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					<title>‘Heart of Borneo’ dams raze Indigenous forests for Indonesia green energy drive</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/heart-of-borneo-dams-raze-indigenous-forests-for-indonesia-green-energy-drive/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Apr 2025 02:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abdallah Naem]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Dams, Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Forests, Governance, Hydroelectric Power, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[MALINAU, Indonesia — Indonesia is pressing ahead with construction of a new network of dams in Borneo to power a major “green” industrial estate that will relocate Indigenous communities and cut into one of Asia’s largest stretches of intact rainforest. “Finding fish and animals has already become difficult,” Yusmarang, a member of North Kalimantan’s Punan [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MALINAU, Indonesia — Indonesia is pressing ahead with construction of a new network of dams in Borneo to power a major “green” industrial estate that will relocate Indigenous communities and cut into one of Asia’s largest stretches of intact rainforest. “Finding fish and animals has already become difficult,” Yusmarang, a member of North Kalimantan’s Punan Indigenous community, told Mongabay Indonesia. Last year, Mongabay reported from Malinau district, near Indonesia’s border with Malaysia, on efforts by PT Malinau Hijau Lestari to deforest thousands of hectares to grow biomass for coal-fired power plants. Indonesia’s central government is also forging ahead with plans to construct five dams along three rivers in North Kalimantan province as part of Southeast Asia’s largest hydroelectric project. The cost of the cascade is estimated at more than $20 billion. Then-president Joko Widodo attended a ceremony in 2023 to mark the beginning of the Mentarang Induk Dam. Another dam planned in Bulungan district on the Kayan River will flood two villages, Long Leju and Long Peleban. On completion of the final stage, which is scheduled for 2035, the five combined units could yield a generation capacity of 9,000 megawatts. This cascade of dams through the old-growth forests of northern Borneo will power a vast new industrial estate that authorities in Jakarta consider of strategic importance for Indonesia. The government says it hopes the Kalimantan Industrial Park Indonesia (KIPI) estate will be the largest “green industrial area” in the world. “The industrial park, which covers an area of 13,000 hectares&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/heart-of-borneo-dams-raze-indigenous-forests-for-indonesia-green-energy-drive/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Revealed: Biomass firm poised to clear Bornean rainforest for dubious ‘green’ energy</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/revealed-biomass-company-poised-to-clear-bornean-rainforest-for-dubious-green-energy/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/revealed-biomass-company-poised-to-clear-bornean-rainforest-for-dubious-green-energy/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Oct 2024 00:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas JongPhilip Jacobson]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Indonesia, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Bioenergy, Climate Change, Coal, Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Governance, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Land Grabbing, Logging, Mongabay Data Studio, Plantations, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[(Baca dalam Bahasa Indonesia.) LABAN NYARIT, Indonesia — Ipu Angit’s close relationship with the forest here in the interior of Borneo is evident as he identifies the plants and trees he uses to meet his daily needs, venturing deeper in despite the hot, humid weather and his advanced age. One moment he deftly fashions a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[(Baca dalam Bahasa Indonesia.) LABAN NYARIT, Indonesia — Ipu Angit’s close relationship with the forest here in the interior of Borneo is evident as he identifies the plants and trees he uses to meet his daily needs, venturing deeper in despite the hot, humid weather and his advanced age. One moment he deftly fashions a makeshift umbrella out of palm leaves. The next he points out some young rattan stems, which he often prepares to eat by boiling to reduce the bitterness and then either cooking them with turmeric or eating them raw. Lately, however, Ipu has been clouded by anxiety: the rainforest he calls home appears set to be demolished for wood pellet production by a coal company seeking to pivot to “green” energy. “If this forest disappeared, where would we find these things?” Ipu asks. “This is what keeps the Punan people alive.” Spear in hand, Ipu Angit traverses the forest near his home, which falls within a biomass plantation concession held by PT Malinau Hijau Lestari. Image by Nanang Sujana for Mongabay. Ipu&#8217;s home village of Laban Nyarit in Malinau district, North Kalimantan. Image by Nanang Sujana for Mongabay. Indonesia is the world&#8217;s fourth-most-populous country and a top greenhouse gas emitter, with nearly half its energy coming from coal. As the nation strives to make good on its pledges to cut fossil fuels, President Joko Widodo has promoted biomass energy, derived from burning plant and animal products, as a sustainable alternative. His administration, whose term came to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/revealed-biomass-company-poised-to-clear-bornean-rainforest-for-dubious-green-energy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-288771</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Hyundai ends aluminum deal with Adaro Minerals following K-pop protest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/hyundai-ends-aluminum-deal-with-adaro-minerals-following-k-pop-protest/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Apr 2024 03:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Coal, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Electric Cars, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydroelectric Power, and Industry]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — South Korean automobile giant Hyundai has ended an agreement with Adaro Minerals, a subsidiary of Indonesia’s second-largest coal miner, PT Adaro Energy, to procure aluminum for its electric vehicle (EV) production. Hyundai and Adaro Minerals signed the agreement in November 2022, and at the end of 2023, both agreed not to renew the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — South Korean automobile giant Hyundai has ended an agreement with Adaro Minerals, a subsidiary of Indonesia’s second-largest coal miner, PT Adaro Energy, to procure aluminum for its electric vehicle (EV) production. Hyundai and Adaro Minerals signed the agreement in November 2022, and at the end of 2023, both agreed not to renew the agreement and “to explore other opportunities independently,” Hyundai said in a statement. The decision came on the heels of campaigns by K-pop fans who urged Hyundai to back out of the agreement and to avoid sourcing aluminum from Adaro since it will be produced using coal power. Upon signing the agreement, Hyundai described the aluminum as “green and low-carbon” because it would be produced using hydroelectric power. This, Hyundai said, would “accelerate” the transition to sustainable energy and help the company meet its net-zero emissions goal by 2045. However, Adaro would only start producing aluminum using hydroelectric power in 2030. Before that, Adaro will build 2.2 gigawatts of coal-fired power plants to power its aluminum smelter in an industrial park, itself branded as “green,” in Indonesia’s North Kalimantan province. The aluminum smelter and the industrial park, touted as the largest of its kind in the world, are a part of Indonesia’s bid to become a global production hub for EVs. Since the smelter will rely on coal during at least the first five years of its operation, any purchase of aluminum from the company will be a violation of Hyundai’s Carbon Neutrality Principles. Those principles