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As Indonesia mulls moving the capital, indigenous groups fear another land grab

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 16 May 2019

Study identifies climate-resilient trees to help orangutan conservation

Taran Volckhausen 15 Mar 2019

In Borneo, dwindling forests face further fragmentation as roads spread

Basten Gokkon 22 Jan 2019

For orangutans affected by El Niño, change unfolds over time

Jim Tan 15 Jan 2019

The long journey to saving the Sumatran rhino, via Borneo (commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 20 Dec 2018

First wild Sumatran rhino in Borneo captured for breeding campaign

Basten Gokkon 29 Nov 2018

In funding palm oil giants, banks may share in ‘sins of the companies’

Tessa Toumbourou 7 Nov 2018

Deforestation-linked palm oil still finding its way into top consumer brands: report

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Sep 2018

Report finds APP and APRIL violating zero-deforestation policies with wood purchases from Djarum Group concessions in East Kalimantan

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2018

‘Empty pocket season’: Dayak women farmers grapple with the impacts of oil palm plantations

Tessa Toumbourou 20 Aug 2018

Bornean villagers who fought off a mine prepare to do battle again

Yovanda 14 Aug 2018

Indonesia turns to green finance for development projects

Basten Gokkon 25 Jun 2018

In Indonesia’s coal heartland, jaded voters weigh the ‘same old’ candidates

Tommy Apriando 25 Jun 2018
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Study puts a figure to hidden cost of community-company conflict in palm oil industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2018

Indonesia to punish state firm over litany of failures behind Borneo oil spill

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Apr 2018

Coal company fined 2 billion rupiah for illegal waste dumping in Borneo

Tommy Apriando 12 Apr 2018

Deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo spreads to the open sea

Basten Gokkon 5 Apr 2018

Indonesia investigates deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo

Basten Gokkon 3 Apr 2018

Indonesia’s dying timber concessions, invaded by oil palms, top deforestation table

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Apr 2018

Four Indonesian farmers charged in killing of orangutan that was shot 130 times

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2018

Orangutan shot 130 times in Indonesia, in second killing reported this year

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2018

‘Extreme concern’: Report gives glimpse into scale of Kalimantan bird trade

Basten Gokkon 30 Nov 2017

Government revokes 406 mining permits in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan

Yovanda 16 Nov 2017

‘Queen of Coal’ named corruption suspect in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2017

Second Irrawaddy dolphin death in Borneo linked to fishing nets

Yovanda 3 Oct 2017

‘Ecological disaster’: controversial bridge puts East Kalimantan’s green commitment to the test

Basten Gokkon 30 Aug 2017

Who owns Indonesia’s deadly abandoned coal mines?

Tommy Apriando 25 May 2017

Downstream from a coal mine, villages in Indonesian Borneo suffer from water pollution

Mongabay.com, Yustinus S. Hardjanto 23 Mar 2017

A trip on Borneo’s Mahakam River in search of forgotten wildlife

Erik Meijaard 15 Jan 2017
Adult male orangutan in Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Following in Raven’s Footsteps: 100 years of wildlife loss on Borneo

Erik Meijaard 6 Jan 2017

Lessons from the $2 billion coal mining lawsuit against Indonesia

Isabel Esterman 20 Dec 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

15 fire-linked firms escape prosecution in Indonesia’s Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 28 Jul 2016

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