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How local elites earn money from burning land in Indonesia

Alice Cuddy 16 Jan 2017

Parents who say Indonesia’s haze killed their children testify in citizen suit

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 Nov 2016

Indonesia’s oil palm plantations are rife with spitting cobras

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 6 Oct 2016

Indonesia seeks foreign funds to aid peat restoration drive

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Sep 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesian police arrest hundreds in connection to burning land

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian parliament to investigate fire-linked firms in Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Aug 2016

Smoke from Indonesia’s fires begins to drift into Malaysia

Mongabay Haze Beat 17 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Company ordered to pay record $76m over fires in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

15 fire-linked firms escape prosecution in Indonesia’s Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 28 Jul 2016
Deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

New initiative to further creation of a single map in Indonesia’s Riau

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2016

Indonesia declares national park in top palm oil-producing province

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2016

Haze epicenter receives environmental award in Indonesia

Aria Danaparamita 23 Jul 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Fires begin to appear en masse as Indonesia’s burning season gets going

Mongabay Haze Beat 8 Jul 2016

Another pulp and paper supplier suspended for role in Indonesian haze crisis

Mongabay.com 15 Apr 2016

Companies asked to pitch in to Indonesia’s peat restoration drive as early fires flare in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 8 Apr 2016

Baby orangutan poachers get 2.5 years in Sumatra

Rahmadi Rahmad 25 Mar 2016

Indonesia’s oil palm maps remain hidden from public view. Why?

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2016

Indonesia hustles to preempt new round of haze-causing fires

Mongabay Haze Beat 18 Mar 2016

Emergency declared as fires reappear in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 15 Mar 2016

Indonesia’s peat peninsula being drained into oblivion, study finds

Loren Bell 24 Feb 2016
Peatlands cleared for a plantation in Riau Province in 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Team of 6: the leadership of Indonesia’s peatlands restoration agency is now in place

Sapariah Saturi 23 Feb 2016

With haze threatening return, Indonesian forestry giant pushes peatlands restoration model

4 Feb 2016
Wood fiber concession on recently cleared peatland in Riau Province, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia appoints conservationist to save country’s declining peatlands

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jan 2016

Scientists turn up haze heat on Indonesia ahead of COP21 Paris talks

Mongabay Haze Beat 25 Nov 2015

Riau emergency status to end as S. Sumatra pledges peat clampdown

Mongabay Haze Beat 24 Nov 2015

Haze compensation to poor stalls as Indonesia spends on new palm oil cartel

Mongabay Haze Beat 23 Nov 2015

VP Kalla fans flames in Manila as Indonesia presses on with water bombing

Mongabay Haze Beat 18 Nov 2015

From fires to floods: Indonesia’s disaster agency prepares for rain

Mongabay Haze Beat 17 Nov 2015

Singapore calls end of haze this year as Indonesia continues to push peat plans

Mongabay Haze Beat 16 Nov 2015
Picture courtesy of Greenpeace.

Jokowi turning over a new leaf for Indonesia on haze but details still foggy

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Nov 2015

Many Indonesia fires smoulder but danger is far from over

Mongabay Haze Beat 10 Nov 2015

Indonesian NGO takes aim at government for failure to handle haze

Mongabay Haze Beat 9 Nov 2015

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