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In Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, youths blend ancestral and world faiths to protect forests

Keith Anthony Fabro 14 Oct 2025
Akhyari Hananto. Courtesy of Hananto

Connecting Indonesia’s environmental stories to millions

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Oct 2025
Denica Riadini-Flesch in Indonesia. Photo by Muhammad Fadli / National Geographic

Regenerative fashion initiative in Indonesia wins 2025 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Oct 2025
Contraband goods seized by the border guard in Vinh Long province, southern Vietnam. Image courtesy of Xuan Loc/Tuổi Trẻ.

Authorities in Vietnam bust wildlife smugglers with tons of rare animal parts

Shanna Hanbury 9 Oct 2025

Indonesia eyes seagrass zoning for blue carbon; experts urge community benefits

Basten Gokkon 7 Oct 2025
Oil palm planation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

RSPO sparks NGO outrage for dismissing complaint over alleged ‘shadow companies’

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Oct 2025
A worker of a sustainable solutions company performs maintenance work on a solar panel on a roof on the island of Sumba in Indonesia.

With red tape, canceled rebates, Indonesia risks missing Chinese renewables investment

Jeff Hutton 6 Oct 2025
A Bali starling sings with its beak wide open

Indigenous-led protections spark Bali starling’s recovery in the wild

Heather Physioc 2 Oct 2025
Rainbow over Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

Just as Raja Ampat fetches UNESCO Biosphere Reserve title, nickel mining looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Oct 2025
A trash picker looks for recyclable plastics at a waste dump in Bali. Image by Jonas Gratzer for Mongabay.

Can courts combat plastic pollution? Lessons from Indonesia (commentary)

Syahriza Alkohir Anggoro 30 Sep 2025

Indonesia aims to redraw UNESCO site boundaries to allow geothermal projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Sep 2025

Study spotlights West Papua habitat as whale sharks face increased pressures

Basten Gokkon 28 Sep 2025
Heavy machinery operates at the nickel mining site of PT Kawei Sejahtera Mining on Kawe Island, Raja Ampat.

Religion at a crossroads in Indonesia as Islamic groups bid to operate large-scale mines

Ramadani Saputra 25 Sep 2025
A traditional fisher in Bali, 2013.

EV trial among Bali east coast fishers shows promise amid headwinds

Luh De Suriyani 22 Sep 2025
The cheerful faces of Wulandoni 4 Public Middle School students after harvesting sorghum in the school garden in Tapobali village.

Grassroots community seeds sorghum in eastern Indonesia to adapt to climate change

Ebed de Rosary 17 Sep 2025
Nickel mining activity in the PT IWIP industrial area in Central Halmahera.

Norway fund drops Eramet over Indonesia mine threatening forests, Indigenous tribe

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Sep 2025

Critics say FSC update risks weakening accountability for forest harm

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Sep 2025
Satellite image of Lake Chad. Image courtesy of Maxar.

Ani Dasgupta watched wetlands tame floods in Kigali. He believes nature is infrastructure we can fund.

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Sep 2025

The Great Insect Crisis

Jeremy Hance 15 Sep 2025

Indonesia reopens Raja Ampat nickel mine despite reef damage concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2025

Indonesia flooding traced to corporate canals that drain peatlands: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2025

Indonesia’s giant Java seawall plan sparks criticism & calls for alternatives

Basten Gokkon 11 Sep 2025
Vian Ruma from his Facebook page.

Vian Ruma, Indonesian activist, found dead. Aged 30.

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Sep 2025

Death of activist critical of geothermal project raises alarm in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Sep 2025
A Halmahera woman peeling coconuts for copra.

Maluku coconut growers cry crisis as Indonesia land-grabs feed energy transition

Achmad Rizki Muazam 10 Sep 2025

Indonesia prioritizes gas over renewables to meet power demand surge

Jeff Hutton 9 Sep 2025

Americans’ love of RVs tied to destruction of orangutan habitat: Investigation

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Sep 2025
A cocoa pod opened by hand. Exclusion of smallholder farmers from markets, a potential consequence of the EUDR, could result in loss of income leading to environmental harms but also exacerbate existing problems including child labor on cocoa farms. “These risks are known,” says Rainforest Alliance’s Fanny Gauttier. “That's something that we have highlighted many times.”

EUDR implementation comes laden with potential unintended consequences

Sean Mowbray 4 Sep 2025

New model reveals hidden dynamics of Indonesia’s booming songbird trade

Basten Gokkon 2 Sep 2025
Dust on the floors of residents’ houses in Teluk Sepang, Bengkulu.

Censured Sumatra coal plant blamed for sickening children in Indonesia’s Bengkulu

Elviza Diana 1 Sep 2025
Image courtesy of Burung Indonesia/Jihad.

On Java’s Mount Slamet, two former trappers find new calling as bird protectors

L. Darmawan 31 Aug 2025

Indonesia’s fish farm expansion to absorb D.C.-sized swath of protected forests

M Ambari 29 Aug 2025

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