Hans Nicholas Jong

Hans Nicholas Jong

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Hans Nicholas Jong is an environmental journalist and staff writer at Mongabay, based in Jakarta. He covers environmental governance, climate policy, extractive industries, and land rights in Indonesia and beyond.

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Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022

With ban on palm oil exports, Indonesia reaps condemnation and praise

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2022

Coal miner Bayan sues Indonesian investment chief over loss of land

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2022

Mine pits expose the holes in Indonesia’s plan to relocate its capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Apr 2022
Oil palm kernels

Indonesian trade official, palm oil execs charged in cooking oil crisis

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2022

Plan to carve up Indonesian Papua rings alarm over fate of people and forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Apr 2022

Palm oil firm that cleared Papuan forest after losing its permit is still at it

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Apr 2022

For Indonesians, palm oil is everywhere but on supermarket shelves

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2022

Indonesian bill turns coal-derived fuels clean by ignoring true scale of emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Mar 2022

FSC-certified Moorim Paper linked to massive forest clearing in Indonesia’s Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Mar 2022

Deforestation for palm oil falls in Southeast Asia, but is it a trend or a blip?

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Mar 2022
A long-tailed macaque in Gunung Leuser National Park. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Probe finds palm oil firm illegally clearing forest in Sumatra wildlife haven

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Mar 2022
Intact rainforest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Study: Indonesia’s forest-clearing moratorium underdelivered — but so did donors

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2022

Indonesian program’s promise of food security backfires for local farmers

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Mar 2022
Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Fate of mine, plantation concessions revoked by Indonesia to be finalized soon

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Mar 2022

Palm oil and pulpwood the usual suspects as Papua deforestation persists

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Mar 2022

Forest clearing for crop program in Papua may unleash massive emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Mar 2022

When Indonesia retook land from developers, it gave them a solid case to sue

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2022

Crackdown on villagers highlights heavy hand of Indonesia’s ‘strategic’ projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Feb 2022

Indonesian government says no to reclassifying oil palm estates as forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Feb 2022

In Indonesia, a ‘devious’ policy silences opposition to mining, activists say

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Feb 2022

Indonesia on track with peatland restoration, but bogged down with mangroves

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Feb 2022

Raid against Sumatran official uncovers use of slave labor on oil palm farm

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jan 2022
New oil palm planting near a protected area in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Indonesia is clearing less forest for palm oil, but it’s still not sustainable, activists say

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jan 2022

Spurred by investor-friendly law, palm oil firms sue to get licenses back

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2022
Rainforest in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

As Indonesia retakes land from developers, conservation is an afterthought

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jan 2022

As blackouts loom, Indonesia’s energy crisis highlights its addiction to coal

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jan 2022
Natural forest (left) versus an oil palm plantation (right) in Indonesia. Photo credits: Rhett A. Butler

Proposal could redefine palm oil-driven deforestation as reforestation in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2022

Community control of forests hasn’t slowed deforestation, Indonesia study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jan 2022

Groups welcome decline in deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jan 2022

Indonesia’s new epicenter of forest fires shifts away from Sumatra and Borneo

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Dec 2021

‘Land mafia’ makes its mark in a Sumatran village’s fight against oil palm firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2021

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