Farmers in Bogor, a town 40 miles south of Jakarta, recently chased a group of golfers off the ninth green with hoes and axes and began planting vegetables.

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Carbon-emissions trading is becoming increasingly widespread within the industry, as is carbon off-setting, the latter involving passengers paying a voluntary surcharge to help finance the planting of trees or other green projects and so balance out the environmental damage caused by their journey.

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Farmers in Bogor, a town 65 kilometers south of Jakarta, recently chased a group of golfers off the ninth green with hoes and axes -- and began planting vegetables.

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Though based on Western organisations he had seen on television, Friends of Nature was less a lobbying outfit than a club, whose members would go tree-planting, camping and chorus-singing to spread the green message through the land.

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The Green Investment Bank, securing investment in low-carbon energy, and tree-planting were among the other government successes, he said.

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