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Legal defeats pile up for palm oil companies stripped of permits in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2022
Yadi, a member of the Menapo House

Saving medicinal plants a village cause in Indonesia

Warief Djajanto Basorie, Yitno Suprapto 26 May 2022

U.N., rights groups flag potential violations in $3b Indonesian tourism project

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 May 2022
The endangered manta ray

For reef mantas, Indonesia’s Komodo National Park is a ray of hope

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 May 2022

‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom

Mongabay, The Gecko Project, BBC News 23 May 2022

Easing of crackdown sees Vietnam boats encroach into Indonesian waters

Basten Gokkon, Yogi Eka Sahputra 20 May 2022

Slick operator: Indonesian cooking oil probe may spread to biodiesel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 May 2022
A pink-headed fruit dove.

‘It’s just a bird’: Online platforms selling lesser-known Indonesian species

Sean Mowbray 17 May 2022
Highlining, an outdoor activity that helps with conservation efforts, in the Karst Citatah area, Padalarang, West Java. Image by Donny Iqbal/Mongabay.

Environment award stokes urge to save Indonesia’s karst landscape

Donny Iqbal, Warief Djajanto Basorie 16 May 2022

Small-island fishers petition Indonesian president to end coastal dredging

Suryadi 13 May 2022
Coal mining in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Banks bet big on coal in Indonesia, bucking global shift away from fossil fuel

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 May 2022
A group of traditional fishermen in small boats catching fish in the waters of Maluku.

Indonesia cancels fisheries infrastructure projects in Maluku region amid lack of funds

Nurdin Tubaka 11 May 2022

She’s here! Rare Sumatran rhino calf born at rhino sanctuary

Mike DiGirolamo 11 May 2022
Rainforest in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Indonesia’s revocation of palm oil, mining permits marred by ‘maladministration’

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2022

Fisher groups are the marine militia in Indonesia’s war on illegal fishing

Basten Gokkon 6 May 2022
Coral reef in Indonesia

For more fish and healthier coral in Bali, focus on communities and connectivity: Study

Carolyn Cowan 6 May 2022
Iban dugout canoes on the Utik river in Sungai Utik's customary forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian government lagging independent effort to recognize Indigenous lands

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 May 2022
Members of the Pokdarwis Tramena and Pokmaswas Gili Mantra project in Gili Trawangan carry out essential maintenance and monitoring activities monthly.

Community-led coral restoration project is rare hit amid slew of misses in Indonesia

Aimee Gabay 4 May 2022

Indonesia to probe scale of tax-dodging illegal oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 May 2022

A seagrass restoration project to preserve the past may also protect the future

Basten Gokkon 3 May 2022

Court setback doesn’t sway Indonesian villagers fighting a mining firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2022
A model artesian well that ICRAF installed in Winongan, Pasuruan district. The well is equipped with a valve for more efficient water use.

Better deep-bore wells aim to stop Indonesia’s groundwater waste

Asad Asnawi 28 Apr 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022
Emergent rainforest tree in Malaysia

Asia’s troubled trees need better conservation to reach restoration goals: Study

Carolyn Cowan 26 Apr 2022

With ban on palm oil exports, Indonesia reaps condemnation and praise

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2022
In addition to playing an active role in building Rammang-rammang as a nature tourism center, Iwan Dento is also active in promoting organic agriculture.

Iwan Dento, ‘hero’ of South Sulawesi’s karst mountains

Wahyu Chandra 25 Apr 2022

Coal miner Bayan sues Indonesian investment chief over loss of land

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2022

Data show decline in Indonesian fish stocks amid push for higher productivity

Basten Gokkon 22 Apr 2022

Mine pits expose the holes in Indonesia’s plan to relocate its capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Apr 2022
A Komodo dragon.

‘No’ to corporate-driven tourism development in Komodo National Park (commentary)

Venansius Haryanto 19 Apr 2022
Oil palm kernels

Indonesian trade official, palm oil execs charged in cooking oil crisis

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2022

Plan to carve up Indonesian Papua rings alarm over fate of people and forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Apr 2022

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