesia: Orangutans squeezed by biofuel boom Rank: 73%
- squeezed by biofuel boom Naingolan shunts the excavator into high gear and tears into a patch of smoldering forest on Borneo island, clearing the way for yet another palm oil plantation that Indonesia hopes will tap into a surge in global demand for biofuels. Despite government claims pristine jungles are escaping the effects of the "green solution" to the energy crunch, the boom is threatening the survival of animals like the endangered orangutan and turning the country into a major global...
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- 7. Indonesia: BP in talks to enter biofuel business Rank: 73%
- enter biofuel business British-based oil giant BP Plc. is currently in talks with a local company to jointly set up a biofuel business in Indonesia so as to benefit from the country's ambitious alternative energy program. Evita H. Legowo, the first secretary of the National Biofuel Development Committee, said Wednesday that BP was looking to enter into a partnership with local agribusiness firm Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia to establish a biofuel plant. "With BP's cutting-edge technology, capital...
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