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Quote: Deputy Minister for Environmental Damage and Climate Change Arief Yuwono said, "We have evidence" that companies "used local people to burn [forests] so they look as if they were just victims."; Malaysian o/p giants our "haze contributors/originators", Sime D, Kepong Berhad, Wilmar; Plantation companies have often ordered local people to burn forest or peatland near their concessions, hoping that the fire will spread onto their land. “Once the fire takes hold of their concessions, the companies shift the blame onto the local residents as if the fire had accidentally and spread to their land,” Balthasar was reported to have said by the Jakarta Post. – June 23, 2013. themalaysianinsider/malaysia/article/a-sharp-retort-from-indonesian-minister-to-malaysian-haze-worries
Posted on: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:32:39 +0000

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