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					<title>Pulp and paper giant APRIL&#8217;s supplier choices put FSC remedy process to the test</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/pulp-and-paper-giant-aprils-supplier-choices-put-fsc-remedy-process-to-the-test/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Jun 2026 04:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Certification, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forest Products, Forestry, Forests, Industry, International Trade, Land Use Change, Logging, Pulp And Paper, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Threats To Rainforests, Trade, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Pulp and paper giant APRIL&#8217;s recent decision to lower its deforestation commitments and source wood from two companies associated with extensive recent forest loss has created a new challenge for its relationship with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), with environmental groups urging the world&#8217;s leading forestry certifier to terminate the already suspended reassociation [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Pulp and paper giant APRIL&#8217;s recent decision to lower its deforestation commitments and source wood from two companies associated with extensive recent forest loss has created a new challenge for its relationship with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), with environmental groups urging the world&#8217;s leading forestry certifier to terminate the already suspended reassociation process. In late May, APRIL announced it was reviewing its decade-old Sustainable Forest Management Policy (SFMP) 2.0 and lowering its deforestation cutoff date from 2015 to Dec. 31, 2020. The move allows Indonesia&#8217;s second-largest pulp and paper producer to source wood from PT Industrial Forest Plantation (IFP) and PT Mayawana Persada (Mayawana), two companies that have experienced some of the country&#8217;s largest recent forest losses. APRIL said the decision was necessary to address fibre shortages after the Indonesian government revoked the operating permits of four of its long-term suppliers earlier this year, affecting around 15% of its wood supply in Riau Province. According to data from the forest-monitoring platform Nusantara Atlas, together, IFP and Mayawana lost nearly 80,000 hectares (197,684 acres) of forest­­­­­ — an area almost half the size of London — between 2015 and 2024, including more than 54,000 hectares (133,436 acres) after 2020. This is more than any other forestry companies in Indonesia. Deforestation in the concession of PT Mayawana Persada, September 2020–April 2024 © Earthsight. Image source: Sentinel-2 via Copernicus Browser Environmental groups have criticized the move, arguing that it weakens a longstanding no-deforestation safeguard and sends a message that companies&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/pulp-and-paper-giant-aprils-supplier-choices-put-fsc-remedy-process-to-the-test/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Pulp and paper giant APRIL adds major deforesters as suppliers after revising sustainability policy</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/pulp-and-paper-giant-april-adds-major-deforesters-as-suppliers-after-revising-sustainability-policy/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Jun 2026 15:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Global, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and West Kalimantan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Business, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, EUDR, Forest Products, Forestry, Forests, Great Apes, Habitat Loss, Law, Orangutans, Primates, Pulp And Paper, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Supply Chain, Timber, timber trade, Trade, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Pulp and paper giant APRIL made recent changes that are concerning to environmental groups. These changes include suspending and reviewing its flagship sustainability policy, lowering its deforestation commitments, and sourcing wood from two companies responsible for some of Indonesia&#8217;s largest recent forest losses. The company, part of the Singapore-headquartered Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Pulp and paper giant APRIL made recent changes that are concerning to environmental groups. These changes include suspending and reviewing its flagship sustainability policy, lowering its deforestation commitments, and sourcing wood from two companies responsible for some of Indonesia&#8217;s largest recent forest losses. The company, part of the Singapore-headquartered Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) group, the world’s largest manufacturer of viscose rayon, said the changes are needed to align its policies with international standards and secure fiber supplies following the loss of several long-term suppliers. Environmental groups, however, said the move weakens a key safeguard that APRIL has long cited as evidence of its no-deforestation commitments. The controversy centers on APRIL&#8217;s decision to add Indonesian concessions PT Industrial Forest Plantation (IFP) and PT Mayawana Persada (Mayawana) as its wood suppliers, integral to manufacturing viscose. Both companies, based on Kalimantan, have experienced extensive forest loss in recent years and have been repeatedly criticized by environmental groups. Previously, RGE and its subsidiaries, including APRIL, pledged not to source wood from plantations linked with deforestation since 2015. It is a pledge the company had reportedly broken. Its new corporate promise lowers the cutoff date to 2020, drawing sharp criticism from environmental groups. APRIL said IFP began delivering wood fiber to the company in May 2026. However, vessel-tracking data reviewed by Mongabay indicated that at least five barges carrying timber from the vicinity of IFP&#8217;s operations in Central Kalimantan were tracked traveling to Futong Port in Riau between mid-March and mid-April. Futong serves&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/pulp-and-paper-giant-april-adds-major-deforesters-as-suppliers-after-revising-sustainability-policy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-321412</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Birutė Galdikas, primatologist who spent a lifetime studying &#038; defending orangutans, has died at 79</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/birute-galdikas-primatologist-who-spent-a-lifetime-studying-defending-orangutans-has-died-at-79/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Mar 2026 03:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Welfare, Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Great Apes, Habitat Loss, Mammals, Obituary, Orangutans, Primates, Reintroductions, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the early 1970s, orangutans occupied an ambiguous place in science. They were known to exist, of course, but remained poorly understood, rarely observed, and difficult to study in the wild. Their forest habitat in Borneo and Sumatra was still vast, though already beginning to change. Logging roads were extending into areas that had long [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the early 1970s, orangutans occupied an ambiguous place in science. They were known to exist, of course, but remained poorly understood, rarely observed, and difficult to study in the wild. Their forest habitat in Borneo and Sumatra was still vast, though already beginning to change. Logging roads were extending into areas that had long resisted access. The outlines of a larger problem were visible, even if its scale was not yet clear. At the same time, a small group of researchers was beginning to reshape how great apes were studied. Fieldwork, rather than captivity, became the preferred approach. Long-term observation replaced short expeditions. The premise was simple but demanding: to understand animals that were hard to find, one had to remain in place long enough for them to become familiar with human presence. Into this setting came a young graduate student with an interest in human evolution and a determination to study orangutans in their natural habitat, despite doubts that such work was feasible. With limited funding and little infrastructure, she established a research station in a remote peat swamp in Indonesian Borneo in 1971. Over time, that station would become one of the longest-running field sites for any wild mammal. Galdikas in the field. Photo courtesy of Orangutan Foundation International (OFI). Birutė Galdikas spent the next five decades working from that base. Her early years were marked less by discovery than by persistence. Finding orangutans could take weeks. Observing them required learning to move through dense forest and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/birute-galdikas-primatologist-who-spent-a-lifetime-studying-defending-orangutans-has-died-at-79/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Green labeler PEFC under fire for certifying Indonesian firm clearing orangutan habitat</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/green-labeler-pefc-under-fire-for-certifying-indonesian-firm-clearing-orangutan-habitat/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Dec 2025 17:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Certification, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forests, International Trade, Rainforests, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Sustainable Forest Management, Threats To Rainforests, Trade, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A major global forestry certification body is under scrutiny for endorsing one of Indonesia’s largest recent deforesters, raising concerns that consumers may be misled about the origins of the wood products they buy. In November, the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) approved the certification of Indonesian timber firm PT Industrial [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A major global forestry certification body is under scrutiny for endorsing one of Indonesia’s largest recent deforesters, raising concerns that consumers may be misled about the origins of the wood products they buy. In November, the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) approved the certification of Indonesian timber firm PT Industrial Forest Plantation (IFP). The label allows the company to market its pulpwood as “sustainable,” even though investigative group Earthsight says IFP has in recent years become Indonesia’s second-largest deforester. Between 2016 and 2022, IFP cleared nearly 22,000 hectares (about 54,000 acres) of natural forest in central Borneo, an area roughly the size of Amsterdam, to establish its plantations. Since 2022, the company has cleared more forest each year than almost any other operator in Indonesia’s industrial plantation sector. The concession lies in a landscape recognized as a key stronghold for critically endangered Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), with roughly half the licensed area estimated to be orangutan habitat. IFP has refuted Earthsight’s findings, saying all clearing and planting was carried out under work plans approved by Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry. It