require&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/hyundai-ends-aluminum-deal-with-adaro-minerals-following-k-pop-protest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-281025</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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					<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-276590</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Independent project steps in as government slow to map Indonesian ancestral lands</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/independent-project-steps-in-as-government-slow-to-map-indonesian-ancestral-lands/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2023 03:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Mapping, and Sustainable Forest Management]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — An independent initiative in Indonesia has ramped up its efforts in mapping Indigenous lands, with 6 million hectares (14.8 million acres) mapped in the past year alone. As of August, the Ancestral Domain Registration Agency (BRWA) had mapped 26.9 million hectares (66.5 million acres) — an area twice the size of Java — [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — An independent initiative in Indonesia has ramped up its efforts in mapping Indigenous lands, with 6 million hectares (14.8 million acres) mapped in the past year alone. As of August, the Ancestral Domain Registration Agency (BRWA) had mapped 26.9 million hectares (66.5 million acres) — an area twice the size of Java — of land claimed by Indigenous communities. This is up from 20.7 million hectares (51.2 million acres) of land mapped by the same point last year. The BRWA was established by a group of NGOs to guide Indigenous groups in mapping their own territories, including forests, rivers and sea, in response to the government’s slow progress in recognizing these ancestral land rights. Most of the areas mapped recently are in Malinau district, in the Bornean province of North Kalimantan, with the mapping of 1.8 million hectares (4.4 million acres) of land claimed by one Indigenous community there. While the BRWA has been making rapid progress in mapping Indigenous lands, the government’s efforts in recognizing these lands continue to lag behind. To date, the government has recognized only 219 Indigenous territories spanning a combined 3.73 million hectares (9.21 million acres) — just 14% of what the BRWA has mapped, spanning 1,336 territories. This recognition comes in the form of the issuance of local regulations and decrees by the regional heads. BRWA head Kasmita Widodo said the government’s progress in recognizing Indigenous lands had been sluggish due to lack of capacity from local governments. To facilitate the recognition&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/independent-project-steps-in-as-government-slow-to-map-indonesian-ancestral-lands/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-274980</doi>				</item>
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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]]>
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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>Indonesian coal giant Adaro’s ‘sustainable’ smelter slammed as ‘greenwashing’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/indonesian-coal-giant-adaros-sustainable-smelter-slammed-as-greenwashing/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Jun 2023 10:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alternative Energy, Business, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Electric Cars, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Fossils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Industry, Mining, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s largest coal miner, PT Adaro Energy, faces claims of greenwashing over its plan to build coal-fired power plants on the island of Borneo to provide electricity for its aluminum smelter there. At its annual shareholders’ meeting in Jakarta on May 11, two shareholders protested against the planned captive power plants, known as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Indonesia’s largest coal miner, PT Adaro Energy, faces claims of greenwashing over its plan to build coal-fired power plants on the island of Borneo to provide electricity for its aluminum smelter there. At its annual shareholders’ meeting in Jakarta on May 11, two shareholders protested against the planned captive power plants, known as such because they’re designed specifically to supply certain industries and not to feed into the grid. “Stop the development of new coal plants. One billion people will be threatened by the climate crisis due to coal plants,” one of the shareholders shouted while being escorted out of the meeting. A shareholder of Indonesia&#8217;s largest coal miner Adaro Energy protests against the company&#8217;s plan to build coal-fired power plants to supply electricity to its aluminum smelter in North Kalimantan. Image courtesy of Greenpeace Indonesia. The plants, with a combined capacity of 2.2 gigawatts, will supply Adaro’s aluminum smelter in an industrial park, itself branded as “green,” in North Kalimantan province. The park is being touted, once completed, as the largest of its kind in the world, home to Indonesia’s first electric vehicle battery production, alongside petrochemical and aluminum industries. The smelter project, estimated to cost $2 billion, has entered the preconstruction phase and is expected to start commercial operation in 2025. Once running at full capacity in 2029, it will be able to produce 1.5 million metric tons of aluminum a year, the company says. Aluminum is used in the lithium nickel-cobalt-aluminum oxide (NCA) cathodes that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/indonesian-coal-giant-adaros-sustainable-smelter-slammed-as-greenwashing/" 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>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/deforestation-in-borneo-threatens-one-in-four-orangutans-study-says/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>26 Jul 2022 15:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
						</dc:creator>
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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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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-258569</doi>				</item>
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					<title>NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/ngos-alert-u-n-to-furtive-2-million-hectare-carbon-deal-in-malaysian-borneo/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/ngos-alert-u-n-to-furtive-2-million-hectare-carbon-deal-in-malaysian-borneo/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>17 Mar 2022 04:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation and Land rights and extractives]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Kalimantan, Malaysia, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, carbon, Carbon Credits, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, climate finance, Conflict, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Culture, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Law, Finance, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forests, Governance, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Landscape Restoration, Logging, Mining, Nature-based climate solutions, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Politics, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, public lands, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Redd, Reforestation, Restoration, Solutions, Sustainable Forest Management, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Organizations in the Malaysian state of Sabah have filed a complaint with the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples about a once-secretive deal aimed at locking up the rights to credits for carbon and other “natural capital” from the state’s forests. Several leaders in Sabah signed the nature conservation agreement, or NCA, with [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Organizations in the Malaysian state of Sabah have filed a complaint with the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples about a once-secretive deal aimed at locking up the rights to credits for carbon and other “natural capital” from the state’s forests. Several leaders in Sabah signed the nature conservation agreement, or NCA, with representatives from a Singaporean firm called Hoch Standard Pte. Ltd. on Oct. 28, 2021. The NCA laid out a revenue-sharing plan that covered the right to sell credits from the ecosystem services provided by 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) of forest for at least the next 100 years. Proponents of the deal said it would provide funding for economic development to the state and ensure the covered area is protected from logging and other destructive impacts. But the terms were finalized by and large without the knowledge of Indigenous and forest-dependent communities living in Sabah, said Peter Burgess, an Australian businessman who said he was involved in negotiating the agreement, in a November 2021 interview with Mongabay. Since Mongabay published an article on Nov. 9 that first made the details of the NCA public, attacks on the legality and ethical rigor of the arrangement have beleaguered the deal and its proponents. Many skeptics argue that the lack of transparency calls into question whether the deal is binding or enforceable. A rope bridge connected to a community in the Crocker Range. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay. “We are taking this issue to the United Nations&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/ngos-alert-u-n-to-furtive-2-million-hectare-carbon-deal-in-malaysian-borneo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As Malaysian state resumes log exports, Indigenous advocates warn of fallout</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/as-malaysian-state-resumes-log-exports-indigenous-advocates-warn-of-fallout/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/as-malaysian-state-resumes-log-exports-indigenous-advocates-warn-of-fallout/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Jan 2022 11:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rachel Donald]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Kalimantan, Malaysia, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Logging, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Timber, Timber Laws, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activists in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, say they fear logging will ramp up following the state government&#8217;s decision to overturn a ban on exporting unprocessed timber. The ban was imposed by the previous government in May 2018, with the aim of creating job opportunities by supporting a lumber processing industry within the state. As recently as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activists in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, say they fear logging will ramp up following the state government&#8217;s decision to overturn a ban on exporting unprocessed timber. The ban was imposed by the previous government in May 2018, with the aim of creating job opportunities by supporting a lumber processing industry within the state. As recently as April 2021, the current government indicated it supported the ban. However, on Dec. 30, 2021, the state’s chief conservator of forests, Frederick Kugan, announced that a limited export program would allow &#8220;eligible parties&#8221; to export unprocessed timber from natural forests beginning Jan. 3 this year. The return of log exports has raised fears that both legal and illegal logging will ramp up in the state. More than 80% of the state&#8217;s lowland forests have been completely or partially logged since the 1970s, but data from Global Forest Watch indicate that primary forest loss in the state has been on a decline in recent years. After peaking at 27,900 hectares (68,900 acres) in 2014, primary forest loss dropped steadily, to 10,900 hectares (26,900 acres) in 2019 and 7,600 hectares (18,800 acres) in 2020. Overall, however, the state has lost a quarter of its tree cover since 2001, and any further deforestation would put additional stress on ecosystems and Indigenous communities already affected by forest loss. Adrian Lasimbang, technical adviser for the Indigenous People’s Network of Malaysia, blasted the plan to resume exporting raw timber as “counterproductive,” saying the logging industry no longer boosts the state’s economy&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/as-malaysian-state-resumes-log-exports-indigenous-advocates-warn-of-fallout/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-251813</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/green-groups-call-for-scrapping-of-300m-loan-offer-for-borneo-road-project/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Oct 2021 04:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Business, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Deforestation, Development, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forest Fragmentation, Forest Loss, Forests, Governance, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Infrastructure, Land Rights, Logging, Natural Resources, Palm Oil, Plantations, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Roads, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sun Bears, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Transmigration, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Conservation groups are calling on the Asian Development Bank to tighten its scrutiny of a road project it plans to fund in Indonesian Borneo that may pose risks to Indigenous communities and the environment. The project, not yet approved but for which the ADB could offer a $300 million loan, aims to rehabilitate [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Conservation groups are calling on the Asian Development Bank to tighten its scrutiny of a road project it plans to fund in Indonesian Borneo that may pose risks to Indigenous communities and the environment. The project, not yet approved but for which the ADB could offer a $300 million loan, aims to rehabilitate and upgrade 280 kilometers (170 miles) of roads in the provinces of North and East Kalimantan. The Indonesian government touts the project as an effort to boost economic growth in this border region with Malaysia and further the integration of the two countries’ palm oil industries. But the plan faces mounting criticism from environmentalists from around the world, as independent research and Mongabay’s own reporting have highlighted the potential for environmental damage and social disruption to the Indigenous communities in the region. “There are thousands of hectares of unrealized [oil palm] concessions straddling the proposed roads,” Angus MacInnes, project officer at the nonprofit Forest Peoples Programme, said in a statement published Oct. 15. The planned ADB road project’s reach in Mahakam Ulu district. Image courtesy of Forest Peoples Programme. Oil palm concessions in Mahakam Ulu district. Image courtesy of Forest Peoples Programme. Industrial-scale forest clearing in recent decades — for mining, logging, and oil palm cultivation — has threatened the well-being and lives of both human and animal inhabitants throughout Indonesian Borneo. The extensive draining of the island’s peat forests to make way for agriculture has also rendered the carbon-rich soil highly susceptible to fires.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/green-groups-call-for-scrapping-of-300m-loan-offer-for-borneo-road-project/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-248314</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/highway-cutting-through-heart-of-borneo-poised-to-be-very-very-bad/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/highway-cutting-through-heart-of-borneo-poised-to-be-very-very-bad/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>23 Aug 2021 13:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sheryl Lee Tian Tong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Borneo, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, North Kalimantan, Sabah, and Sarawak]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Business, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Culture, Deforestation, Development, Ecology, Ecosystems, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forest Fragmentation, Forest Loss, Forests, Governance, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Infrastructure, Land Rights, Logging, Mammals, Natural Resources, Orangutans, Palm Oil, Plantations, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Roads, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sun Bears, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Transmigration, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every few years, stretches of Borneo’s towering dipterocarp trees fruit in a synchronized pulse. In those months, the air is rich with brown, winged fruit, which fall and spin to the forest floor. These are sites where life gathers to feast in momentary abundance: bearded pigs (Sus barbatus), sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every few years, stretches of Borneo’s towering dipterocarp trees fruit in a synchronized pulse. In those months, the air is rich with brown, winged fruit, which fall and spin to the forest floor. These are sites where life gathers to feast in momentary abundance: bearded pigs (Sus barbatus), sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and more. To get to these fruiting sites, some species trek for hundreds of kilometers. Their migration is critical to Borneo’s ecosystems, which are some of the richest in the world. They cross forests but also national borders: Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei all own parts of Borneo, making it one of the largest transboundary rainforests on the planet. A pair of sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) in a tree. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. In 2007, the three countries signed a voluntary pact to conserve one-third of its land: a mostly intact, 22-million-hectare (54-million-acre) stretch named the Heart of Borneo. Now, this agreement is breaking up as they pursue a new collective ambition: the Pan Borneo Highway, a 5,324-kilometer (3,308-mile) road network that will link Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia to Kalimantan in Indonesia, and Brunei. While the new highway could spur economic development in remote villages, it also carves into protected areas in the Heart of Borneo, opening them up for resource extraction. In particular, the roads could fast-track development of a new “oil palm belt,” with disastrous consequences for both wildlife and Indigenous people&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/highway-cutting-through-heart-of-borneo-poised-to-be-very-very-bad/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous Dayak man jailed after Indonesian palm oil firm alleges theft</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/indigenous-dayak-jailed-palm-oil-north-kalimantan/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Apr 2021 14:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian Palm Oil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Business, Conflict, Crime, Environment, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforests, Resource Conflict, Social Conflict, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — On March 10, Suande, a member of the Dayak Indigenous community in Indonesian Borneo, said goodbye to his family before leaving his village for the police station in the nearby district of Nunukan. He had been called in for questioning due to a report filed by palm oil company PT Karangjuang Hijau Lestari [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — On March 10, Suande, a member of the Dayak Indigenous community in Indonesian Borneo, said goodbye to his family before leaving his village for the police station in the nearby district of Nunukan. He had been called in for questioning due to a report filed by palm oil company PT Karangjuang Hijau Lestari (KHL), a subsidiary of FAP Agri, owned by Indonesia’s billionaire Fangiono family. KHL had accused 17 villagers of stealing palm fruit from its plantation, and while Suande wasn’t one of them, he was employed as a security guard at the plantation and police wanted to talk to him. They did more than that. Since leaving his house that day, Suande has languished in jail, taken into custody immediately after being questioned by the police. “[His family] hasn’t been able to visit him because of COVID-19,” Djayu Sukma Ifantara, a project officer at the NGO Sustainable Forestry People’s Foundation (YMKL), told Mongabay. FAP Agri said Suande was detained because he had been caught red-handedly harvesting palm fruit from the KHL plantation. It said Suande had admitted to the crime and to doing it several times. “In this matter, the company has filed a report to the police and [we will] wait and respect the ongoing legal process,” FAP Agri told Mongabay. The sudden arrest left Suande’s family and neighbors clueless as to his whereabouts; the police didn’t notify them, Djayu said. “We were looking for information because on March 10 he didn’t come home,” he said.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/indigenous-dayak-jailed-palm-oil-north-kalimantan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-242126</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Frustration over light penalties for coal mine that polluted Indonesian river</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/frustration-over-light-penalties-for-coal-mine-that-polluted-indonesian-river/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Apr 2021 10:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Della Syahni]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian coal]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Coal, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Environment, Fisheries, Governance, Law Enforcement, Mining, Pollution, Rainforests, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[After a series of coal-slurry spills into the Malinau River in Indonesian Borneo, locals and environmental groups are calling for tougher sanctions, and for national banks to divest from the coal industry. The latest spill in February at a facility operated by PT Kayan Putra Utama Coal (KPUC) in North Kalimantan province killed thousands of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[After a series of coal-slurry spills into the Malinau River in Indonesian Borneo, locals and environmental groups are calling for tougher sanctions, and for national banks to divest from the coal industry. The latest spill in February at a facility operated by PT Kayan Putra Utama Coal (KPUC) in North Kalimantan province killed thousands of fish and forced downstream municipalities to cut off their water supplies. The government of Malinau district in North Kalimantan immediately issued a decree requesting that the company repair embankments, establish a system of inspections, develop a rapid response plan, and replace the dead fish. The company itself apologized, pledging to provide clean water and reseed the river with fish and shrimp larvae. However, the Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam), a watchdog group, says these steps are not enough to exact reform. &#8220;This is not a sanction but a recommendation,&#8221; said Andri Usman of Jatam. KPUC was in 2017 required to shut down its operations for 60 days following a similar spill by another miner in the same region. That company, along with KPUC and two others, subsequently signed an agreement that if another spill occurred, their mining licenses would be revoked. &#8220;The 2017 sanctions are heavier than now, while the current impact is more severe than the 2017 case,&#8221; Usman said. Dead fish collected by locals from the polluted Malinau River. Image courtesy of Rosiena Kila. Jatam suggested the light penalty is linked to the fact that one of KPUC&#8217;s owners is a prominent businessman who&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/frustration-over-light-penalties-for-coal-mine-that-polluted-indonesian-river/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-241228</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Calls for accountability after coal-slurry spill in Indonesian river</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/calls-for-accountability-after-coal-slurry-spill-in-indonesian-river/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Feb 2021 04:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Della SyahniSapariah Saturi]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian coal and Indonesian Fisheries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Coal, Conservation, Crime, Environment, Fish, Freshwater Fish, Mining, Rainforests, Rivers, Water, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A coal-slurry spill into a river in Indonesian Borneo has killed hundreds of fish and forced authorities to