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Norway pension fund breaks with U.K. conglomerate Jardines over endangered orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024

Indonesian gold mine expanding in ‘wrong direction’ into orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2024

Java rice farmers suffer crop failure as copper mine pollutes local irrigation

Asad Asnawi 11 Mar 2024
Many residents of Gelam Island moved to the neighboring Cempedak Island for education and health facilities.

Phantom deeds see Borneo islanders lose their land to quartz miners

Aseanty Pahlevi 7 Mar 2024
The effect is most dangerous in peatland areas like Riau province and southern Borneo, where out-of-control wildfires cause environmental destruction, excess deaths and economic losses in the billions of dollars.

Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

Suryadi 6 Mar 2024

Indonesia unveils plan to launch a satellite network for maritime monitoring

Basten Gokkon 6 Mar 2024
The people of Tebing Tinggi Okura, Riau, protest against the clarity of 20% plasma plantations for them.

Sumatra community faces up to ‘plasma’ disappointment after palm oil policy shift

Suryadi 4 Mar 2024

Indonesians uprooted by mining industry call for a fairer future amid presidential vote

Petrus Riski, Taufik Wijaya 4 Mar 2024
A chattering lory (Lorius garrulus).

Maluku farmer turns guardian of eastern Indonesia’s threatened parrots

Mahmud Ichi 27 Feb 2024
Rotten coffee in Jember as a result of the long drought in 2023.

Harsh dry season sours harvest prospects for Java coffee farmers

Moh. Tamimi 26 Feb 2024

Indonesian nickel project harms environment and human rights, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Feb 2024

With drop in illegal fishing comes rise in piracy, study in Indonesia finds

Basten Gokkon 22 Feb 2024
Jokowi visiting the location of Indonesia's new capital Nusantara with the Governor of East Kalimantan in 2019.

Indonesia to offer tax perks to companies investing in reforestation of its new capital city

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Feb 2024

Can ecotourism protect Raja Ampat, the ‘Crown Jewel’ of New Guinea?

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Feb 2024

Mini rainforest project aims to serve as Kalimantan reforestation blueprint

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Feb 2024

Reforestation of Indonesia’s new capital city stumped by haphazard planting

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024

No sea change on marine policy from candidates as Indonesia heads to polls

Basten Gokkon 13 Feb 2024
Deforestation for oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2016. Photo courtesy of Linus.

Palm oil deforestation makes comeback in Indonesia after decade-long slump

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024

Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population

Basten Gokkon 8 Feb 2024
Blacktip sharks.

In East Java, social media push against Indonesia shark & ray trade lacks bite

Asad Asnawi 8 Feb 2024
A Fejervarya iskandari

Java’s frogman reflects on half-century dive into amphibian world

Donny Iqbal 7 Feb 2024

Indonesia and Spain sign agreement to protect migrant fishing workers

Basten Gokkon 5 Feb 2024

Bid to mitigate gold mine’s impact on orangutans hit by stonewalling, data secrecy

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Feb 2024
Image by Dinesh Valke via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Freeing trees of their liana load can boost carbon sequestration in tropical forests

Mark Hillsdon 1 Feb 2024
Officers sort waste at a waste processing site in Bogor City, West Java.

Communities on troubled Java river mold future from plastic waste

Donny Iqbal 1 Feb 2024
The length of the newly described stick insect can reach up to 35 cm (13.7 in).

In eastern Indonesia, a child adventurer discovers a new giant stick insect

Ebed de Rosary 31 Jan 2024
The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesian utility PLN ordered to disclose coal plants’ emissions data

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jan 2024

Mangrove crab sustainability is vital for fishers in Indonesia’s Aru Islands

Ridzki R. Sigit 31 Jan 2024

Indonesia invites Turkish investors to develop tuna farms in Papua

Basten Gokkon 30 Jan 2024
Oil palm estate and rainforest in Malaysian Borneo.

New tool aims to help palm oil firms comply with deforestation regulations

Abhishyant Kidangoor 26 Jan 2024
Pandang on the road, going to the river.

Jokowi’s land reform agenda stalls as conflicts nearly double, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2024
Marmi, a rice farmer, is monitoring the development of rice as the planting season approaches in Buru's Waeapo village.

Maluku farmers sweat El Niño drought as Indonesia rice prices surge

Jaya Barends 25 Jan 2024

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