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“If you build a new city in a place that was well preserved before, it would inevitably be very destructive, no matter how you mitigate it,” said Brian Wong of Liber Research Community, an NGO focused on land issues.”Do we need to build it so big? Is it too ambitious?” he added.RETURN ON INVESTMENTThe Northern Metropolis project, announced five years ago, will eventually cover 30,000ha.Liber said at least 25 villages will be demolished to make way for it.Government departments told AFP they aim to integrate rural areas into the development project, but that Chan’s ancestral houses were not culturally significant…
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While more severe than recent years, the scale of Indonesia’s forest and land fires so…
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