also said it stopped logging natural forest at the end of 2023. But analysis by Indonesian NGO Auriga Nusantara shows deforestation continued well into 2024, with more than 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres) of forest loss recorded in the concession. That made IFP the fourth-largest deforester among plantation permit holders that year. PEFC told Earthsight it found no clear evidence of procedural error in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/green-labeler-pefc-under-fire-for-certifying-indonesian-firm-clearing-orangutan-habitat/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-311360</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indigenous Dayak resist new southern Borneo national park amid global protection deficit</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/indigenous-dayak-resist-new-southern-borneo-national-park-amid-global-protection-deficit/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Nov 2025 10:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rendy TisnaRiyad Dafhi Rizki]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conflict, Conservation, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Use Change, National Parks, Protests, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[BANJARMASIN, Indonesia — A growing coalition of Indigenous communities, students and civil society organizations from Borneo is rallying against fast-moving plans to establish a new national park in the remote Meratus mountain range. “The Meratus forest is our mother,” said Anang Suriani, a spokesperson for the Dayak Indigenous community from Kambiayin, a village in South [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BANJARMASIN, Indonesia — A growing coalition of Indigenous communities, students and civil society organizations from Borneo is rallying against fast-moving plans to establish a new national park in the remote Meratus mountain range. “The Meratus forest is our mother,” said Anang Suriani, a spokesperson for the Dayak Indigenous community from Kambiayin, a village in South Kalimantan province that falls within the borders of the proposed Meratus Mountains National Park. “It&#8217;s a place where we live, farm, forage, practice tradition and obtain medicine,” he added. “Making it a national park is tantamount to destroying us.” The government plans to zone Meratus Mountains National Park over 119,779 hectares (295,980 acres), an area twice the size of the city of Chicago, or more than 50% larger than the country of Singapore. Since Indonesia’s independence in 1945, successive governments have established 57 national parks across the country, the largest of which is Lorentz National Park in Papua, at around 2.5 million hectares (6.2 million acres), an area 30 times larger than Singapore. The smallest, Kelimutu National Park on Flores island, is slightly smaller than the city state. South Kalimantan is one of only four of the 38 provinces across Indonesia that doesn’t have a national park. However, in April this year, UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural office, designated the Meratus Mountains as a Global Geopark for its “fascinating geological record of complex tectonic evolution beginning in the Jurassic period, 201 to 145 million years ago.” Officials in Indonesia unveiled the national park draft in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/indigenous-dayak-resist-new-southern-borneo-national-park-amid-global-protection-deficit/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia court clears wildfire scientists in case brought by palm oil company</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/indonesia-court-clears-wildfire-scientists-in-case-brought-by-palm-oil-company/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Oct 2025 07:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rendy Tisna]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Fires, Forests, Law, Law Enforcement, Palm Oil, Science, and Social Justice]]>
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							<![CDATA[A lower court in the Jakarta suburb of Bogor ruled in October in favor of environmental scientists Bambang Hero Saharjo and Basuki Wasis, dismissing a lawsuit brought by Borneo plantation firm PT Kalimantan Lestari Mandiri over a wildfire more than seven years ago. “Hopefully this will set a good precedent to protect environmental defenders and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A lower court in the Jakarta suburb of Bogor ruled in October in favor of environmental scientists Bambang Hero Saharjo and Basuki Wasis, dismissing a lawsuit brought by Borneo plantation firm PT Kalimantan Lestari Mandiri over a wildfire more than seven years ago. “Hopefully this will set a good precedent to protect environmental defenders and activists and enable the effort to rescue the deteriorating environment without the threat of pressure and lawsuits,” Bambang told Mongabay Indonesia in response to the ruling. Bambang and Basuki are professors at Bogor Institute of Agriculture, Indonesia’s premier forestry university. The government has frequently called on both academics to provide testimony as expert witnesses in wildfires cases brought by the forestry ministry against plantation companies. In 2018, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry brought a case against PT Kalimantan Lestari Mandiri, which was heard in the Kapuas district court in Central Kalimantan province. The government alleged the company was culpable for a fire covering 833 hectares (2,058 acres) using the principle of “strict liability,” which holds companies ultimately responsible for any damage. In court, the government relied on peatland samples measured by Bambang, who is head of the wildfires laboratory at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture, from several sites on the PT Kalimantan Lestari Mandiri concession taken during November 2018. The court judgment noted testimony that the area burned was approximately 833 hectares (2,058 acres), which was both Bambang’s conclusion and “in accordance with the results of measurements by the Central Kalimantan Provincial Plantation Service.”&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/indonesia-court-clears-wildfire-scientists-in-case-brought-by-palm-oil-company/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-307872</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Study maps rare Borneo forests with unique habitats &#038; urgent need for protection</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/study-maps-rare-borneo-forests-with-unique-habitats-urgent-need-for-protection/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Aug 2025 02:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Fires, Forests, Gold Mining, Mining, Palm Oil, Peatlands, Plantations, Protected Areas, Research, and Restoration]]>
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							<![CDATA[In their latest study, a group of researchers from Indonesia, the U.K., and the U.S. find that heath forests (locally known as kerangas) span 16,586 square kilometers (6,400 square miles) — almost the size of Hawaii’s land area — across Kalimantan. This figure suggests about a 33% loss of forest cover since a 1996 estimate [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In their latest study, a group of researchers from Indonesia, the U.K., and the U.S. find that heath forests (locally known as kerangas) span 16,586 square kilometers (6,400 square miles) — almost the size of Hawaii’s land area — across Kalimantan. This figure suggests about a 33% loss of forest cover since a 1996 estimate of 24,750 km² (9,550 mi²), they write in a paper published July 16 in Cambridge University Press’ Journal of Tropical Ecology. The authors say their research offered a baseline by clarifying the mosaic structure of lowland kerangas and highlighting their distinct role as a unique habitat within the landscape, given limited research on these forests and the resulting gaps in understanding the effects of human pressures and conservation measures. “Research into kerangas forest coverage in Kalimantan was inspired by our discovery of the Rungan forest landscape’s fascinating forest and exceptional conservation value,” Namrata Biligeri Anirudh, a Ph.D. ecologist from the University of Indonesia who is the paper’s lead author, told Mongabay in an email interview. A new study mapping lowland heath forests (kerangas) in Indonesian Borneo reveals major changes in their extent and limited formal protection. Image courtesy of Bernat Ripoll Capilla. Anirudh noted that the landscape was nestled between the Rungan and Kahayan rivers in Central Kalimantan, serving as home to an extraordinary variety of endangered plants and animals, thanks to its rare mix of heath forests on sandy soils, swamps, lowland forests and abundant Borneo ironwood (Eusideroxylon zwageri). “The fact that such a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/study-maps-rare-borneo-forests-with-unique-habitats-urgent-need-for-protection/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-304113</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indonesian palm oil company sues experts who helped secure $18m pollution ruling</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/indonesian-palm-oil-company-sues-experts-who-helped-secure-18m-pollution-ruling/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Jul 2025 11:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Air Pollution, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Fires, Forests, Law, Law Enforcement, Palm Oil, Peatlands, Plantations, Pollution, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Two of Indonesia’s most prominent environmental experts are facing a lawsuit that activists say is part of a wider trend of silencing scientists who testify against environmental violators. Bambang Hero Saharjo and Basuki Wasis, both veteran forensics experts whose testimonies have helped convict major polluters, are being sued by PT Kalimantan Lestari Mandiri [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Two of Indonesia’s most prominent environmental experts are facing a lawsuit that activists say is part of a wider trend of silencing scientists who testify against environmental violators. Bambang Hero Saharjo and Basuki Wasis, both veteran forensics experts whose testimonies have helped convict major polluters, are being sued by PT Kalimantan Lestari Mandiri (KLM), a palm oil company they helped hold accountable for massive fires in Central Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo. Their expert testimony and damage assessments have proved crucial in securing rulings against environmental offenders. By calculating the cost of ecological destruction, they help judges assign real value to environmental losses — evidence often used to prove corporate liability or even corruption. Bambang has testified as an expert in more than 500 environmental destruction cases, and is currently assisting in more than 15 cases — from fires that spew toxic haze, to mining-caused floods and landslides. The KLM case stems from 2018, when the Indonesian government sued the company for fires that burned 511 hectares (1,263 acres) of its concession in Central Kalimantan. Those fires contributed to the toxic haze crisis that routinely blankets parts of