Word: tanjung
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...Birute Galdikas is also trying to protect a larger area of forest in central Borneo, the much-abused Tanjung Puting National Park, the area she has been using for her research since the 1970s. In the past, Galdikas has often exploited her considerable fame to lobby Presidents and Prime Ministers. But with the collapse of authority in Jakarta, her focus has narrowed down to the communities living in and around what is left of the national park. They are both the source and solution to the problem. "These days it is impossible to distinguish the local community from illegal loggers...
...prohibition with tariffs, as required under the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Hosokawa may unveil the scheme as soon as next month, the deadline for the end of the current GATT talks. Apprehensive Japanese rice farmers last week furiously protested the arrival of the Tanjung Pinang, an Indonesian freighter carrying Thai rice shipments imported under a special one-time arrangement to make up for a bad harvest this summer. The protesters seemed all too aware that the Tanjung Pinang is a harbinger of imports still to come...