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Palm oil deal undermines efforts resolve 25-year conflict in Sumatra
2013-10-16 00:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Local groups have called on the governor of Jambi province to cancel PT Asiatic Persadas permit after Wilmars sale of the company stalls IFC-mediated talks. Indigenous people in Indonesias Jambi province on the island of Sumatra have urged the local government to revoke the permit of PT Asiatic Persada, a palm oil company at the center of a more than two-decade-long land conflict. The call for government intervention comes just months after palm oil giant Wilmar, PT Asiatic Persadas former...
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