Indonesia and neighboring countries during the dry season, causing widespread respiratory illness, school closures and flight cancellations. Peatland fires in particular release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, making them a major driver of greenhouse gas emissions and regional air pollution. A court found KLM liable for the fires and ordered it to pay 89 billion&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/indonesian-palm-oil-company-sues-experts-who-helped-secure-18m-pollution-ruling/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-303123</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Borneo village, Indigenous Dayaks leave farming amid stricter fire rules</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/in-borneo-village-indigenous-dayaks-leave-farming-amid-stricter-fire-rules/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/in-borneo-village-indigenous-dayaks-leave-farming-amid-stricter-fire-rules/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>24 Apr 2025 03:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rendy Tisna]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Conflict, Culture, Environment, Environmental Law, Farming, Fires, Food, food security, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Law, Law Enforcement, Regulations, Traditional Knowledge, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[MANTANGAI, Indonesia — The last time Remie recalled a good harvest season here in Central Kalimantan province was in 2018, when 20-liter bags of rice seed were piled against the walls. “The house was full back then,” Remie told Mongabay Indonesia. “We packed almost 100 bags of seeds in here.” Today it is increasingly difficult [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MANTANGAI, Indonesia — The last time Remie recalled a good harvest season here in Central Kalimantan province was in 2018, when 20-liter bags of rice seed were piled against the walls. “The house was full back then,” Remie told Mongabay Indonesia. “We packed almost 100 bags of seeds in here.” Today it is increasingly difficult for Indigenous Dayak farmers like Remie to procure seeds around Mantangai subdistrict, near the banks of the Kapuas River. The price for a 20-l (5.3-gallon) sack of rice seed has bulged to around 300,000 rupiah ($18). Instead of growing food for his family, Remie now earns a small cash wage from rummaging around the landscape collecting galam, a durable wood from the cajuput tree (Melaleuca cajuputi) used in basic construction. The 46-year-old says the blame lies mainly with an environmental and public health policy introduced a decade ago by then-President Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi. Between May and October in 2015, an unrelenting dry season fueled by the El Niño climate pattern led to fires on 2.6 million hectares (6.4 million acres) of peatlands and mineral soils. One study estimated that the resulting air pollution blanketing Borneo and Sumatra Islands would lead to 100,000 premature deaths. In the embers of that 2015 Southeast Asia wildfire crisis, Jokowi drew up Presidential Instruction No. 11 to harden existing rules against the burning of biomass. The policy ignited a police crackdown against smallholder farmers starting fires to clear forests for planting. However, a large number of farmers were also detained&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/in-borneo-village-indigenous-dayaks-leave-farming-amid-stricter-fire-rules/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-297993</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indonesia’s peatlands face growing flood risks amid widespread degradation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/indonesias-peatlands-face-growing-flood-risks-amid-widespread-degradation/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/indonesias-peatlands-face-growing-flood-risks-amid-widespread-degradation/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>07 Apr 2025 11:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Papua, South Kalimantan, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Disasters, Ecosystems, Environment, Fires, Flooding, Forests, Landscape Restoration, Peatlands, Restoration, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Nearly half of Indonesia’s peatlands are vulnerable to flooding due to degradation caused by unchecked exploitation, with 6 million hectares (15 million acres) — an area twice the size of Belgium — classified as highly vulnerable, according to a new report. The report, by peatland watchdog Pantau Gambut, examined three peatland-rich regions of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Nearly half of Indonesia’s peatlands are vulnerable to flooding due to degradation caused by unchecked exploitation, with 6 million hectares (15 million acres) — an area twice the size of Belgium — classified as highly vulnerable, according to a new report. The report, by peatland watchdog Pantau Gambut, examined three peatland-rich regions of Indonesia: the island of Sumatra; the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, known as Kalimantan; and the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea, known as Papua. Each region has distinct topographical and climate characteristics. Kalimantan features lowland coastal peat with high rainfall. Sumatra has both inland and coastal peatlands. Papua is the most complex, with extremely high rainfall and peatlands spanning inland, coastal and mountainous areas. The report found that at least 25% of Indonesia&#8217;s peatlands are highly vulnerable to flooding, with another 18% classified as moderately vulnerable. This means 43% of the country’s 24 million hectares (59 million acres) of peatlands are at risk, while only 57% have low vulnerability. Peatlands, as part of wetland ecosystems, are naturally waterlogged and capable of absorbing far more water than mineral soils. Peat can retain 100-1,300% of its dry weight in water, while mineral soils typically absorb only 20-30%. However, once degraded, peatlands lose their ability to retain water effectively. This phenomenon, known as irreversible drying, turns standing water into uncontrolled runoff, leading to flooding. “The floods occurring are not a natural cycle commonly found in peatland ecosystems,” said Wahyu Perdana, advocacy and campaign&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/indonesias-peatlands-face-growing-flood-risks-amid-widespread-degradation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Sustainable’ palm oil firms continue illegal peatland clearing despite permit revocation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/sustainable-palm-oil-firms-continue-illegal-peatland-clearing-despite-permit-revocation/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Mar 2025 02:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Business, Carbon Emissions, Certification, Climate, Climate Change, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deforestation, Environment, Fires, Forests, International Trade, Law, Law Enforcement, Palm Oil, Peatlands, Plantations, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Sustainability, Threats To Rainforests, Trade, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Palm oil companies in Indonesia continue to operate on protected peatlands and clear forests, despite having their forestry permits revoked and being certified as sustainable, a new report alleges. Local environmental NGOs Pantau Gambut and Kaoem Telapak investigated three companies operating in Central Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo: PT Agrindo Green [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Palm oil companies in Indonesia continue to operate on protected peatlands and clear forests, despite having their forestry permits revoked and being certified as sustainable, a new report alleges. Local environmental NGOs Pantau Gambut and Kaoem Telapak investigated three companies operating in Central Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo: PT Agrindo Green Lestari (AGL), PT Citra Agro Abadi (CAA) and PT Bangun Cipta Mitra Perkasa (PT BCMP). Their findings implicate all three in illegal peatland conversion, deforestation and recurring fires. Two of the three companies, AGL and CAA, are subsidiaries of the PT Ciliandry Anky Abadi, a privately held plantation company with a 120,000-hectare (300,000-acre) land bank in Central Kalimantan. Ciliandry Anky Abadi itself was identified as the single biggest deforesting palm oil company in Indonesia in 2023. The AGL and CAA concessions cover a combined 18,224 hectares (45,032 acres) in Pulang Pisau district, overlapping with protected peatlands and high conservation value (HCV) areas. Around 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres) have been identified as critical orangutan habitat. Satellite imagery from 2015 to 2023 reveals that most of the protected peatlands within CAA’s concessions have been converted into oil palm plantations, with planting beginning in 2022. As of 2023, 2,753 hectares (6,803 acres) of protected peat ecosystems had been cleared for planting — an area the size of 55,000 basketball courts. These peatlands have protected status because of their deep peat layers that hold vast quantities of carbon, and also because of their high conservation value. But converting peatlands&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/sustainable-palm-oil-firms-continue-illegal-peatland-clearing-despite-permit-revocation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-296182</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indigenous Dayak community makes strides on Borneo toward forest autonomy</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/indigenous-dayak-community-makes-strides-on-borneo-toward-forest-autonomy/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/indigenous-dayak-community-makes-strides-on-borneo-toward-forest-autonomy/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>26 Feb 2025 04:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aseanty Pahlevi]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Use Change, Rainforests, Rivers, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sustainable Forest Management, Traditional Knowledge, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[MEKAR RAYA, Indonesia — Yulius Yogi kneels under the forest canopy here on the island of Borneo, surveying land he plans to reclaim for his Dayak Simpan Indigenous community. “Our ancestors safeguarded [the forest], now it’s our responsibility to look after it,” Yulius, 35, told Mongabay Indonesia on the outskirts of Mekar Raya village, in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MEKAR RAYA, Indonesia — Yulius Yogi kneels under the forest canopy here on the island of Borneo, surveying land he plans to reclaim for his Dayak Simpan Indigenous community. “Our ancestors safeguarded [the forest], now it’s our responsibility to look after it,” Yulius, 35, told Mongabay Indonesia on the outskirts of Mekar Raya village, in Ketapang district, West Kalimantan province. As leader of the local forest management institute, a village-level institution in Indonesia’s heavily decentralized political framework, Yulius is responsible for drafting a forest management proposal to the central government in Jakarta. That application