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Indigenous group faces eviction for ‘New Bali’ tourism project in Sumatra

Tonggo Simangunsong 25 Oct 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2021
A siamang in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In Bali, prominent official faces backlash over illegal pet gibbon

Luh De Suriyani 7 Oct 2021

Indonesia investigates alleged abuse of Sumatran tigers at city zoo

Ayat S. Karokaro 5 Oct 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Sep 2021

As tigers dwindle, Indonesia takes aim at poaching ring

Junaidi Hanafiah 27 Sep 2021

Remnant forests struggle to survive amid oil palm plantations, study shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Sep 2021

Captive breeding of Sumatran rhinos: Where the program stands today

Mongabay 31 Aug 2021

Mother tiger and her cubs found dead in Sumatran forest

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Aug 2021

To count Sumatran rhinos in the wild, look for their poop, study says

Basten Gokkon 24 Aug 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Aug 2021

Climate change threatens to squeeze out Indonesia’s medicinal plants

Basten Gokkon 18 Aug 2021

Lack of ID cards bars Indigenous Indonesians from much-needed vaccines

Elviza Diana, Sapariah Saturi, Yitno Suprapto 4 Aug 2021

Acquittal of Indonesian villagers protesting pollution marks rare win against SLAPP

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Aug 2021
A man taps into a frankincense tree to extract the yellowish resin out of it in the customary forest of the Pandumaan-Sipituhuta Indigenous community in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Image by Barita News Lumbanbatu/Mongabay Indonesia.

For an Indigenous group in Sumatra, a forest regained is being lost once more

Barita News Lumbanbatu 27 Jul 2021
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo in 2019. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Local leaders in Indonesia make forest and peatland protection pledge

Taufik Wijaya 15 Jul 2021

Indonesian fishers seize dredging boat in protest against offshore tin mining

Basten Gokkon 13 Jul 2021

Activists take Indonesia’s mining law to court, but don’t expect much

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jul 2021

Study warns of impacts of unregulated trade in Indonesian porcupines

Basten Gokkon 30 Jun 2021

Development of third Sumatran rhino sanctuary advances to save species

Junaidi Hanafiah 25 Jun 2021

Deforestation of orangutan habitat feeds global palm oil demand, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jun 2021

Never too late to save Earth: Q&A with Leuser forest guardian Rudi Putra

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Jun 2021

Environmental benefits or social — but rarely both — under RSPO, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Jun 2021

Land dispute turns violent as Sumatran Indigenous groups clash with pulpwood firm

Ayat S. Karokaro 17 Jun 2021

Tin mines close in on an Indonesian hamlet still clinging to nature

Taufik Wijaya 16 Jun 2021

From Flores to Papua: Meet 10 of Indonesia’s mangrove guardians

Loren Bell 1 Jun 2021

An owl not seen in over a century makes a brief return — then vanishes again

Romi Castagnino 13 May 2021

Death toll rises to 10 after landslide at dam site in orangutan habitat

Ayat S. Karokaro 7 May 2021

Deadly landslide hits Indonesian dam project in orangutan habitat, again

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Apr 2021

Sumatran rhinos show low inbreeding — but when it happens, collapse is quick

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2021

Illegal coal mine tunnels threaten a Sumatran village

Jaka Hendra Baittri 19 Apr 2021

In Sumatra, a vulnerable, ‘mythical’ wild goat lives an unknown life

Ian Morse 31 Mar 2021

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