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...hear it and see it all over Indonesia. People laugh at the suggestion that the government can or will improve their lot. It's not a happy laugh. It sounds more like resignation, a self-preserving suppression of hope. Politicians are considered corrupt until proven innocent, and if they are proven innocent, then the judge is probably corrupt. "They can change Presidents 10 times a day and my life will still be the same," Saharudin's brother had said. Sinar is disillusioned by the treatment of Malays in the area. In Java, grown men fight tears when they recall...
...environmental problem that was already coming to light 15 years ago ought, many argue, to have been addressed by now. Nine other nations, including Sweden, Germany, Vietnam and Indonesia, have banned or restricted CCA use, but federal and state regulators in the U.S. have taken a far more lax approach. In 1987, California passed a law requiring CCA-treated structures to be coated with paint or sealant every two years. The EPA set guidelines of its own, establishing a program under which woodmakers would provide a warning sheet with each package of treated lumber shipped to retailers. But critics charge...
...Although he is blind, Erik Weihenmayer has shown us he has a clearer vision of human potential than most sighted people." ANWAR SURAHMAN Bogor, Indonesia...
...Borneo, a decline of one-third in the same period. "Orangutan survival totally depends on the survival of the tropical forest," says Birute Galdikas. "It's as simple as that." Galdikas has been studying orangutans since the late 1960s, when she was dispatched to Indonesia by Louis Leakey, the world-renowned anthropologist who, along with his wife Mary, laid the foundation for modern theories of human origins. Leakey's two other "angels"?sent out at the same time?were Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. Goodall gained fame for her work with chimpanzees, detailing for the first time intercommunal warfare...
...Still optimistic in the face of the overwhelming odds stacked against the orangutans, Smits boasts that he has traveled to Washington with "a letter of authorization from the Indonesian government in my hand to set up a debt-for-nature swap," whereby a portion of Indonesia's foreign debt would be paid off in return for the creation of a huge protected area in central Borneo of some 700,000 hectares. Considering the utter chaos in Jakarta, it is, at the very least, a highly optimistic plan...