requires merging centuries-old customary traditions, regulated by Dayak elders, with the rules of the modern state introduced after Indonesia declared independence in 1945. Here in Mekar Raya, a successful petition could entail the handover of up to 2,000 hectares (5,000 acres) of forest upland, bisected by rivers the Dayak consider protected by a higher authority. In August last year, then-forestry minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said Indonesia’s community forestry program had so far transferred more than 8 million hectares (20 million acres) for local leases (hutan desa), and in some cases Indigenous control (hutan adat), comparable to a sort of communal freehold. These two categories of rural devolution had reached 1.4 million families by August last year, the minister said. In May 2020, the forestry ministry authorized a 9,480-hectare (23,426-acre) hutan adat forest to the Dayak Iban community in the north of Indonesian Borneo. That was the largest award to an Indigenous community at the time, spurring&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/indigenous-dayak-community-makes-strides-on-borneo-toward-forest-autonomy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Using regenerative agriculture to heal the land and help communities: Q&#038;A with Kaleka founder Silvia Irawan</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/using-regenerative-agriculture-to-heal-the-land-and-help-communities-qa-with-kaleka-founder-silvia-irawan/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Nov 2024 23:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Louise Hunt]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agroforestry, Environment, Forests, Green, Habitat Loss, Indigenous Peoples, Industrial Agriculture, Interviews, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforests, Regenerative production landscapes, Sustainability, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Seruyan, a regency in Indonesia&#8217;s Central Kalimantan province, independent smallholders are trialing regenerative agriculture strategies in their oil palm farms in an effort to shift away from environmentally degrading monoculture practices and restore ecosystems. The intervention, run by non-profit research organization Kaleka (formerly Yayasan Inobu), has come out of a wider jurisdictional approach pilot [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Seruyan, a regency in Indonesia&#8217;s Central Kalimantan province, independent smallholders are trialing regenerative agriculture strategies in their oil palm farms in an effort to shift away from environmentally degrading monoculture practices and restore ecosystems. The intervention, run by non-profit research organization Kaleka (formerly Yayasan Inobu), has come out of a wider jurisdictional approach pilot that is aiming to bring all palm oil producers in the district, with over 320,000 hectares of plantations, into compliance with the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification scheme. One of the key targets of Seruyan’s Jurisdictional Approach is to encourage the certification and sale of Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) by the district’s smallholders, which include both Indigenous Dayak people and transmigrant settlers from different provinces. However, as Kaleka’s deep village-level work is finding, there are complex challenges that need to be overcome if all independent smallholders are to be convinced to participate in this process. These issues include demands on oil palm companies to fulfil their obligations to provide community plantations for local smallholders, and the growing number of Indigenous farmers wanting to cultivate their ancestral land for oil palm as a stable source of income. While communities are standing up for their land rights, it could also mean losing more forest cover, and potentially infringing RSPO’s no-deforestation rules, which were tightened in 2018 to include secondary forest. Through regenerative agriculture trials, Kaleka is trying to find ways for smallholders to cultivate oil palm more sustainably, without reducing their incomes. To&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/using-regenerative-agriculture-to-heal-the-land-and-help-communities-qa-with-kaleka-founder-silvia-irawan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Borneo’s Dayak adapt Indigenous forestry to modern peat management</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/borneos-dayak-adapt-indigenous-forestry-to-modern-peat-management/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Jun 2024 02:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Titik Kartitiani]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conflict, Culture, Environment, Fires, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Law, Peatlands, Sustainable Forest Management, Traditional Knowledge, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[PULANG PISAU, Indonesia — Bandi paddled through the black swamp, passing alongside banks of high brush outside Kalawa village here in the south of Borneo Island. The narrow canoe, known here as a ces, arrowed through the water, leaving a low ripple in its wake. “Since there’s been community forestry here, we can now protect [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PULANG PISAU, Indonesia — Bandi paddled through the black swamp, passing alongside banks of high brush outside Kalawa village here in the south of Borneo Island. The narrow canoe, known here as a ces, arrowed through the water, leaving a low ripple in its wake. “Since there’s been community forestry here, we can now protect the forest,” Bandi said as he traversed the peatland. “We look after the forests surrounding our village — they don’t burn.” A national drive to convert some 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of peatland into rice fields by then-president Suharto clear-cut a vast tract of Bornean rainforest in the 1990s, which many Indigenous Dayak considered to be a violation of customary rules. The project became a notorious environmental catastrophe. Much of the land alongside the Sebangau, Kahayan, Kapuas, Kapus Murung and Barito rivers was destroyed by fire. The aftermath left the landscape prone to floods in monsoon seasons and wildfires during droughts, seasonal patterns now aggravated by climate change. A decade ago the entire landscape was also ablaze here in Pulang Pisau, a district in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province. In mid-2015, toxic wildfire smoke seeped under doors of Dayak longhouses, through the cracks in the timber frame, and past the blood-brain barrier of the people sheltering inside. The haze hung over most of Borneo for months as the fires spread across the peat. Around 2.6 million hectares (6.4 million acres) burned across the country during that year’s dry season. The catastrophe will have likely&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/borneos-dayak-adapt-indigenous-forestry-to-modern-peat-management/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Pro-business parties accused of holding back Indonesia’s Indigenous rights bill</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/pro-business-parties-accused-of-holding-back-indonesias-indigenous-rights-bill/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/pro-business-parties-accused-of-holding-back-indonesias-indigenous-rights-bill/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>07 May 2024 13:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Business, Conflict, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Environment, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Law, Palm Oil, Politics, and Social Conflict]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Fear among Indonesia’s ruling class of losing control of natural resources to Indigenous people is why the country’s parliament continues to delay passing a long-awaited bill on Indigenous rights, according to activists. The bill was proposed in 2012 and has been placed on parliament’s list of national priority legislation every year since 2014, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Fear among Indonesia’s ruling class of losing control of natural resources to Indigenous people is why the country’s parliament continues to delay passing a long-awaited bill on Indigenous rights, according to activists. The bill was proposed in 2012 and has been placed on parliament’s list of national priority legislation every year since 2014, but never passed since. A lawmaker on the legislation committee discussing the bill now says that’s because it keeps being blocked by two of the biggest parties in parliament. Luluk Nur Hamidah said her committee had as early as 2020 submitted a final draft of the bill to the parliamentary speaker, Puan Maharani, but that the latter had since done nothing about it. As speaker, Puan — a member of the PDI-P, the biggest party in parliament and the main party in the ruling coalition — was supposed to bring the bill to a plenary session of parliament for a vote. If passed, parliament would then notify the administration of President Joko Widodo, also a PDI-P member, which would have an opportunity to identify specific problems to be resolved in the draft legislation. This list of problems is known as a “problem inventory list,” or DIM by its Indonesian acronym. The next step would be for parliament to discuss the DIM with the government to resolve any outstanding issues, before passing the bill into law. But none of that has happened, with Puan refusing to move the bill from committee level to the wider plenary,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/pro-business-parties-accused-of-holding-back-indonesias-indigenous-rights-bill/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/2023-fires-increase-fivefold-in-indonesia-amid-el-nino/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Jan 2024 05:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian Palm Oil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Air Pollution, Business, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, El Nino, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fires, Forest Destruction, Forests, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Law, Law Enforcement, Palm Oil, Peatlands, Plantations, Rainforests, Savannas, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Fires razed nearly 1 million hectares (2.47 million acres) of lands and forests in Indonesia in 2023, as the country suffered from unusually scorching weather due to El Niño and burning for new plantations. Data from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry show that as many as 994,313.18 hectares — an area 15 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Fires razed nearly 1 million hectares (2.47 million acres) of lands and forests in Indonesia in 2023, as the country suffered from unusually scorching weather due to El Niño and burning for new plantations. Data from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry show that as many as 994,313.18 hectares — an area 15 times the size of Jakarta — burned from January to October 2023. This means the 2023 fire season is the worst since 2019, when fires burned 1.65 million hectares (4.07 million acres). The size of the 2023 fires represents a fivefold increase from the 204,894 hectares (506,300 acres) of burned lands in 2022. But it still represents a 30.80% decline compared with the same period in 2019, when the El Niño weather phenomenon also brought a prolonged dry season. “We compared 2023 with 2019 because the El Niño is relatively the same. 2023 was even drier than 2019. But Alhamdulillah [Thank God] we can supress the fires to be significantly less than 2019,” the ministry’s climate change director-general, Laksmi Dhewanthi, said during an event at the ministry’s office in Jakarta on Dec. 27. Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said she estimated the size of the fires would grow by the end of 2023, since the figure of 994,313.18 hectares represented fires as of October 2023. “I estimated that by the end of November 2023, the size of fires would grow by more than 200,000 hectares [494,200 acres],” she said during the event. “But&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/2023-fires-increase-fivefold-in-indonesia-amid-el-nino/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-277520</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Traditional small farmers burned by Indonesia&#8217;s war on wildfires</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/traditional-small-farmers-burned-by-indonesias-war-on-wildfires/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Dec 2023 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Aseanty PahleviHans Nicholas JongM Rahim ArzaPhilip JacobsonYusie Marie]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian Forests, Indonesian Palm Oil, Investigation, and Jokowi Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, North Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, Southeast Asia, and West Kalimantan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Climate Change, Crime, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Farming, Fires, Forestry, Forests, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Industrial Agriculture, Law, Law Enforcement, Mongabay Data Studio, Palm Oil, Peatlands, Plantations, Politics, Rainforests, Slash-and-burn, Social Justice, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[LIMBUNG, Indonesia — Tall brush has taken over the land that Sarijan farmed for decades here on the island of Borneo. At the height of Indonesia’s 2019 wildfire crisis, the now-62-year-old set a fire to clear this tiny plot outside his home of vegetation. He planned to fertilize the soil with ash and plant rice [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[LIMBUNG, Indonesia — Tall brush has taken over the land that Sarijan farmed for decades here on the island of Borneo. At the height of Indonesia’s 2019 wildfire crisis, the now-62-year-old set a fire to clear this tiny plot outside his home of vegetation. He planned to fertilize the soil with ash and plant rice and chili. But Sarijan never saw his crops bear fruit — owing to his use of an agricultural method dating back thousands of years. Instead, he spent the next seven months behind bars, where he says he was assaulted by other inmates and extorted by prison officials. Today, the field sits unused. “There were beatings, and they extorted me for money,” Sarijan told Mongabay. “I got beaten so badly I was coughing up blood.” Sarijan is one of scores of Indonesians to be criminally prosecuted for burning land for agricultural purposes since President Joko Widodo vowed to prevent a repeat of the nation’s 2015 wildfire and air pollution crisis, Mongabay has found, based on an analysis of court records from Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. A large majority, like Sarijan, were small farmers cultivating 2 hectares (5 acres) or less. Few had legal representation, almost all were declared guilty, and dozens received prison sentences of at least three years. Sarijan cuts through the brush in the abandoned rice field. Image by Victor Fidelis Sentosa for Mongabay. The analysis shows regional law enforcers have turned to locking up slash-and-burn cultivators as a key tool for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/traditional-small-farmers-burned-by-indonesias-war-on-wildfires/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As fire season worsens, Indonesian activists report four companies for burning</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/as-fire-season-worsens-indonesian-activists-report-four-companies-for-burning/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Nov 2023 15:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Air Pollution, Business, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Environment, Environmental Law, Fires, Forests, Law, Law Enforcement, Palm Oil, Plantations, and Pulp And Paper]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Activists have reported four companies — two industrial forest firms and two palm oil firms — to the local police over fires in their concessions in Central Kalimantan as Indonesia is grappling with its worst fire episode since 2019. According to satellite image analysis done Sept. 2-10, the activists found a total of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Activists have reported four companies — two industrial forest firms and two palm oil firms — to the local police over fires in their concessions in Central Kalimantan as Indonesia is grappling with its worst fire episode since 2019. According to satellite image analysis done Sept. 2-10, the activists found a total of 3,650 hectares (9,000 acres) of burning in the four concessions. The two pulpwood firms are PT Industrial Forest Plantation (IFP) and PT Rimbun Seruyan, with 441 hectares (1,100 acres) and 2,055 hectares (5,100 acres), respectively, of identified burning. The two palm oil companies are PT Karya Luhur Sejati (KLS) and PT Globalindo Agung Lestari (GAL). There were 1,122 hectares (2,800 acres) of fires detected in the former and 32 hectares (79 acres) in the latter. Most of the fires are in concessions that haven’t been cultivated yet, according to environmental NGO Save Our Borneo (SOB) director Muhammad Habibi. These four concessions were also burned during the 2019 great fire episode, when 1.6 million hectares (3.95 million acres) of lands and forests in Indonesia were up in flames. This year’s fire season is expected to be the worst since 2019, due to unusually scorching weather as a result of an El Niño system. Haze from this year’s fires continues to shutter schools and sicken thousands across Sumatra and Borneo. After the 2019 fire season, some of the burned concessions had been planted with palm oil trees, indicating an intentional burning, said Bayu Herinata, the Central Kalimantan&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/as-fire-season-worsens-indonesian-activists-report-four-companies-for-burning/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/indonesian-police-slammed-after-protester-demanding-rightful-land-is-shot-dead/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Oct 2023 08:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Business, Conflict, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Environment, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Palm Oil, Plantations, Social Conflict, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[BALIKPAPAN, East Kalimantan — Activists have slammed the Indonesian police for rights violations after officers reportedly shot dead a villager and injured at least two others during a protest against an oil palm plantation company in Borneo. Gijik, 35, was shot in the chest during the Oct. 7 protest held by residents of the mostly [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BALIKPAPAN, East Kalimantan — Activists have slammed the Indonesian police for rights violations after officers reportedly shot dead a villager and injured at least two others during a protest against an oil palm plantation company in Borneo. Gijik, 35, was shot in the chest during the Oct. 7 protest held by residents of the mostly Indigenous Dayak village of Bangkal, Central Kalimantan province, according to AMAN, Indonesia&#8217;s main alliance of Indigenous peoples. Another protester, Taufik Nurrahman, 21, was shot in the waist and is in critical condition, Bangkal community leader James Watt told Mongabay Indonesia. A third person, Ambaryanto, 53, was injured in the arm and leg, while police also arrested some 20 villagers, according to James. Police opened fire on the villagers as they protested against plantation firm PT Hamparan Masawit Bangun Persada (HMBP), an affiliate of the BEST Group. The Bangkal villagers have been protesting since Sept. 16 to demand the company comply with its obligation to allocate 20% of its concession to the community under a government-mandated sharing scheme known as “plasma.” “What happened in Seruyan today is a crime against humanity, a violation of human rights, and a violent act done openly by the state,” said Uli Arta Siagian, forestry and plantation campaigner at the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi). Sekar Banjaran Aji, national coordinator at the Public Interest Lawyer Network (PIL-NET), called the police’s action “inhuman” and unjustifiable. “We can see how the police failed to use their logic so that they resorted to using&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/indonesian-police-slammed-after-protester-demanding-rightful-land-is-shot-dead/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia awards biggest Indigenous forest claim yet to Bornean Dayaks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/indonesia-awards-biggest-indigenous-forest-claim-yet-to-bornean-dayaks/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Sep 2023 11:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Environment, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Reform, Land Rights, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has recognized the rights of 15 Indigenous Dayak communities to forests on Borneo covering a combined area larger than Jakarta. The nearly 70,000 hectares (173,000 acres) is the largest cluster of customary forests ever recognized by the state. “This recognition of 15 ancestral forests in Gunung Mas district, Central Kalimantan [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has recognized the rights of 15 Indigenous Dayak communities to forests on Borneo covering a combined area larger than Jakarta. The nearly 70,000 hectares (173,000 acres) is the largest cluster of customary forests ever recognized by the state. “This recognition of 15 ancestral forests in Gunung Mas district, Central Kalimantan province, is a positive achievement to commemorate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on August 9,” Alue Dohong, the deputy environment minister, said at an Aug. 8 ceremony to hand over the titles to the customary forests to the Gunung Mas district head. Environment and Forestry Deputy Minister Alue Dohong hands over a decree that grants formal recognition of customary forests to Gunung Mas district head Jaya S Monong in August 2023. Image courtesy of the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry. The recognition is a long time coming for the Indigenous peoples of Gunung Mas, who began the process to obtain formal customary rights to their forests more than 11 years ago, according to Indonesia’s main Indigenous alliance, AMAN. “The main challenge was