shut off water lines to households. The waste-management facility at coal miner PT Kayan Putra Utama Coal’s site in North Kalimantan province was reportedly breached on the evening of Feb. 7. The slurry spilled into [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A coal-slurry spill into a river in Indonesian Borneo has killed hundreds of fish and forced authorities to shut off water lines to households. The waste-management facility at coal miner PT Kayan Putra Utama Coal’s site in North Kalimantan province was reportedly breached on the evening of Feb. 7. The slurry spilled into the Malinau River and other waterways, including the Sesayap River, home for the nearly extinct Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris). By the morning of Feb. 8, the water in the Malinau had turned brown and cloudy, and nearly a thousand dead fish were found floating on the surface, according to residents. The local water board, which pipes its water from the river, shut off its pipeline over concerns that the pollution would contaminate the area’s water supply. The water supply was cut off for two days, according to Rosiena Kila, a resident of the district of Malinau, who also shared photos on Facebook of the dead fish. She added that residents had to collect rainwater during this time. A dead fish collected by residents from the polluted Malinau River. Image courtesy of Rosiena Kila. On Feb. 10, the North Kalimantan provincial legislature issued a letter to local authorities to investigate the incident. “If it’s proven that the environmental pollution was caused by a certain company, we hope the government will certainly take an assertive move by demanding responsibility from the company — administrative, civic and criminal,” the letter, signed by councilor Hasan Basri, said. Residents say&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/calls-for-accountability-after-coal-slurry-spill-in-indonesian-river/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-239724</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indonesia’s top palm oil deforesters are the usual shady suspects: Report</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/indonesia-top-10-palm-oil-deforester-chain-reaction-research-2020/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Feb 2021 10:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Global Palm Oil, Indonesian Forests, and Indonesian Palm Oil]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, North Kalimantan, Papua New Guinea, and Southeast Asia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Business, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forests, International Trade, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Palm oil-driven deforestation is slowing down in Southeast Asia in 2020 but a handful of low-profile companies continue to drive the majority of the destruction, according to a new analysis. Using satellite imagery, sustainability risk analysis organization Chain Reaction Research (CRR) found that 58% of the 38,000 hectares (93,900 acres) of deforestation for [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Palm oil-driven deforestation is slowing down in Southeast Asia in 2020 but a handful of low-profile companies continue to drive the majority of the destruction, according to a new analysis. Using satellite imagery, sustainability risk analysis organization Chain Reaction Research (CRR) found that 58% of the 38,000 hectares (93,900 acres) of deforestation for oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea occurred in the concessions of 10 companies in Indonesia. Most of these companies also appeared in the 2018 and 2019 lists of top deforesters, and their products also end up in the supply chains of major global brands with “no deforestation, no peatland, no exploitation” (NDPE) policies. CRR said this once again highlights “both the failure of many buyers with NDPE policies to adequately implement their policies and the risk of leakage markets.” The remaining 42% of the deforestation is distributed among 112 other companies; the top three, by contrast, are responsible for 33% of the deforestation, according to the analysis, which was coordinated by research consultancy Aidenvironment and partner organization Earth Equalizer. Those top three companies are all owned by Indonesian families and account for a combined 12,635 hectares (31,200 acres) of deforestation, according to CRR — an area the size of 250,000 basketball courts. The top 10 palm oil deforesters in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea in 2020. Image courtesy of Chain Reaction Research. The palm oil player no one’s heard of At the top of the list are companies owned by a little-known businessman from Sumatra&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/indonesia-top-10-palm-oil-deforester-chain-reaction-research-2020/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-239477</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Paper giant APRIL linked to Borneo forest clearing despite zero-deforestation vow</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/pulp-paper-april-zero-deforestation-borneo-adindo-hutani-lestari/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Oct 2020 02:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Indonesian Forests]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forestry, Forests, Peatlands, Plantations, Protected Areas, Pulp And Paper, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Timber, Trees, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Pulp and paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (APRIL) has allegedly violated its own sustainability commitment by purchasing wood from a company clearing rainforest in Indonesian Borneo, according to a new report. APRIL is one of the world’s biggest producers of pulpwood, from which paper and related products are made. Since [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Pulp and paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (APRIL) has allegedly violated its own sustainability commitment by purchasing wood from a company clearing rainforest in Indonesian Borneo, according to a new report. APRIL is one of the world’s biggest producers of pulpwood, from which paper and related products are made. Since 2015 it has committed to not harvesting wood pulp from natural and peat forests. But the new report by a coalition of environmental NGOs alleges that APRIL has been sourcing some of its wood pulp from PT Adindo Hutani Lestari (AHL), a company that has cleared an area of natural forest the size of 15,000 football fields over the past five years. According to the report, at least 7,290 hectares (18,000 acres) of natural forest, half of them located in areas deemed of high conservation value (HCV) as well as carbon-rich peatland, have been cleared within AHL’s pulpwood concession in North Kalimantan province between June 3, 2015 — the date when APRIL adopted its zero-deforestation policy — and Aug. 31 this year. In its deforestation analysis, the coalition used land-cover classification maps from Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry as well as global tree cover loss data from the University of Maryland based on NASA’s Landsat satellite imagery. AHL has for the past five years been among the top five suppliers to APRIL, sending 79,000 truckloads of wood to the group’s pulp mill in central Sumatra from 2015-2019. During that period, “APRIL received or purchased&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/pulp-paper-april-zero-deforestation-borneo-adindo-hutani-lestari/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-236037</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Where the logging ends in Indonesian Borneo, the forest clearing begins</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/where-the-logging-ends-in-indonesian-borneo-the-forest-clearing-begins/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Mar 2020 10:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
