Articles by Ridzki R. Sigit

AUKI, Indonesia — “We ladies have eyes on our feet,” Susanti Maryen says after a morning spent collecting saltwater clams and snails at a beach in Auki, an islet off…

arapan the rhino is among the last of his kind. His name – it means “hope” in Indonesian – is fitting: scientists are counting on the newly mature Sumatran rhinoceros…

Mongabay-Indonesia chief editor Ridzki R. Sigit argues that efforts to increase smallholder productivity among Indonesian smallholders are sorely needed. A mature oil palm plantation. Photo: Ridzki R. Sigit In a…

"We will protect our forests until the bitter end," the above text reads. A pair of documentaries about small-island indigenous peoples in Indonesia were screened in Oslo on Tuesday as…

A small island off Kendawangan in West Kalimantan's Ketapang Regency has lost a substantial amount of its tree cover over the past decade, according to Global Forest Watch. Intense exploitation…