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Study: Indonesia’s ambitious peat restoration initiative severely underfunded

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Mar 2018

In a land untouched by mines, indigenous holdouts fight a coal invasion

Ian Morse 28 Mar 2018

Five years after zero-deforestation vow, little sign of progress from Indonesian pulp giant

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2018

Activists eye bigger roles for local officials, businesses in Indonesia’s orangutan protection plan

Basten Gokkon 15 Mar 2018
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical deforestation: the need for a strategy adjustment (commentary)

Dan Nepstad 8 Mar 2018

Indonesia braces for return of fire season as hotspots flare up

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Feb 2018

Four Indonesian farmers charged in killing of orangutan that was shot 130 times

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2018

What is happening to the orangutans of Borneo?

Basten Gokkon 15 Feb 2018

Faith in the forest helps Indonesia’s Dayaks keep plantations, loggers at bay

Hans Nicholas Jong, Indra Nugraha 8 Feb 2018

Orangutan shot 130 times in Indonesia, in second killing reported this year

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2018

Indonesian rubber farmers charged in gruesome killing of Bornean orangutan

Basten Gokkon 2 Feb 2018

Decapitated orangutan found near palm plantations shot 17 times, autopsy finds

Basten Gokkon 19 Jan 2018

Orangutan found tortured and decapitated prompts Indonesia probe

Mongabay.com 16 Jan 2018

Indonesia in 2017: A fighting chance for peat protection, but an infrastructure beatdown for indigenous communities

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jan 2018

For indigenous kids in Indonesian Borneo, an early start to forest stewardship

Yovanda 19 Dec 2017

Activists seek protection for Indonesia’s karst amid building boom pressure

Tommy Apriando 5 Dec 2017

‘Extreme concern’: Report gives glimpse into scale of Kalimantan bird trade

Basten Gokkon 30 Nov 2017

Indonesia to kick off 10-year plan to save critically endangered helmeted hornbill

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Nov 2017

Government revokes 406 mining permits in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan

Yovanda 16 Nov 2017

Indonesian president recognizes land rights of nine more indigenous groups

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2017

The fate of the Sumatran rhino is in the Indonesian government’s hands

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2017

A roar for nature in Indonesia: Q&A with the poet behind ‘Indigenous Species’

Basten Gokkon 30 Oct 2017

Helmeted hornbill, on verge of extinction, finds respite in new zone outside of known range

Basten Gokkon 23 Oct 2017

‘Queen of Coal’ named corruption suspect in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2017

Second Irrawaddy dolphin death in Borneo linked to fishing nets

Yovanda 3 Oct 2017

Does social forestry always decrease deforestation and poverty? (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 17 Sep 2017

80% of Bornean orangutans live outside protected areas

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Sep 2017

‘Ecological disaster’: controversial bridge puts East Kalimantan’s green commitment to the test

Basten Gokkon 30 Aug 2017

Borneo’s ‘biocultural holocaust’: an interview with author Alex Shoumatoff

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Jun 2017

‘Communities should be involved from the beginning’: Kalimantan villagers demand development plans respect their needs

Indra Nugraha 14 Jun 2017

Governor halts work on coal railway being built without permits in Indonesian Borneo

Indra Nugraha, Luisa Arumingtyas, R. Sahala, Sapariah Saturi 30 May 2017

Who owns Indonesia’s deadly abandoned coal mines?

Tommy Apriando 25 May 2017

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