The company's Miwah gold concession is in a ''protected forest'' and the company is lobbying for approval for an open-pit mine.
Ian Singleton, of the Sumatran Orang-utan Conservation Program, said the news was ''devastating''. Logging and palm oil concessions would want to operate in increasingly scarce lowland forest ''where the densities of tigers, orang-utans and elephants live'', he said.
''They've been arguing for protected forest to be made into production forest, which is obscene.''
Another environmental expert in Aceh, Graham Usher, warned of ''all sorts of environmental issues for communities downstream''.
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