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Children are invited to guess the type of medicinal plant from its aroma.

Sumatra community school hands down ancient knowledge to modern generation

Teguh Suprayitno 7 Aug 2024

Analysis: Michelin’s no-deforestation claims in Indonesia rubber plantation a stretch

Stefano Valentino 30 May 2024
A worker at a rubber plantation at PT Alam Lestari Nusantara. Image by Rubber tapping workers at PL ALN.

Desperation sets in for Indigenous Sumatrans who lost their forests to plantations

Teguh Suprayitno 9 May 2024

Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Oct 2023
A stream in a forest in Jambi.

In Sumatra’s Jambi, community forest managers fish to protect peatlands

Lili Rambe 2 Aug 2023
A Sumatran elephant in South Sumatra.

Elephant encounters rattle farmers in Indonesia’s Jambi province

Yitno Suprapto 1 Aug 2023

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Jaka Hendra Baittri 6 Jun 2023
Separating the oil palm fruit.

Cycling oil palm biomass waste back into the soil can boost soil health, study says

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 22 May 2023

Trapping holds back speed of bird recovery in a Sumatran forest, study shows

Basten Gokkon 11 May 2023

Sumatran conservationist Rahmad Saleh Simbolon dies at 47

Elviza Diana, Lili Rambe 29 Aug 2022
A farmer in a village in the Kerinci region.

A conservation failure in Sumatra serves a cautionary tale for PES schemes

Cassie Freund 30 Jun 2022

Draining tropical peatlands for oil palms isn’t just bad — it’s unnecessary, study shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2022
Yadi, a member of the Menapo House

Saving medicinal plants a village cause in Indonesia

Warief Djajanto Basorie, Yitno Suprapto 26 May 2022

Starving and injured Sumatran tiger dies in captivity, Indonesian officials report

Lili Rambe 10 Nov 2021

Paper giants’ expansion plans raise fears of greater deforestation in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2021

Build around the forest, not through it, study says of Sumatra trucking road

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Sep 2021

Indonesian pulpwood firms told to protect peat are doing the opposite: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Aug 2021

‘Hungry’ palm oil, pulpwood firms behind Indonesia land-grab spike: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Feb 2021

Planned coal-trucking road threatens a forest haven for Sumatran frogs

Elviza Diana, Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jan 2021

Coal stockpiles threaten public health, ancient temple, in Indonesian village

Yitno Suprapto 23 Nov 2020

Oil palm plantations in Sumatran watershed worsen flooding in communities

Basten Gokkon 11 Sep 2020
Sumatran elephants. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia approves coal road project through forest that hosts tigers, elephants

Elviza Diana 13 Jul 2020

Calls for end to business with paper giant APP over Sumatra land disputes

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2020

Conflict between Indonesian villagers, pulpwood firm flares up over crop-killing drone

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Apr 2020

As Indonesia fights COVID-19, warmer temperatures drive up dengue cases

Yitno Suprapto 16 Apr 2020

In Sumatra, an indigenous plea to stop a coal road carving up a forest

Elviza Diana 8 Apr 2020

Coronavirus, trawls take a toll on shrimp fishery in Indonesia’s Jambi

Elviza Diana 25 Feb 2020

Indonesian palm oil firm hit with $1.8m fine for 2015 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Dec 2019

Photos: Forest fires rage on Sumatra oil palm concessions

Elviza Diana 11 Sep 2019

A tiger refuge in Sumatra gets a reprieve from road building

Rod Harbinson 31 Aug 2019

A forest beset by oil palms, logging, now contends with a coal-trucking road

Elviza Diana 28 May 2019

In Sumatra, a lone elephant leads rescuers on a cat-and-mouse chase

Cory Rogers, Lili Rambe 23 Jan 2019

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