					</author>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Global Forests, Great Apes, and Indonesian Forests]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Logging, Orangutans, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Logging for timber by definition reduces tree cover. But what happens when logging stops? A new study has found that in concessions where timber firms have stopped operating, deforestation actually appears to increase, thanks to illegal clearing for agriculture and industrial plantations. An inactive logging concession therefore creates a conservation risk, but also a conservation [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Logging for timber by definition reduces tree cover. But what happens when logging stops? A new study has found that in concessions where timber firms have stopped operating, deforestation actually appears to increase, thanks to illegal clearing for agriculture and industrial plantations. An inactive logging concession therefore creates a conservation risk, but also a conservation opportunity, researchers say. Many logging concessions in Indonesian Borneo harbor high densities of wildlife, such as the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) or Bornean clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi borneensis), the study found. If spotted in time, newly inactive concessions can be targeted with conservation actions that prevent further deforestation and benefit biodiversity. Bornean orangutans, pictured here in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Like all orangutans, the species is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. In general, Indonesia’s timber industry has been on a decline, and many logging concessions in the Bornean provinces of East and North Kalimantan have recently paused or stopped timber extraction, Zuzana Burivalova, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, U.S., and her colleagues observed. This piqued their interest: what was happening in the inactive concessions? To find out, the researchers looked at 170 logging concessions in East and North Kalimantan in 2018. They contacted individual concession managers and established the status of the concessions: 121 concessions, where timber was either being extracted, or was planned to be extracted in 2018, were classified as “active”; the remaining 49 concessions were deemed “inactive.” On analyzing satellite images, the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/where-the-logging-ends-in-indonesian-borneo-the-forest-clearing-begins/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-227613</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Borneo, dwindling forests face further fragmentation as roads spread</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/in-borneo-dwindling-forests-face-further-fragmentation-as-roads-spread/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Jan 2019 09:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Southeast Asian infrastructure]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, Southeast Asia, and West Kalimantan]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Development, Environment, Forest Fragmentation, Forests, Fragmentation, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Illegal Logging, Infrastructure, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Roads, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[DFFF2019]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Road projects throughout Indonesian Borneo threaten to fragment a third of the forest habitat currently accessible to the island’s wildlife, according to a new study. Completion of ongoing and planned road construction would reduce accessible wildlife habitat to 55 percent of the remaining forests in Kalimantan, as the Indonesian portion of the island [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Road projects throughout Indonesian Borneo threaten to fragment a third of the forest habitat currently accessible to the island’s wildlife, according to a new study. Completion of ongoing and planned road construction would reduce accessible wildlife habitat to 55 percent of the remaining forests in Kalimantan, as the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo is known, from the current 89 percent. The findings were published Jan. 15 in the journal Scientific Reports by a team of researchers from Indonesia and Australia. “That’s an alarming figure,” said lead author Mohammed Alamgir, an environmental scientist at James Cook University in Australia. “And it’s just the tip of the iceberg, because the new roads and rail projects will open up the forest like a flayed fish, allowing illegal colonists, poachers and miners to invade the forest and cause even more forest disruption.” Road development projects planned across Kalimantan by the Indonesian government could sharply reduce the area of forest habitats accessible to wildlife. Image courtesy of James Cook University. Using spatial analysis and satellite monitoring, the researchers evaluated large-scale road-building projects in Kalimantan under the Indonesian government’s 2011-2025 development master plan. These include an upgrade of 3,316 kilometers (2,060 miles) of the Trans-Kalimantan Highway in southern Kalimantan; 1,920 kilometers (1,190 miles) of new roads in northern Kalimantan, skirting the border with Malaysian Borneo; and additional highways and expressways throughout the provinces of Central, South, East and North Kalimantan. The report noted that the primary goal of this new infrastructure was&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/in-borneo-dwindling-forests-face-further-fragmentation-as-roads-spread/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>For indigenous kids in Indonesian Borneo, an early start to forest stewardship</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/for-indigenous-kids-in-indonesian-borneo-an-early-start-to-forest-stewardship/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Dec 2017 08:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Yovanda]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Indonesia's Forest Guardians and Indonesian Forests]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Environment, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, and Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[PUNAN ADIU, Indonesia — It’s no ordinary day here in the tiny village of Punan Adiu, tucked away in the northeastern corner of Indonesian Borneo. Devit, 9, is rushing off to school for what promises to be an exciting experience: “There’s a competition. There are people from the capital bringing gifts!” The visitors from Jakarta [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PUNAN ADIU, Indonesia — It’s no ordinary day here in the tiny village of Punan Adiu, tucked away in the northeastern corner of Indonesian Borneo. Devit, 9, is rushing off to school for what promises to be an exciting experience: “There’s a competition. There are people from the capital bringing gifts!” The visitors from Jakarta — a three-hour drive and three flights away — come bearing gifts for the kids of this tiny hamlet of 33 households, to be handed out as prizes in a unique contest at the village school. The competition, organized by Non-Timber Forest Product — Exchange Programme Indonesia (NTFP-EP), a network of NGOs and indigenous communities, centers on the food grown, gathered or hunted by local groups, in an effort to promote sustainable forest resource management. For the 109 inhabitants of Punan Adiu, a subtribe of the indigenous Dayaks of Borneo, the timing couldn’t be better, and the focus on educating the children — the next generation of guardians of the community’s forests — is crucial. The Dayak Punan prepare a meal over a fire. Photo by Vanessa Nirode. A food source under threat “We have 17,000 hectares [42,000 acres] of natural forests that can’t be touched by industry,” says Ursula a teacher at the local school. She adds that the forest is “a source of food that couldn’t be obtained in other places.” Until recently, though, the fate of Punan Adiu’s all-important forest hung in the balance. Parts of the forest were designated as areas&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/for-indigenous-kids-in-indonesian-borneo-an-early-start-to-forest-stewardship/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Extreme concern’: Report gives glimpse into scale of Kalimantan bird trade</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/extreme-concern-report-gives-glimpse-into-scale-of-kalimantan-bird-trade/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Nov 2017 04:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, Southeast Asia, and West Kalimantan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Pet