the [lack of] commitment from the local government,” Ferdi Kurnianto, the head of the Central Kalimantan provincial chapter of AMAN, said as quoted by Indonesian daily Kompas. “They [the Indigenous communities] have been fighting for so long.” The recognition of the ancestral forests is part of President Joko Widodo’s flagship social forestry program. Under the program, his administration aims to reallocate 12.7 million hectares (31.4 million acres) of state forests&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/indonesia-awards-biggest-indigenous-forest-claim-yet-to-bornean-dayaks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Migrating orangutan males imitate locals to learn about food: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/migrating-orangutan-males-imitate-locals-to-learn-about-food-study/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Jul 2023 04:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aceh, Asia, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Great Apes, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Orangutans, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Research, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Male orangutans that resettle to a new area appear to be imitating the behavior of local individuals in an effort to survive and find a future home range, a new study says. Male orangutans that have reached sexual maturity tend to leave their birthplace and migrate to find a new home where they [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Male orangutans that resettle to a new area appear to be imitating the behavior of local individuals in an effort to survive and find a future home range, a new study says. Male orangutans that have reached sexual maturity tend to leave their birthplace and migrate to find a new home where they will adopt different skills of foraging, a group of researchers from universities in Germany, France and Indonesia reported in their recently published paper in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. They’ve dubbed the behavior learning skill as “peering” and described it as when migrant male orangutans intensively observe over a period of time a certain local they have chosen as a role model. “Over the last few years, we have gained a pretty good understanding of observational social learning in immature orangutans and other primates so far,” Julia Mörchen, a Ph.D. candidate at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz, Germany, who is the lead author of the paper, told Mongabay in an email interview. “However, natural learning in adult primates in the wild remains largely uninvestigated.” An unflanged migrant orangutan male feeding on leaves from a tree fern, Akar Pakis Sarang Burung (Drynaria sparsisora). Orangutan species Pongo abelii, Image courtesy of Julia Mörchen for SUAQ Project. “Our results provide evidence that in general adult male orangutans are able to learn and &#8216;update&#8217; their already learned knowledge repertoires, when they are confronted with a new and unknown ecology,” she said. Previous research&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/migrating-orangutan-males-imitate-locals-to-learn-about-food-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Civil society changes up campaign against jailed Kalimantan farmers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/civil-society-changes-up-campaign-against-jailed-kalimantan-farmers/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Jul 2023 14:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Richaldo Hariandja]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian Palm Oil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Conflict, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Human Rights, Law, Law Enforcement, Palm Oil, Plantations, Protests, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Kinjil Three languished in a jail cell an island away as demonstrators arrived outside a beige Jakarta office block and began distributing thousands of coins on the street. “I came from Central Kalimantan to meet the BGA leadership,” said Gusti Samudera, who traveled to Jakarta for the demonstration, referring to a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Kinjil Three languished in a jail cell an island away as demonstrators arrived outside a beige Jakarta office block and began distributing thousands of coins on the street. “I came from Central Kalimantan to meet the BGA leadership,” said Gusti Samudera, who traveled to Jakarta for the demonstration, referring to a plantation company in Central Kalimantan province. “We demand the release of Aleng, Suwadi and Maju, who are accused of stealing palm fruit from their own land.” In April, police and security officers from PT Bumitama Gunajaya Abadi (BGA) arrested Aleng Sugianto, 63, Suwadi, 40, and Maju 63, three farmers from Kinjil, a village in the West Kotawaringin district of Central Kalimantan province. The trio stand accused of stealing oil palm fruit worth around 2.9 million rupiah ($190), according to civil society groups. The three farmers now face a possible seven-year prison sentence. They’ve already spent two months behind bars on remand, unable to provide for their families. Following the arrests, local residents and civil society groups swiftly formed a campaign group to protest the farmers’ detention. Outraged by what they perceived to be a heavy-handed approach by law enforcement, members of the Justice for Kinjil Farmers Coalition decided to collect coins in Central Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, to make their provocative statement. “Maybe BGA was short on money seeing as the loss of 2.9 million rupiah put our colleagues in jail,” said Uli Artha Siagian, forestry campaign lead for the Indonesian Forum for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/civil-society-changes-up-campaign-against-jailed-kalimantan-farmers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Report links paper giant RGE to Indonesia deforestation despite pledges</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/report-links-paper-giant-rge-to-indonesia-deforestation-despite-pledges/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Jul 2023 17:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, China, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Business, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, forest degradation, Forest Loss, Forests, International Trade, Logging, Plantations, Pulp And Paper, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Timber, timber trade, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Singapore-based pulp and paper giant Royal Golden Eagle is linked to deforestation in Indonesia despite having a no-deforestation policy since 2015, an investigative report says. RGE is one of the world’s largest producers of wood pulp and the products that are made from it, including paper, tissue, packaging, and viscose rayon. The report [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Singapore-based pulp and paper giant Royal Golden Eagle is linked to deforestation in Indonesia despite having a no-deforestation policy since 2015, an investigative report says. RGE is one of the world’s largest producers of wood pulp and the products that are made from it, including paper, tissue, packaging, and viscose rayon. The report co-published by five environmental organizations alleges that RGE’s pulp and paper unit in China, Asia Symbol, received 1.5 million cubic meters (53 million cubic feet) of wood in 2021-2022 from nine pulpwood suppliers in Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo. Using geospatial remote-sensing data from TheTreeMap, the report, titled “Pulping Borneo,” found that three of the nine suppliers had cleared a combined 37,105 hectares (91,688 acres) of natural forest in Kalimantan — an area more than half the size of Singapore — from 2016 to 2022. The three suppliers are PT Industrial Forest Plantations (IFP) in Central Kalimantan province, PT Adindo Hutani Lestari (AHL) in North Kalimantan, and PT Fajar Surya Swadaya (FSS) in East Kalimantan. IFP accounted for the largest deforested area, with 21,827 hectares (53,936 acres) of forest loss detected within its concession during that period. The company’s deforestation rate peaked at 6,790 hectares (16,778 acres) in 2022, the second-highest rate of forest loss among nearly 300 pulpwood concessions in Indonesia. Almost all of IFP’s concession area, including the forest that was recently cleared, is identified as orangutan habitat, according to data from Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry. While&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/report-links-paper-giant-rge-to-indonesia-deforestation-despite-pledges/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-270534</doi>				</item>
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					<title>High-carbon peat among 1,500 hectares cleared for Indonesia’s food estate</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/high-carbon-peat-among-1500-hectares-cleared-for-indonesias-food-estate/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Apr 2023 03:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Sumatra, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Food, Food Industry, food security, forest degradation, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Peatlands, Plantations, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — When Indonesia embarked on its Mega Rice Project in the mid-1990s, it cleared vast swaths of forest for farmland, mostly in the peatlands of Borneo — only to abandon the scheme when it discovered that the carbon-rich peat soil was a poor host for rice cultivation. Fast-forward to the present day, and the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — When Indonesia embarked on its Mega Rice Project in the mid-1990s, it cleared vast swaths of forest for farmland, mostly in the peatlands of Borneo — only to abandon the scheme when it discovered that the carbon-rich peat soil was a poor host for rice cultivation. Fast-forward to the present day, and the government is repeating the same folly with its near-identical “food estate” program, according to multiple reports of forest loss associated with the program. The Indonesian government’s program to establish large-scale agricultural plantations across the country has resulted in the loss of forests, including fragile peatlands, reports say. A recent spatial analysis by peatland watchdog Pantau Gambut found more than 1,500 hectares (3,700 acres) of forest had been cleared in the Bornean province of Central Kalimantan. The largest forest loss was detected in Tewai Baru village, Gunung Mas district, where 700 hectares (1,730 acres) of forest were cleared to make way for cassava plantations under the food estate program. This dovetails with another analysis carried out in 2022 by Greenpeace Indonesia, which found 760 hectares (1,880 acres) of forest had been cleared in Gunung Mas since November 2020. Deforestation for the food estate program is also ongoing in the northern part of the island of Sumatra. An investigation there by the NGO Kaoem Telapak in July 2022 found that forest clearing was happening in the village of Ulu Merah, in North Sumatra province, with a plan to clear 500 hectares (1,240 acres). A spatial