By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — The Norwegian state pension fund has cut ties with U.K. conglomerate Jardine Matheson (Jardines) due to concerns that the group’s gold mining activity in Indonesia could damage the only known habitat of the most threatened great ape in the world, the Tapanuli orangutan. Environmentalists have welcomed the decision, saying that it should serve as a wake-up call for Jardines to not expand the mine into the orangutan habitat and for other investors to stop financing companies that threaten the environment. On Feb. 29, the fund, the largest sovereign wealth fund in …