Trade, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Tens of thousands of birds, many of them protected species on the brink of extinction, are being openly traded in Indonesian Borneo, in the first clear picture to emerge of the extent of the practice there. Nearly 200 stores across the region, known as Kalimantan, were found to be selling more than 25,000 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Tens of thousands of birds, many of them protected species on the brink of extinction, are being openly traded in Indonesian Borneo, in the first clear picture to emerge of the extent of the practice there. Nearly 200 stores across the region, known as Kalimantan, were found to be selling more than 25,000 birds from 148 species, according to multiple periodic field surveys carried out by the conservation group Planet Indonesia between July 2015 and February 2017. “This is the first data that we know of about the wild bird trade from Kalimantan,” said Adam Miller, the group’s executive director, in a statement announcing the findings. Some of the species discovered for sale include the Bali myna (Leucopsar rothschildi) and the black-winged myna (Acridotheres melanopterus), both of which are critically endangered; the straw-headed bulbul (Pycnonotus zeylanicus), an endangered species; and the greater green leafbird (Chloropsis sonnerati), classified as vulnerable. Rural areas in Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, host a thriving trade in wild birds, threatening the survival prospects of several species. Photo courtesy of Planet Indonesia. Miller said his team’s findings uncovered just “a fraction of the picture” of the true extent of the wild bird trade in rural Indonesia. The report, published in October, was also aimed at identifying the supply chain and the stakeholders in the practice, he added. “It is imperative that we gain an understanding of the wild bird trade in other regions of Indonesia, particularly in areas where species&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/extreme-concern-report-gives-glimpse-into-scale-of-kalimantan-bird-trade/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Merabu’s efforts to keep the carbon in its trees</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/merabus-efforts-to-keep-the-carbon-in-its-trees/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Jul 2017 00:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Yustinus S. Hardjanto]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesia's Forest Guardians and Indonesian Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Indonesia, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Culture, Ecotourism, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Lakes, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[MERABU, Indonesia &#8212; The district of Berau on Borneo island is one of the world’s largest sources of coal for power generation (it gained notoriety in 2010 in the Bakrie-Rothschild coal deal). Berau is also a national leader in Indonesia’s palm oil and pulp and paper sectors. Less famous are its manta rays, its stingless [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MERABU, Indonesia &#8212; The district of Berau on Borneo island is one of the world’s largest sources of coal for power generation (it gained notoriety in 2010 in the Bakrie-Rothschild coal deal). Berau is also a national leader in Indonesia’s palm oil and pulp and paper sectors. Less famous are its manta rays, its stingless jellyfish, its karst forests and orangutans. Five hours inland from the provincial airport sits the dazzling ecovillage of Merabu. Perched on the edge of a quarter-mile-wide, 50-meter-deep turquoise lake, Merabu is home to 200 Dayak Lebo people. The quarter-acre Lake Nyadeng drains the waters of the surrounding karst mountains. Village officials and members of the Kerima Puri community development group hope Nyadeng’s waters might be a source of income for the local economy, if they can bottle and sell it. “The water discharge rate is very high,” Kerima Puri head Asrani, who like many Indonesians goes by one name said delightedly. Water isn’t the first non-timber forest product Merabu residents have succeeded in selling either. They already sell ecotourism packages and wild forest honey. “Our ancestors taught us how to prepare honey so it doesn’t spoil,” explains  Mayjayanti, a Merabu-based schoolteacher and one of the leaders of Kerima Puri. “You have to be careful not to touch it directly with your hands. Instead you slice the honeycomb. Then you let it drain instead of pressing it.” “The forest is our storehouse,” Asrani explained.  A storehouse filled with the needs of the people: house-building materials, rattan,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/merabus-efforts-to-keep-the-carbon-in-its-trees/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Massive hydroelectricity project planned for Indonesian Borneo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/11/massive-hydroelectricity-project-planned-for-indonesian-borneo/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Nov 2016 14:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Dyna Rochmyaningsih]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Southeast Asian infrastructure]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Dams, Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Hydroelectric Power, Indigenous Peoples, Infrastructure, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Rivers, Tropical Forests, and Tropics]]>
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							<![CDATA[It seems there is always something to take from the island of Kalimantan, Indonesia. The island, also known as Borneo, has already been vastly deforested — logged and cleared, mined for coal or burned and replanted with oil palm. Now, Indonesia&#8217;s government is turning to yet another resource: hydro-power. By building a series of dams [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It seems there is always something to take from the island of Kalimantan, Indonesia. The island, also known as Borneo, has already been vastly deforested — logged and cleared, mined for coal or burned and replanted with oil palm. Now, Indonesia&#8217;s government is turning to yet another resource: hydro-power. By building a series of dams along the Kayan River, which flows along the northern part of the island, the country&#8217;s electricity authority hopes to generate 6,080 megawatts of hydroelectricity. Plans call for the construction of five dams ranging from 90 to 160 meters (295 to 525 feet) high, which are projected to affect 184,270 hectares (455,341 acres) in a remote, lightly inhabited area with large tracts of pristine forest. The project will also involve building generators, power substations, transmission lines and other associated infrastructure. The first phase of the project — a 900 megawatt dam — is slated to begin construction in February 2017 in the Peso district of North Kalimantan&#8217;s Bulungan regency. While the project has raised alarm from conservationists, it has so far generated little public outcry. Many of the areas closest to the Kayan River have already suffered deforestation, but large tracts of intact forest still stand. Map created using Map for Environment. The Kayan hydroelectric project was first reported in 2013 when then-Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Jero Wacik  announced that Chinese state-owned utility company China Power Investment (CPI) had committed to investing around $17 billion into the project. The promise of such an&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/11/massive-hydroelectricity-project-planned-for-indonesian-borneo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Has big conservation gone astray?