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Asia Feels The Heat: A Straits Times Special on Climate Change - Indonesia
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June 26, 2007
FLAMING FOREST
Smoke rises from a burning forest set afire for land-clearing in Minas, Riau province, Sumatera, Indonesia. Indonesia and other developing nations will demand money from rich countries to preserve their forests as part of any new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol. -- AP
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June 26, 2007
DEPLETING FOREST
The projection of forest cover 2005 on the island of Borneo. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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June 26, 2007
FACING REALITY
Devi Muri Asmarai, Straits Times Indonesia Correspondent is at a cleared forest which is making way for a palm oil plantation in central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. Indonesia had the fastest pace of deforestation in the world between 2000-2005, with an area of forest equivalent to 300 soccer pitches destroyed every hour. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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June 26, 2007
ACT OF IGNORANCE?
A signboard which state 'prohibiting burning of the plantation' is seen just outside a palm tree plantation in central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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June 26, 2007
TAKING OVER
A cleared forest, making way for a palm oil plantation in the Seruyan district of central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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June 26, 2007
BURNING TREES
A recently cleared forest, making way for a palm oil plantation in the Seruyan district of central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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June 26, 2007
THE AFTERMATH
A radio journalist reporting at the scene of a cleared forest which is making way for a palm oil plantation in central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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June 26, 2007
TIME FOR SOME LEISURE
A palm oil plantation worker seen here adjusting a tv satellite dish for better reception at the dormitory in central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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June 26, 2007
ILLEGAL ACT
An Indonesian villager cuts timber illegally at a forest in Indonesia's Aceh province. Greenpeace Southeast Asia recently said that a series of recent natural disasters in Indonesia, such as floods, landslides and droughts, were all linked to the 'unprecedented destruction' of forest cover. -- REUTERS
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June 26, 2007
AT WORK
A palm oil plantation worker spraying herbicide in central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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June 26, 2007
FOREST NO MORE
A palm oil plantation grows where a rainforest once stood in the Seruyan district of central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. -- REUTERS
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