Outrage over Indonesian plans for palm oil plantation

Activists and economists are outraged at Indonesian plans to cut a swathe through one of the world’s largest remaining areas of pristine rain forest to create a massive Chinese-funded palm oil plantation.

The remote stretch of land on Borneo island, home to countless species of rare birds, plants and mammals including the largest remaining wild orangutan population, could be decimated in what critics fear is a ruse to access timber.