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Runners’ woes at Asian Games highlight Jakarta’s air pollution problem

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2018

Fires and haze return to Indonesia as peat protection bid falls short

Aseanty Pahlevi, Hans Nicholas Jong, Zamzami 29 Aug 2018

Graft and government policy align to keep Indonesia burning coal

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Aug 2018

Indonesia’s land swap program puts communities, companies in a bind

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2018

Fight to protect the world’s most threatened great ape goes to court

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2018

Report finds APP and APRIL violating zero-deforestation policies with wood purchases from Djarum Group concessions in East Kalimantan

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2018
Dani man in Indonesian papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia’s ‘one-map’ database blasted for excluding indigenous lands

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Aug 2018

Forest fires threaten Asian Games as hotspots flare up in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong, Taufik Wijaya 10 Aug 2018

On an island in the sun, coal power is king over abundant solar

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2018
Indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

In battle over land rights, indigenous groups are fighting uphill

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jul 2018

Indonesia forest assessment casts an optimistic light on a complex issue

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jul 2018

Scientists urge Indonesian president to nix dam in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Jul 2018

RSPO fails to deliver on environmental and social sustainability, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Jul 2018

What’s worse than palm oil for the environment? Other vegetable oils, IUCN study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jul 2018

The world lost an area of tropical forest the size of Bangladesh in 2017

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2018

PepsiCo to probe deforestation in palm oil supplier’s Leuser Ecosystem concession

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2018

In Indonesia’s coal heartland, jaded voters weigh the ‘same old’ candidates

Tommy Apriando 25 Jun 2018

Indonesia to investigate death of journalist being held for defaming palm oil company

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Jun 2018

Puan, the world’s oldest Sumatran orangutan, dies at 62

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jun 2018

Facing resource crisis, Indonesia charts a ‘green development’ course

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Jun 2018

Activists blast EU for extending deadline to ban palm oil in biofuels

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jun 2018

In pursuit of traceability, palm oil giant tests GPS-based solution

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jun 2018

When palm oil meets politics, Indonesian farmers pay the price

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jun 2018

In export- and domestic-driven coal boon, Indonesia neglects renewables

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 May 2018

Typo derails landmark ruling against Indonesian palm oil firm guilty of burning peatland

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 May 2018

Indonesia enlists plantation companies to ensure haze-free Asian Games

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 May 2018

Sumatran habitat for tigers, orangutans gets a partial reprieve from development

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2018

Indonesian activists protest China-funded dam in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 May 2018

Failed rice fields may get new lease of life under Indonesian peat restoration project

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 May 2018

In Indonesia’s relentless infrastructure push, taint of corruption weighs on environment

Kamarudin 30 Apr 2018

Environmental defenders fear backlash as defendant sues expert over testimony

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Apr 2018
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Study puts a figure to hidden cost of community-company conflict in palm oil industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2018

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