Indonesia Forest-Clearing Ban Criticized as 'Government Propaganda’

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By MongabayAug 16, 2019, 10:48 am153 pts
By Hans Nicholas Jong Indonesia's president has made permanent a temporary moratorium on forest-clearing permits for plantations and logging. It's a policy the government says has proven effective in curtailing deforestation, but whose apparent gains have been criticized by environmental activists as mere…

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