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A captive Sumatran tiger.

Volunteer radio station brings old media to remote Sumatran tiger habitat

Suryadi 18 Feb 2025
Fire fighters cooling burnt peatlands.

Floods set to worsen on Sumatra peat as landscape gives way

Suryadi 30 May 2024
Muhammad Erlangga, a student, washes his clothes with rainwater.

Rainwater reserves a tenuous lifeline for Sumatran community amid punishing dry season

Suryadi 11 Apr 2024
The effect is most dangerous in peatland areas like Riau province and southern Borneo, where out-of-control wildfires cause environmental destruction, excess deaths and economic losses in the billions of dollars.

Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

Suryadi 6 Mar 2024
The people of Tebing Tinggi Okura, Riau, protest against the clarity of 20% plasma plantations for them.

Sumatra community faces up to ‘plasma’ disappointment after palm oil policy shift

Suryadi 4 Mar 2024

Sumatran Indigenous seafarers run aground by overfishing and mangrove loss

Suryadi, Tonggo Simangunsong 23 Oct 2023
Batin Irasan, the village’s ketua adat, or spiritual leader.

Sumatra Indigenous community displaced by Samsung palm oil unit await justice

Suryadi 6 Jun 2023
Hutan Keramat Penyabungan

Encircled by plantations, a Sumatran Indigenous community abides changing times

Suryadi 22 Aug 2022
Sadikin

A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatra’s forest fire ‘hell’

Suryadi 1 Aug 2022

Small-island fishers petition Indonesian president to end coastal dredging

Suryadi 13 May 2022
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

Indonesia’s Riau province declares state of emergency ahead of fire season

Suryadi 5 Apr 2022
Forest illegally cleared for oil palm in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesian official busted over alleged bribe for palm oil permit

Hans Nicholas Jong, Suryadi 19 Nov 2021

Tiger on the highway: Sighting in Sumatra causes a stir, but is no surprise

Suryadi 13 Mar 2020

A Sumatran forest community braces for battle against a planned coal mine

Suryadi 29 Oct 2019

A newborn dies amid Indonesia fire crisis, as parents fear for their kids’ health

Suryadi 27 Sep 2019

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