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Green labeler PEFC under fire for certifying Indonesian firm clearing orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Dec 2025
An Indigenous person gazes at the expanse of the Meratus mountains from the Hauk peak.

Indigenous Dayak resist new southern Borneo national park amid global protection deficit

Riyad Dafhi Rizki, Rendy Tisna 19 Nov 2025
Bambang Hero Saharjo and Basuki Wasis, two environmental experts from IPB University, after the first hearing of their lawsuit against their testimony at the Cibinong District Court,

Indonesia court clears wildfire scientists in case brought by palm oil company

Rendy Tisna 17 Oct 2025

Study maps rare Borneo forests with unique habitats & urgent need for protection

Basten Gokkon 13 Aug 2025
A Dayak Ngaju tribe man tries to extinguish fire on burning peatland in Mantangai, Central Kalimantan.

Indonesian palm oil company sues experts who helped secure $18m pollution ruling

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jul 2025
A Dayak Ngaju tribe man tries to extinguish fire on burning peatland in Mantangai, Central Kalimantan.

In Borneo village, Indigenous Dayaks leave farming amid stricter fire rules

Rendy Tisna 24 Apr 2025

Indonesia’s peatlands face growing flood risks amid widespread degradation

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Apr 2025

‘Sustainable’ palm oil firms continue illegal peatland clearing despite permit revocation

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Mar 2025
Ignatius Tondi, a Mekar Raya resident.

Indigenous Dayak community makes strides on Borneo toward forest autonomy

Aseanty Pahlevi 26 Feb 2025

Satellite data detect appearance of new roads in primary forests in Borneo

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Nov 2024

Using regenerative agriculture to heal the land and help communities: Q&A with Kaleka founder Silvia Irawan

Louise Hunt 12 Nov 2024
Handils are the boundaries of fields as well as paths for transportation and waters to fish in.

Borneo’s Dayak adapt Indigenous forestry to modern peat management

Titik Kartitiani 25 Jun 2024

Pro-business parties accused of holding back Indonesia’s Indigenous rights bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 May 2024
Army officers try to extinguish fires in peatland areas in Central Kalimantan.

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2024

Small farmers caught in Indonesia’s war on wildfires

Aseanty Pahlevi, Victor Fidelis Sentosa 14 Dec 2023

Traditional small farmers burned by Indonesia’s war on wildfires

Philip Jacobson, Aseanty Pahlevi, Hans Nicholas Jong, Yusie Marie, M Rahim Arza 14 Dec 2023

As fire season worsens, Indonesian activists report four companies for burning

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2023

Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2023

Indonesia awards biggest Indigenous forest claim yet to Bornean Dayaks

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Sep 2023

Migrating orangutan males imitate locals to learn about food: Study

Basten Gokkon 19 Jul 2023
Protest action in front of the PT BGA office demanding the release of the criminalized farmers.

Civil society changes up campaign against jailed Kalimantan farmers

Richaldo Hariandja 10 Jul 2023
An elephant roams through a recently cleared eucalyptus plantation.

Report links paper giant RGE to Indonesia deforestation despite pledges

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jul 2023

High-carbon peat among 1,500 hectares cleared for Indonesia’s food estate

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Apr 2023

Report: Indonesia’s ‘food estate’ program repeating failures of past projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Apr 2023

Indonesia’s Supreme Court rules President Widodo not liable in 2015 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Nov 2022
Ledan holding ironwood saplings

After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists

Budi Baskoro, Lusia Arumingtyas 14 Sep 2022
A male orangutan in Indonesian Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Deforestation in Borneo threatens one in four orangutans, study says

Basten Gokkon 26 Jul 2022

Plantations threaten Indonesia’s orangutans, but they’re not oil palm

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jul 2022
Fire in Indonesia forest

As dry season starts in Indonesia, risk of fires — and haze — looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jul 2022

‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom

Mongabay | The Gecko Project | BBC News 23 May 2022

Lack of resolution mechanisms allow palm oil conflicts to fester in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Nov 2021

Palm oil firm that dried out its land held not liable for fires that followed

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2021

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