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Indonesia’s giant Java seawall plan sparks criticism & calls for alternatives

Basten Gokkon 11 Sep 2025

New model reveals hidden dynamics of Indonesia’s booming songbird trade

Basten Gokkon 2 Sep 2025
Image courtesy of Burung Indonesia/Jihad.

On Java’s Mount Slamet, two former trappers find new calling as bird protectors

L. Darmawan 31 Aug 2025

Rare Javan leopard sighting renews focus on conservation, monitoring efforts

Basten Gokkon, Falahi Mubarok 22 Aug 2025
In Java, communities help reconnect fragmented forests to help save the endangered Javan gibbon

Indonesian farmers plant hope for isolated Javan gibbons

Mongabay.com 1 Aug 2025

Batang coal plant’s seawater permit imperils marine life, fishing communities

Basten Gokkon 26 Jul 2025
Sarmi, a resident of Gupit village, Nguter district, who is a representative of residents in a class action lawsuit against PT. RUM, which caused pollution. Her house was decorated with murals in solidarity as a sign of the residents' struggle.

Central Java villages take fast fashion to the cleaners at Indonesia’s Supreme Court

T. Handoko 26 May 2025
Women in Timbul Seloko village, Central Java, help with the permeable dam project.

In an ancient Javanese sultanate, coastal women battle climate fallout

Irfan Maulana 16 Apr 2025

Illegal seabed dredging surges as Indonesia resumes sand exports

M Ambari, Yogi Eka Sahputra 20 Feb 2025

Javan fisherwomen lead fight against marine dredging amid fears of damage

Basten Gokkon 10 Oct 2024

Indonesian activist freed in hate speech case after flagging illegal shrimp farms

Basten Gokkon 22 May 2024

Indonesian court jails environmentalist for flagging illegal farms in marine park

Basten Gokkon 4 Apr 2024

Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2024

Finance and support are key to fishers adopting eco-friendly gear, study shows

Basten Gokkon 3 Jan 2024

Iconic Indonesian raptor still threatened by habitat degradation, isolation

Basten Gokkon 12 Dec 2023
Fishers unload cantrang nets

Small-scale fishers in Indonesian isles flag use of banned net by outsiders

Moh. Tamimi 7 Sep 2023

Indonesian illegal shark and ray exports remain rampant amid poor monitoring

Asad Asnawi 8 Aug 2023
A Javan hawk-eagle on a branch

Indonesia foresters hope Garuda poachers turn gamekeepers

L. Darmawan 11 Oct 2022

Ban on use of destructive net fails to make an impact in Indonesia, experts say

Basten Gokkon, Yogi Eka Sahputra 20 Jul 2022

In restoring polluted rivers, Indonesia looks at restocking endemic fish

Basten Gokkon, L. Darmawan 12 Jul 2022

Crackdown on villagers highlights heavy hand of Indonesia’s ‘strategic’ projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Feb 2022

Can the little-known tamanu tree replace palm oil in Indonesia’s biofuel bid?

Nuswantoro 9 Feb 2022

Worked to death: How a Chinese tuna juggernaut crushed its Indonesian workers

Philip Jacobson, Basten Gokkon, Taufik Wijaya, Seulki Lee, Makoto Watanabe, Annelise Giseburt 13 Sep 2021

Coastal Indonesian village adapts to life amid rising tidal floodwaters

Nuswantoro 5 Aug 2021

Javan leopards, the dwindling ‘guardians’ of Java’s forests

Erik Hoffner 19 Jul 2021

Relocating mangroves for Indonesian highway ‘not that easy,’ expert warns

L. Darmawan 4 May 2021

Java’s mangroves pay a high price for stopping plastic flowing out to sea

Julia John 5 Apr 2021

The women of Kendeng set their feet in cement to stop a mine in their lands. This is their story.

Febriana Firdaus 13 Nov 2020

Arrests in Indonesian probe into latest case of labor abuses on Chinese fishing boats

Basten Gokkon 28 Jul 2020

Indonesia’s $300m geothermal play risks being undercut by cheap coal

Basten Gokkon 19 Jun 2020

Indonesian levee project serves industry over community, study says

Basten Gokkon 22 May 2020

Hundreds protest pollution from coal-fired power plant in Java

L. Darmawan 4 Oct 2019

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