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Forest in West Papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Palm oil giant Korindo silences critical report with cease-and-desist letter

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Sep 2019

‘We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president says as fire crisis deepens

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Sep 2019

A Papuan village finds its forest caught in a web of corporate secrecy

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 16 Sep 2019

On an island coveted by miners, villagers prepare to raise a ruckus

Ian Morse 13 Sep 2019

Indonesian minister draws fire for denial of transboundary haze problem

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2019

Photos: Forest fires rage on Sumatra oil palm concessions

Elviza Diana 11 Sep 2019

Diplomatic row heats up as haze from Indonesian fires threatens Malaysia

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2019
Google Earth satellite image showing a forest fragment in a deforested landscape in Rondonia, Brazil.

Connected forests key to more sustainable palm oil industry: report

Lauren Crothers 5 Sep 2019

Indonesian court cancels dam project in last stronghold of tigers, rhinos

Junaidi Hanafiah 2 Sep 2019

A remote Indonesian district juggles road building with nature conservation

Basten Gokkon 29 Aug 2019

Indonesia bans food labeled ‘palm oil-free,’ in move welcomed by industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2019

Indonesia picks coal and oil heartland as site of new capital city

Basten Gokkon 26 Aug 2019

Sumatran elephant sanctuary under threat from bridge, port projects

Taufik Wijaya 26 Aug 2019
Newly established oil palm plantation in Central Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

81% of Indonesia’s oil palm plantations flouting regulations, audit finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Aug 2019
Oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia eyes palm oil export boost to China amid mounting U.S. trade war

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Aug 2019

Indonesia forest-clearing ban is made permanent, but labeled ‘propaganda’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Aug 2019

Indonesian flooding disaster bears the hallmarks of agriculture and mining impacts

Ian Morse 7 Aug 2019

Haze from fires, Indonesia’s national ‘embarrassment,’ are back

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Aug 2019

Red flags as Indonesia eyes relocating its capital city to Borneo

Basten Gokkon 2 Aug 2019

Forest loss threatens territorial gibbons in southern Borneo

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2019
Traditional Iban tattoos on a Dayak leader's back. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Travelogue: Visiting an indigenous rainforest tribe in Borneo (Insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2019
A pile of wood that has been prepared to be burned in land controlled by Korindo in Papua. Photo courtesy of Mighty Earth

FSC to keep Korindo in the fold, for now

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2019

Top court holds Indonesian government liable over 2015 forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jul 2019

Fears over Indonesian president’s demand for unfettered investment

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Jul 2019

Orangutan habitats being cleared in areas near palm oil mills, report finds

Loren Bell 17 Jul 2019

Indonesian governor latest official busted for bribes in environmental case

Indra Nugraha 12 Jul 2019
Road running through drained and burned peatlands. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

‘Dangerous’ new regulation puts Indonesia’s carbon-rich peatlands at risk

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2019

In Indonesia, a land ‘left behind’ weighs its development alternatives

Ian Morse 9 Jul 2019

Travelogue: Ground-truthing satellite data in Borneo (Insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jul 2019
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

An Indonesian forest community grapples with the arrival of the outside world

Rod Harbinson 1 Jul 2019
Iban dugout canoes on the Utik river in Sungai Utik's customary forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indigenous Iban community defends rainforests, but awaits lands rights recognition

Aseanty Pahlevi, Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jul 2019

Customary land map, a first for Indonesia, launches to mixed reception

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jun 2019

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