analysis using&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/high-carbon-peat-among-1500-hectares-cleared-for-indonesias-food-estate/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Report: Indonesia’s ‘food estate’ program repeating failures of past projects</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/report-indonesias-food-estate-program-repeating-failures-of-past-projects/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Apr 2023 16:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Climate Change, Deforestation, Environment, Food, food security, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Peatlands, Politics, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — When the Indonesian government announced its food estate program in 2020, it envisioned the establishment of large-scale agricultural plantations across the country. These plantations of crops like rice, cassava and potato were supposed to be the answer to what the government says is an impending global food crisis, and would help feed the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — When the Indonesian government announced its food estate program in 2020, it envisioned the establishment of large-scale agricultural plantations across the country. These plantations of crops like rice, cassava and potato were supposed to be the answer to what the government says is an impending global food crisis, and would help feed the world’s fourth-largest population. But a field investigation at the sites of the food estate program in the Bornean province of Central Kalimantan by independent researchers in March 2022 and February 2023 instead found sprawling plantations that had been abandoned. Three years into the program, there’s no rice or cassava crops ready to be harvested, and no farmers tending their fields. Instead, wild shrubs have sprouted on these plots of lands, and excavators have started to rust away, according to the investigation by environmental NGOs Pantau Gambut and Walhi Central Kalimantan, and BBC News Indonesia. In the village of Tewai Baru, Gunung Mas district, for instance, the investigation found 600 hectares (nearly 1,500 acres) of cassava plantations withering away. Villagers told the researchers that the crops hadn’t been harvested. And despite being more than a year old, well into maturity for cassava plants, these crops appeared thin and stunted, the researchers found. The cassava tubers themselves were small, about the size of a human finger. The investigation also found seven abandoned excavators that no longer worked. A cleared area for the establishment of cassava plantation as a part of the food estate program in the Tewai&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/report-indonesias-food-estate-program-repeating-failures-of-past-projects/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia’s Supreme Court rules President Widodo not liable in 2015 fires</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/indonesias-supreme-court-rules-president-widodo-not-liable-in-2015-fires/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Nov 2022 11:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, El Nino, Environment, Environmental Law, Fires, Forests, Law, Law Enforcement, Politics, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia&#8217;s Supreme Court has ruled President Joko Widodo not liable in the disastrous fires in 2015 that devastate large swathes of rainforests and peatlands in the country, despite three previous court rulings that found the president liable for the disaster. In 2016, a group of citizens and environmental activists in the province of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia&#8217;s Supreme Court has ruled President Joko Widodo not liable in the disastrous fires in 2015 that devastate large swathes of rainforests and peatlands in the country, despite three previous court rulings that found the president liable for the disaster. In 2016, a group of citizens and environmental activists in the province of Central Kalimantan affected by the 2015 fires filed a citizen lawsuit against the government, including the president. In the lawsuit, the citizens said the government had failed to issue strong policies and carry out measures to prevent the annual recurring fire episode, and thus was liable for the 2015 fires in Central Kalimantan. The great fires razed 2.6 million hectares  (6.42 million acres) of land across the country, much of it carbon-rich peat forests, and sent clouds of choking haze billowing across large parts of Indonesia and neighboring Singapore and Malaysia. The citizens won in 2018, but the government appealed the case all the way to the highest court. In 2019, the Supreme Court upheld the ruling, ordering the government to accommodate the plaintiffs’ demand for more stringent measures to address the annual fires. In its legal consideration, the court said disaster mitigation within a country, including Indonesia, is the government’s responsibility. In August 2022, the government requested a case review, a final avenue of legal recourse that’s permitted if there’s new evidence or circumstances. In this case, the government based its case review on the presence of new evidence. On Nov. 3, the Supreme&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/indonesias-supreme-court-rules-president-widodo-not-liable-in-2015-fires/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/after-20-years-and-thousands-of-trees-planted-kalimantans-veteran-forester-persists/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Sep 2022 02:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Budi BaskoroLusia Arumingtyas]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesia's Forest Guardians and Indonesian Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Afforestation, Biodiversity, Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation leadership, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Landscape Restoration, Rainforests, Reforestation, Restoration, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Trees, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia — For 20 years, Redansyah has awakened every day at 5 a.m. to plant trees here in the Pesalat forest area of Central Kalimantan province. The Indigenous Dayak begins the day searching the forest for seedlings, then prepares the ground for planting before nurturing the recently seeded. “I can’t spend too long [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia — For 20 years, Redansyah has awakened every day at 5 a.m. to plant trees here in the Pesalat forest area of Central Kalimantan province. The Indigenous Dayak begins the day searching the forest for seedlings, then prepares the ground for planting before nurturing the recently seeded. “I can’t spend too long in the city, maybe a week at most,” Redansyah, commonly known as Ledan, told Mongabay. “It gives me a headache.” The route to Ledan’s work area, here in the northwestern corner of Tanjung Puting National Park, crosses an 800-meter-long (2,600-foot) wooden bridge past a dense crowd of Dipterocarpaceae, meranti, Palaquium and Thymelaeaceae trees well known for traditional medical applications. A covering of moss has grown over the bridge to the Pesalat rehabilitation area. Birdsong and cicadas sound over the surrounding peatland and the Sekonyer River, which flows a short distance from Pangkalan Bun, the capital of Central Kalimantan’s West Kotawaringin district. For almost two decades, Ledan has consistently planted trees to restore Pesalat. Image by Lusia Arumingtyas/Mongabay. The Pesalat community reforestation initiative is run in partnership with residents of Sekonyer village and the Friends of the National Park Foundation (FNPF), an NGO based on the island of Bali. Ledan has been here since the beginning. He has planted around 180 seedlings every month since the FNPF partnership with the Sekonyer community began back in 2003, totalling maybe 40,000 trees in a career spanning two decades. The Pesalat rehabilitation work is visible to ecotourism visitors in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/after-20-years-and-thousands-of-trees-planted-kalimantans-veteran-forester-persists/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Deforestation in Borneo threatens one in four orangutans, study says</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/deforestation-in-borneo-threatens-one-in-four-orangutans-study-says/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Jul 2022 15:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Great Apes and Indonesian Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, North Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, Southeast Asia, and West Kalimantan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Great Apes, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Logging, Mining, Orangutans, Palm Oil, Rainforests, Selective Logging, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Habitat for up to a quarter of the known population of Bornean orangutans will disappear across the island of Borneo under predicted patterns of deforestation over the next decade, a new study warns. Scientists employed a deforestation trend model to project that 74,419 square kilometers (28,733 square miles) of forest — an area [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Habitat for up to a quarter of the known population of Bornean orangutans will disappear across the island of Borneo under predicted patterns of deforestation over the next decade, a new study warns. Scientists employed a deforestation trend model to project that 74,419 square kilometers (28,733 square miles) of forest — an area a tenth the size of Italy — would be lost between 2018 and 2032. This would result in the loss of habitat for 26,200 orangutans, out of a total current population of just over 100,000. The paper, published July 14 in the journal Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, based this projection on forest loss of 59,949 km2 (23,146 mi2) between 2000 and 2017 across Borneo. A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay. The island of Borneo is split between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, although it’s not certain that Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) still occur in the tiny kingdom of Brunei. Nearly 150,000 of these great apes died between 1999 and 2015, largely due to deforestation and killing, according to a 2018 study. That study also projected that habitat loss would lead directly to the total future loss of 45,300 orangutans between 2020 and 2050. “Essentially, we have improved the deforestation model and thus the projection for this study,” said Maria Voigt, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and lead author of both the 2018 paper and the new study. She added that the previous habitat loss&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/deforestation-in-borneo-threatens-one-in-four-orangutans-study-says/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Plantations threaten Indonesia’s orangutans, but they’re not oil palm</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/plantations-threaten-indonesias-orangutans-but-theyre-not-oil-palm/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Jul 2022 12:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Southeast