Indonesia proposes rainforest nations climate group

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia has proposed that eight countries
home to some 80 percent of the world's tropical rainforests join
diplomatic ranks amid rising climate change concerns, a senior official
said Saturday.

"This is the initiative of our president, in order that they be able to
play an important role in the diplomacy of global warming," the
spokesman for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told AFP.
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