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Heavy machinery operates at the nickel mining site of PT Kawei Sejahtera Mining on Kawe Island, Raja Ampat.

Religion at a crossroads in Indonesia as Islamic groups bid to operate large-scale mines

Ramadani Saputra 25 Sep 2025
A transitional zebra shark in the Pacific Visions exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific in California.

Pet sharks have become cool, but is owning them ethical?

Hallie Lieberman 18 Sep 2025
Irrigation Dam 2 is just the latest in a string of dams being built atop protected forests within the Cardamom Mountains. Image supplied by source.

Cambodian irrigation dam construction threatens riverine communities in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 10 Sep 2025

Indonesia prioritizes gas over renewables to meet power demand surge

Jeff Hutton 9 Sep 2025
A Battambang leaf-toed gecko (Dixonius noctivagus).

New gecko species findings highlight threats to Cambodia’s limestone hills

Anton L. Delgado 4 Sep 2025

Thailand’s living floral heritage takes root in a park of rare and ancient trees

Ron Emmons 28 Aug 2025
A 1.72-meter (5.6-foot), 102-kilogram (225-pound) Mekong giant barb caught in Tonle Sap Lake in December, 2002.

Shrinking Mekong megafish underlines risks to the river, study finds

Anton L. Delgado 26 Aug 2025

Borneo killing linked to coal industry stays unsolved as Indonesia VP visits Dayak village

Muhibar Sobary Ardan 12 Aug 2025
A woman sits under a tree surrounded by dry waste in East Java.

Burning, burying and banning: Indonesia’s cities struggle to manage their garbage

Jeff Hutton 23 Jul 2025
Rukka shows the location of a former coal mine pit that flows into the Nangka River, which is now polluted.

Indonesian civil society urges probe after payout for mine recovery that never happened

Muhibar Sobary Ardan 10 Jul 2025
Workers are visible at the Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park's compound in Central Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia, Friday, June 7, 2024. Indonesia has been building out a vast industry for nickel. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Indonesia tests shows blood mercury rising at ground zero of world energy transition

Rabul Sawal 9 Jul 2025
Coal mine on a barge in Indonesia.

Indonesian utility PLN ‘kneecaps renewables’ with embrace of fossil fuels

Jeff Hutton 17 Jun 2025
Deslin Kalaeng with some yam.

On remote Indonesia karst outpost, Indigenous farmers fear the silence of the yams

Sarjan Lahay 9 Jun 2025
Marwati prepares a flashlight that is the main source of light in her house.

Indonesia new capital yet to spark electricity for low-income neighbors on Borneo

Niken D. Sitoningrum 5 Jun 2025
Legal counsel with the 27 residents who were arrested at the North Maluku Regional Police headquarters, May 19

Police in Indonesia’s Halmahera Island charge 11 farmers in latest nickel flashpoint

Rabul Sawal 3 Jun 2025
Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch), also known as the silvery gibbon

Silvery lining for Java’s endangered gibbon as Rahayu Oktaviani wins Whitley prize

Nuswantoro 27 May 2025
Sarmi, a resident of Gupit village, Nguter district, who is a representative of residents in a class action lawsuit against PT. RUM, which caused pollution. Her house was decorated with murals in solidarity as a sign of the residents' struggle.

Central Java villages take fast fashion to the cleaners at Indonesia’s Supreme Court

T. Handoko 26 May 2025
Community rangers guard elephants in Sera Conservancy, Northern Rangelands, Kenya.

Wildlife crime crackdown in jeopardy worldwide after US funding cuts

Carolyn Cowan, Philip Jacobson, Spoorthy Raman, Charles Mpaka, Hans Nicholas Jong, Gerald Flynn 22 May 2025
Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica

Indonesian pangolin trafficking prosecution reveals police involvement — and impunity

Ayat S. Karokaro 14 May 2025
A Dayak Ngaju tribe man tries to extinguish fire on burning peatland in Mantangai, Central Kalimantan.

In Borneo village, Indigenous Dayaks leave farming amid stricter fire rules

Rendy Tisna 24 Apr 2025
Farmers in the fields around a geothermal power plant in Central Java.

Church pressure spurs scrutiny of Indonesian geothermal projects

Ebed de Rosary 23 Apr 2025
Women in Timbul Seloko village, Central Java, help with the permeable dam project.

In an ancient Javanese sultanate, coastal women battle climate fallout

Irfan Maulana 16 Apr 2025
Solar panels in Bali, Indonesia.

As big money wavers, Southeast Asia’s green startups fight to stay powered

Jeff Hutton 15 Apr 2025
Maroon leaf monkeys (Presbytis rubicunda), a vulnerable species found in Borneo's forests.

‘Heart of Borneo’ dams raze Indigenous forests for Indonesia green energy drive

Abdallah Naem 14 Apr 2025
Sumatran tigers are critically endangered.

Snared, skinned, sold: Brutal March for Indonesia’s Sumatran tigers

Junaidi Hanafiah, Rahmi Carolina, Vinolia 10 Apr 2025

Pirates of the Pacific terrorize artisanal fishers on the Peruvian coast

Leandro Amaya 25 Mar 2025
The Sumatran belida fish is a protected species that is increasingly difficult to find in the wetlands of the Musi River, South Sumatra.

Sumatran culinary heritage at risk as environment changes around Silk Road river

Taufik Wijaya 24 Mar 2025
Suyono shows his biogas reactor surrounded by plants.

Chauffeur at Indonesia energy nonprofit drives uptake of biogas by Java farmers

Toto Sudiarjo 13 Mar 2025
More than half of the population of the Malalo Tigo Jurai Indigenous community depends on Lake Singkarak for livelihood.

Tragedy haunts community on shore of Sumatra’s largest solar farm

Jaka Hendra Baittri 12 Mar 2025
Coconut plantations on Gebe Island threatened by nickel mining.

Nickel miners dig up Indonesia’s Gebe Island despite Indigenous and legal opposition

Jaya Barends 11 Mar 2025
Trees fallen due to winds and fooding.

Indonesia families evicted for Jakarta PIK2 project flooded at relocation site

Irfan Maulana 7 Mar 2025
A fisherman at the Laa River, North Morowali, cleans clams before selling them.

‘Without us, no scrutiny’: Indonesia’s independent media count cost of US funding cuts

Jeff Hutton 6 Mar 2025

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