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/04/big-conservation-gone-astray/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Apr 2016 17:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Evolving Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Borneo, Brunei, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Global, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, North Kalimantan, Sabah, Sarawak, Southeast Asia, and West Kalimantan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, Certification, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Conservation Philosophy, Controversial, Corporations, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Ecology, Economics, Ecosystem Services, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Policy, Extinction, Forest Destruction, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Greenwashing, Innovation, National Parks, Parks, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Philosophy, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Redd, Solutions, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Other stories in Mongabay&#8217;s Conservation, Divided series: Part 2: How big donors and corporations shape conservation goals Part 3: Conservation today, the old-fashioned way Part 4: Conservation&#8217;s people problem Epilogue: Conservation still divided, looking for a way forward A few months after I began working full time as an environmental journalist in 2009, I found myself [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Other stories in Mongabay&#8217;s Conservation, Divided series: Part 2: How big donors and corporations shape conservation goals Part 3: Conservation today, the old-fashioned way Part 4: Conservation&#8217;s people problem Epilogue: Conservation still divided, looking for a way forward A few months after I began working full time as an environmental journalist in 2009, I found myself in Malaysian Borneo. I spent a day with a small group of conservationists and officials driving through a seemingly endless expanse of oil palm before coming to the lower Kinabatangan River. There, Borneo&#8217;s famous wildlife — orangutans, elephants, sun bears, and clouded leopards — was squeezed into ever-shrinking pockets of habitat in the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary. Frankly, after the miles of oil palm it was hard to imagine anything bigger than a house cat surviving there, let alone herds of elephants. That night, we met informally with some World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) staff at a local guesthouse. They excitedly explained the ambitious plan of the world&#8217;s most recognizable conservation group to preserve wildlife in Borneo from an unprecedented onslaught of logging, mining, and oil palm. They handed me a glossy booklet filled with gorgeous photographs of charismatic Bornean wildlife frolicking and local people looking happy. Dubbed the Heart of Borneo project, WWF along with the three governments on the island planned to safeguard a region spreading over 23 million hectares and owned by three countries. The plan wasn&#8217;t to turn the area — larger than Great Britain — into a park, but instead into&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/04/big-conservation-gone-astray/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-186024</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New study finds insufficient degraded land for further strong oil palm expansion in Kalimantan</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/04/new-study-finds-insufficient-degraded-land-strong-oil-palm-expansion-kalimantan/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Apr 2016 10:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Azarja Harmanny]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian Forests and Indonesian Palm Oil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Degraded Lands, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Land Use Change, Palm Oil, Plantations, Primary Forests, Pulp And Paper, Rainforests, Rubber, Sustainable Forest Management, Tropical Forests, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[If demand for palm oil keeps growing the way it has been in Indonesia&#8217;s eastern Kalimantan region, there might not be enough degraded land available in 2020 to prevent further deforestation by the industry, a new study suggests. A team of researchers from two universities in the Netherlands published their findings today in the online journal GCB Bioenergy (open [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[If demand for palm oil keeps growing the way it has been in Indonesia&#8217;s eastern Kalimantan region, there might not be enough degraded land available in 2020 to prevent further deforestation by the industry, a new study suggests. A team of researchers from two universities in the Netherlands published their findings today in the online journal GCB Bioenergy (open access). In their research, the team aimed to analyze whether the production of palm oil can be reconciled with the production of other commodities, while limiting the loss of primary forest and local food production. Their research focused on the Indonesian provinces of North and East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. Because of logging, forest fires and peatland conversion, the provinces together comprise the third-largest greenhouse gas emitting region in the archipelago. The authors concluded it would only be possible to accommodate for growth of palm oil and other commodities (pulpwood, rubber and rice) under a low-growth projection, and only if mitigation measures on land sparing —the setting aside of land for biodiversity conservation — land zoning and usage of degraded lands are implemented. However, the authors find it “questionable” whether low-growth rates are “realistic for this study region,” given, for example, the expected increase of palm oil production for biodiesel, and increasing global demand for natural rubber. The scientists based their findings on regional data from multiple sources, including Indonesia’s Central Statistics Bureau (BPS) and the World Resources Institute’s Suitability Mapper webtool. The latter was used to define the amount of underutilized and degraded land&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/04/new-study-finds-insufficient-degraded-land-strong-oil-palm-expansion-kalimantan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A Borneo village maps its land to protect against encroachers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/11/a-borneo-village-maps-its-land-to-protect-against-encroachers/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2015 09:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Christopel Paino]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesia's Forest Guardians, Indonesian Forests, and Indonesian Palm Oil]]>
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							<![CDATA[One night in June 2013, the rev of a car engine caught the ear of Markus Ilun, an indigenous leader in the remote Indonesian village of Punan Adiu. He was at home in his house abutting 17,400 hectares of forest claimed by the Punan, one of the various Dayak peoples that inhabit the giant island [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[One night in June 2013, the rev of a car engine caught the ear of Markus Ilun, an indigenous leader in the remote Indonesian village of Punan Adiu. He was at home in his house abutting 17,400 hectares of forest claimed by the Punan, one of the various Dayak peoples that inhabit the giant island of Borneo. Stepping outside with the village chief, Piang Irang, Markus recognized one of the men getting out of the car. It was Perminas, head of Selatan Hilir subdistrict. Markus didn’t know Perminas’ three companions, but they were quickly introduced as representatives of oil palm companies. Markus smiled, invited the four inside, and then quickly shot off a text to villagers, alerting them that a meeting was about to take place. Dozens rushed over to join the discussion. Once everyone was seated, the reps made their pitch. “If we plant oil palm, the community will prosper,” one of the visitors declared, promising that expansion would be slow and sure, starting at 40 hectares in 2013 and topping out at 200 hectares by 2020. Villagers grumbled, unimpressed by the proposal. “Even if our people prosper,” Markus interjected, ”the fact remains we still lose our forest.” In the end, the delegation left with little to show for its appeal. Markus Ilun in his village&#8217;s customary forest. Photo by Christopel Paino New ‘weapon’ By the time the palm reps had converged to deliver their late-night proposal at Markus’ home, villagers were already busy developing a powerful new weapon&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/11/a-borneo-village-maps-its-land-to-protect-against-encroachers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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