Basten Gokkon

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Basten is a Jakarta-based staff writer for Mongabay with interests in wildlife conservation, renewable energy, and Indigenous communities. Follow him on Twitter to see his latest thoughts via @bgokkon.

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Study: Marine governance in Indonesia pursues exploitation over sustainability

Basten Gokkon 23 Jun 2022

Indonesia issues long-delayed rules to protect migrant fishing workers

Basten Gokkon 14 Jun 2022

Ray care center: Indonesia’s Raja Ampat a key nursery for young reef mantas

Basten Gokkon 9 Jun 2022

Indonesia teams up with Germany on Sumatran rhino breeding efforts

Basten Gokkon 3 Jun 2022

Study casts doubt on sustainability of regulated blood python snakeskin trade

Basten Gokkon 2 Jun 2022

Easing of crackdown sees Vietnam boats encroach into Indonesian waters

Basten Gokkon, Yogi Eka Sahputra 20 May 2022

Fisher groups are the marine militia in Indonesia’s war on illegal fishing

Basten Gokkon 6 May 2022

A seagrass restoration project to preserve the past may also protect the future

Basten Gokkon 3 May 2022

Data show decline in Indonesian fish stocks amid push for higher productivity

Basten Gokkon 22 Apr 2022

International funding nowhere near enough for Indonesia to cut emissions: Study

Basten Gokkon 15 Apr 2022

It’s a girl: Super rare Sumatran rhino born in captive-breeding center

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2022

Indonesian ex-minister gets sentence cut for ‘good work’ fueled by corruption

Basten Gokkon 10 Mar 2022

Indonesia to tighten regulation of tuna harvest in bid for sustainability

Basten Gokkon 14 Feb 2022

With ‘sustainable’ cocoa, Mars pushes climate, market risks onto farmers

Basten Gokkon 26 Jan 2022

Foreign capital, blamed for depleting Indonesia’s fish stocks, is set to return

Basten Gokkon 11 Jan 2022

New shrews just dropped: Sulawesi yields up 14 freshly described species

Basten Gokkon 30 Dec 2021

Wary welcome for Indonesia’s ‘green port’ initiative to clean up shipping

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2021

Smoke rising from smoldering peatland in PT Raja Garuda Mas Sejati. Photo courtesy of Greenpeace Media Library.

Indonesian peat restoration has more benefits than it costs, study finds

Basten Gokkon 15 Dec 2021

Seized sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleonora) in East Java, Indonesia.

Indonesia ranks high on legal wildlife trade, but experts warn it masks illegal trade

Basten Gokkon 3 Dec 2021

Indonesia’s new plan for coal: It pollutes land and air, so why not the sea too?

Basten Gokkon 1 Dec 2021

Report: Orangutans and their habitat in Indonesia need full protection now

Basten Gokkon 19 Nov 2021

Sumatran rhinos in Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Work starts on new sanctuary for captive breeding of Sumatran rhinos

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2021

Stretch of Borneo’s Mahakam River eyed for protection to save Irrawaddy dolphins

Basten Gokkon 5 Nov 2021

Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say

Basten Gokkon 28 Oct 2021

Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Basten Gokkon 20 Oct 2021

For sustainable global fisheries, watchdogs focus on onshore beneficial owners

Basten Gokkon 17 Sep 2021

Indonesia lays out plan to rescue 15 lakes under pressure from human activity

Basten Gokkon 10 Sep 2021

Indonesia’s newly minted investigators to go after illegal fishing kingpins

Basten Gokkon 1 Sep 2021

To count Sumatran rhinos in the wild, look for their poop, study says

Basten Gokkon 24 Aug 2021

Climate change threatens to squeeze out Indonesia’s medicinal plants

Basten Gokkon 18 Aug 2021

Indonesia reports two new Javan rhino calves in the species’ last holdout

Basten Gokkon 17 Aug 2021

Indonesia assessing fish stock health to improve sustainable planning

Basten Gokkon 4 Aug 2021

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