Asia, and West Kalimantan]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Animals, Apes, Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forestry, Forests, Great Apes, Logging, Orangutans, Palm Oil, Plantations, Protected Areas, Pulp And Paper, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The vast majority of orangutan habitat in Indonesia is located outside of protected areas. That can be bad news for orangutans living in corporate concessions, where a new report finds many companies lack safeguards and commitments to protect these critically endangered apes. The report, by Amsterdam-based sustainability consultancy Aidenvironment, found that Indonesia has [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The vast majority of orangutan habitat in Indonesia is located outside of protected areas. That can be bad news for orangutans living in corporate concessions, where a new report finds many companies lack safeguards and commitments to protect these critically endangered apes. The report, by Amsterdam-based sustainability consultancy Aidenvironment, found that Indonesia has 14.1 million hectares (34.8 million acres) of forested habitat suitable for orangutans. Only a quarter of that, or 3.46 million hectares (8.55 million acres), falls within the boundaries of protected areas such as national parks, nature reserves, game reserves and protected forests. Meanwhile, almost double this amount, 6.22 million hectares (15.37 million acres), lies within corporate oil palm, logging, and industrial tree concessions, according to the analysis. This finding comes from overlaying Aidenvironment’s concession data with data on orangutan habitats derived from the orangutan population and habitat viability assessment (PHVA) carried out by the Indonesian government. Aidenvironment pointed out that just because there’s orangutan habitat in a corporate concession, it doesn’t necessarily mean there are orangutans still living in the concession. However, based on observations, orangutans are often found within areas with human activities, instead of in primary natural forests with no disturbance, according to Belinda Arunarwati Margono, the Indonesian environment ministry’s director of forest resource monitoring. “What’s interesting is that they don’t only live in [undisturbed forests]. They live everywhere,” she said at an online press conference. “So orangutans like to be close to us, their distant relatives. They like to be in disturbed areas.” Aidenvironment&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/plantations-threaten-indonesias-orangutans-but-theyre-not-oil-palm/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As dry season starts in Indonesia, risk of fires — and haze — looms</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/as-dry-season-starts-in-indonesia-risk-of-fires-and-haze-looms/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Jul 2022 14:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian Forests and Indonesian Palm Oil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Riau, Singapore, South Kalimantan, South Sumatra, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, and West Kalimantan]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Air Pollution, Business, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deforestation, Environment, Fires, Forests, Palm Oil, Peatlands, Plantations, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A new analysis warns of the potential for forest fires in Indonesia that could spread smoke to neighboring countries as this year’s dry season sets in, following two years of haze-free skies across this part of Southeast Asia. In their “Haze Outlook 2022” report, researchers at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A new analysis warns of the potential for forest fires in Indonesia that could spread smoke to neighboring countries as this year’s dry season sets in, following two years of haze-free skies across this part of Southeast Asia. In their “Haze Outlook 2022” report, researchers at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) said there’s a higher risk this year than last of the region experiencing some fires and transboundary haze. They looked at three factors — weather, policies and people — to determine that the risk comes primarily from the prospect of forest fires being set to clear land for plantations. Current record-high prices for palm oil and other forest commodities pose an incentivize for small farmers and big companies alike to expand their operations. In their report, the researchers cited an NGO warning of the potential for degraded peatlands in several provinces on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo being burned. “Fires in Riau, Jambi, and South Sumatra might reach Singapore and Peninsula Malaysia, while fires in West Kalimantan might affect air quality in East Malaysia,” the report said. “However, the NGO noted that this haze would be ‘short and limited’ compared to previous haze years.” This region of Southeast Asia has experienced several episodes of severe transboundary haze in the past, particularly in 1997/1998, 2015 and 2019, when smokes from fires in Sumatra blew across the Malacca Strait to Singapore and Malaysia, even going as far as southern Thailand, a distance of more than 600&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/as-dry-season-starts-in-indonesia-risk-of-fires-and-haze-looms/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-258032</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/the-promise-was-a-lie-how-indonesian-villagers-lost-their-cut-of-the-palm-oil-boom/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 May 2022 00:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[BBC NewsMongabayThe Gecko Project]]>
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						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian Palm Oil and Investigation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Jakarta, South Sumatra, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Conflict, Environment, Farming, Governance, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Industrial Agriculture, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Mongabay Data Studio, Mongabay investigation, Palm Oil, Plantations, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story won an Excellence in Reporting award from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) and the Trace Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2023. When the Indigenous villagers of Tebing Tinggi agreed to give control of their ancestral land to a palm oil company in 1995, it promised to transform their fortunes. The Suku [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story won an Excellence in Reporting award from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) and the Trace Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2023. When the Indigenous villagers of Tebing Tinggi agreed to give control of their ancestral land to a palm oil company in 1995, it promised to transform their fortunes. The Suku Anak Dalam were subsistence farmers, gathering fruit and hunting game in the rainforest. The deal could give them a cut of a lucrative industry that was expanding rapidly across the island of Sumatra, in Indonesia. The company, London Sumatra, would take control of the community’s land. In return, according to the Suku Anak Dalam, they were told they would get more than half of it back, planted with oil palms, a wonder crop whose oil was in rising demand across the globe. It would be a win-win, as the Suku Anak Dalam would sell the fruit they harvested to the company. “The promise was a lie,” Mat Yadi, a Suku Anak Dalam leader, told us recently. “Nothing was returned to us. They took everything.” Over a quarter century, London Sumatra’s oil palms grew tall and the bright-orange fruit flooded into its mill, producing millions of dollars’ worth of edible oil. But the Suku Anak Dalam never received the smallholdings they say they were promised. They lost not only the expected profits from the oil palm, but their land too. By 2022, many of the tribe were living in makeshift huts inside a plantation, scraping together&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/the-promise-was-a-lie-how-indonesian-villagers-lost-their-cut-of-the-palm-oil-boom/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Lack of resolution mechanisms allow palm oil conflicts to fester in Indonesia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/lack-of-resolution-mechanisms-allow-palm-oil-conflicts-to-fester-in-indonesia/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Nov 2021 14:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian Palm Oil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Riau, Southeast Asia, West Kalimantan, and West Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Conflict, Environment, Human Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Palm Oil, Plantations, Resource Conflict, and Social Conflict]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia has no effective mechanism for resolving its epidemic of land conflicts between rural communities and palm oil companies, according to a new study. Indonesia is the world’s top producer of palm oil, but the industry’s rapid expansion has fueled deforestation and allegations of land grabbing throughout the archipelago nation. The study, produced [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia has no effective mechanism for resolving its epidemic of land conflicts between rural communities and palm oil companies, according to a new study. Indonesia is the world’s top producer of palm oil, but the industry’s rapid expansion has fueled deforestation and allegations of land grabbing throughout the archipelago nation. The study, produced by Dutch and Indonesian academics in collaboration with six Indonesian NGOs, is billed as the first-ever systematic documentation of a large number of land conflicts in the Southeast Asian country. Researchers analyzed 150 cases in four provinces — Riau, West Sumatra, West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan — randomly selected from a list of 554 cases they identified by examining media and government reports from the past decade. They interviewed community representatives from each of the 150 cases, in some cases traveling to the affecting villages to meet sources in person. They found that existing channels for addressing conflict between villagers and plantation firms — namely, informal mediation facilitated by local authorities, the courts, and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil — generally “fail to produce meaningful results for the affected communities.” These mechanisms rarely solved conflicts, and even when they did, the process took nine years on average. In nearly 70% of the studied conflicts, the communities reported that they had not or had barely succeeded in addressing their grievances. These cases had been ongoing for an average of 11 years. With no other avenue for redress, communities often resort to staging demonstrations. These typically&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/lack-of-resolution-mechanisms-allow-palm-oil-conflicts-to-fester-in-indonesia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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