Indonesian court fines palm oil giant for tax evasion
31 December 2012 -Jakarta - Channel News Asia. Indonesia’s Supreme Court ordered a major palm oil company to pay more than $390 million to the state for tax evasion, a judge said on Friday, in a case likely to set a precedent in the graft-ridden nation.
China, India should cut tariff on eco-certified palm oil to boost demand, says RSPO official
2 November 2012 - mongabay.com. China and India, the world's largest palm oil buyers, should reduce or eliminate an import tariff on eco-certified palm oil to boost demand for less-damaging production of the widely-used oilseed, said the President of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) during the body's tenth annual meeting in Singapore.
EPA Visit, Let’s Have A Look At Oil Palm Plantations in Indonesia
22 October 2012 - Aceh, Sumatra- endoftheicons. “If the world refuses oil palm, that’s not fair. I die hard there. I talked to Greenpeace, telling that there is no environmental destructing oil palm in Indonesia.” That was President Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY’s) statement by the end of June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as quoted by Investor Daily.
Large male orangutan rescued from threatened Trip peat swamp forests
15 October 2012- Medan - Endoftheicons.com. A large, fully adult male Sumatran Orangutan weighing around 90 kg was rescued yesterday (14/10/12) from an isolated forest fragment in the Tripa Peat Swamp Forests in the Nagan Raya District of Aceh Province, Sumatra, Indonesia, as illegal destruction of this unique ecosystem by rogue palm oil companies continues.
Governor Revokes Plantation Permit of PT Kalista Alam
15 September 2012- BANDA ACEH – The Governor of Aceh, dr Zaini Abdullah, immediately revokes the expansion permit for palm oil plantation of PT Kalista Alam covering 1,606 ha within the protection area of Tripa Peat Swamp in Nagan Raya.
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