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Indonesian officials charged in $1.6m bribes-for-permits scheme

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Dec 2019

Indonesia fires emitted double the carbon of Amazon fires, research shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Nov 2019

Researchers urge sustainability as palm oil tightens its grip on Latin America

Antonio José Paz Cardona 20 Nov 2019

Indonesian politician at heart of permit scandal dies ahead of graft trial

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Nov 2019

‘Timebomb’: Fires devastate tiger and elephant habitat in Sumatra

Michael Standaert 15 Nov 2019

Indonesian fire expert awarded for exposing destruction by plantation firms

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Nov 2019

FSC report on palm giant Korindo lists litany of violations, even with redactions

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Nov 2019

Democratic values that protected Indonesian rainforests now need saving, too

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 6 Nov 2019

Makers of Oreos, KitKats among brands linked to Indonesia forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Nov 2019

RSPO questions effectiveness of Indonesian palm plantation moratorium

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2019

Photos: Peatland fires rage through Indonesia’s Sumatra Island

Nopri Ismi 1 Nov 2019

A Sumatran forest community braces for battle against a planned coal mine

Suryadi 29 Oct 2019

10 takeaways from Indonesia’s grassroots #SaveAru success

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 28 Oct 2019
Peat fire in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesian court fines palm oil firm $18.5m over forest fires in 2015

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Oct 2019
Intact rainforest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia’s new cabinet a ‘marriage of oligarchs,’ environmentalists say

Basten Gokkon 23 Oct 2019

Area the size of Puerto Rico burned in Indonesia’s fire crisis

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2019
Deforestation for palm oil and mining in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Activists call for stronger environmental laws in Widodo’s second term

Basten Gokkon 21 Oct 2019

Indonesian official at center of licensing scandal charged in new case

Indra Nugraha 18 Oct 2019

Reforesting a village in Indonesia, one batch of gourmet beans at a time

Donny Iqbal 17 Oct 2019

Saving Aru: The epic battle to save the islands that inspired the theory of evolution

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 9 Oct 2019
Gold and sand mining near Mandor, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The unrecognized cost of Indonesia’s fires (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2019

Brazilian beef industry plays outsized role in tropical carbon emissions: report

Zoe Sullivan 3 Oct 2019

As wildfires roil Sumatra, some villages have abandoned the burning

Taufik Wijaya 3 Oct 2019

Indonesian enforcement questioned as fires flare up on the same concessions

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Oct 2019

Report links major brands to illegal oil palm plantation in orangutan haven

Basten Gokkon 2 Oct 2019

Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway with Mongabay’s John Cannon

Mike Gaworecki 1 Oct 2019

Indonesia defers legislation seen as harming the environment — for now

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Oct 2019

Restoring Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, one small farm at a time

Junaidi Hanafiah 30 Sep 2019

Wildfires spread to planned site of new Indonesian capital

Yovanda 26 Sep 2019

War on graft in mining, palm oil hit by new law weakening Indonesian enforcer

Hans Nicholas Jong, Lusia Arumingtyas 25 Sep 2019

For one Indonesian village, mangrove restoration has been all upside

Fathul Rakhman 24 Sep 2019

Gravely injured orangutan rescued near site of controversial hydropower project

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Sep 2019

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