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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End of funding dims hopes for a Sumatran forest targeted by palm oil growers

Elviza Diana, Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Nov 2018

With a feast of grubs, a tribe makes its case for forest stewardship

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Oct 2018

Palm oil executives arrested in bribery scandal in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong, Indra Nugraha 30 Oct 2018

Study warns of dire ecological, social fallout from Sumatran dam

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2018

Real-time plantation map aims to throttle deforestation in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Oct 2018

As climate change takes its toll, world leaders call for adaptation

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Oct 2018

Second environmental expert sued over testimony against palm oil firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2018

Dam project pushes threatened orangutans from forest to farms

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2018

Deforestation-linked palm oil still finding its way into top consumer brands: report

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Sep 2018

Activists say Indonesia dragging its heels on indigenous rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Sep 2018

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

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

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