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How Indonesian companies dodge fines for forest & peatland fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Aug 2025

NASA satellites show surge in Indonesia hotspots as 2025 fires send smoke to Malaysia

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Aug 2025

As Indonesia reclaims forests from palm oil, smallholders bear brunt of enforcement

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jul 2025
Akit tribe residence, Titi Akar Village, North Rupat, Bengkalis, Riau, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Nukila Evanty.

Indonesia’s Indigenous Akit community faces exploitation & land loss (commentary)

Alberta Christina Cahya Pertiwi and Nukila Evanty 21 Mar 2025
A captive Sumatran tiger.

Volunteer radio station brings old media to remote Sumatran tiger habitat

Suryadi 18 Feb 2025

Satellite data show bursts of deforestation continue in Indonesian national park

Spoorthy Raman 30 Nov 2024

Sumatra pulp & paper giants violate zero-deforestation pledge, activists allege

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2024
Fire fighters cooling burnt peatlands.

Floods set to worsen on Sumatra peat as landscape gives way

Suryadi 30 May 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
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

Indonesian palm oil firm fined for fires sues expert a second time over testimony

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Jan 2024
Indonesia is a top producer of coconut oil.

Indonesian districts trial a shift from commodity monocrops to sustainable produce

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2023

Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Oct 2023

Sumatran Indigenous seafarers run aground by overfishing and mangrove loss

Suryadi, Tonggo Simangunsong 23 Oct 2023

Report: Half of plantations in Indonesia’s palm oil heartland are illegal

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Oct 2023

Experts slam massive ‘discount’ in fines for Indonesian palm oil billionaire

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Sep 2023

Indonesian regulator gets 12 years’ jail for palm oil permit bribery

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2023

Indonesia permit payoff raises alarm about palm oil industry corruption

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Aug 2023
A firefighter puts out fires in a peatland in Indonesia.

With El Niño likely, Indonesia’s volunteer firefighters gear up — with new gear

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 Jul 2023
Batin Irasan, the village’s ketua adat, or spiritual leader.

Sumatra Indigenous community displaced by Samsung palm oil unit await justice

Suryadi 6 Jun 2023

Indonesian palm oil billionaire gets 15 years for corruption

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Feb 2023
A local fisherman pushing his canoe in the polluted waters.

Fishers on Indonesia’s Batam Island suffer as mangrove cover declines

Yogi Eka Sahputra 16 Jan 2023
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

As dry season looms, Sumatra villagers hope their peat restoration pays off

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Dec 2022

Trial of palm oil tycoon Surya Darmadi begins in Jakarta

Mongabay Haze Beat 8 Sep 2022
Hutan Keramat Penyabungan

Encircled by plantations, a Sumatran Indigenous community abides changing times

Suryadi 22 Aug 2022

Nearness to roads and palm oil mills a key factor in peatland clearing by smallholders

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Aug 2022

In Indonesia’s forest fire capital, the dry season brings yet more burning

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Aug 2022
Sadikin

A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatra’s forest fire ‘hell’

Suryadi 1 Aug 2022
Fire in Indonesia forest

As dry season starts in Indonesia, risk of fires — and haze — looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jul 2022

Satellites show deforestation surging in Indonesia’s Tesso Nilo National Park

Zamzami｜Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Jun 2022

Small-island fishers petition Indonesian president to end coastal dredging

Suryadi 13 May 2022

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 May 2022

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