Indonesian Forests News

A captive Sumatran tiger.

Volunteer radio station brings old media to remote Sumatran tiger habitat

Suryadi 18 Feb 2025

Groundwater may play key role in forest fires

Sandhya Sekar 16 Jun 2017

Mangrove loss threatens migratory shorebird route in North Sumatra

Ayat S. Karokaro 15 Jun 2017

Lobby groups drop lawsuit against Indonesian environment law

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi 15 Jun 2017

Papuan clan leader laments influx of migrants to sacred Cyclops Mountains

Christopel Paino 14 Jun 2017

Norway bans government purchasing of palm oil biofuel

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Jun 2017

‘Give us back our land’: paper giants struggle to resolve conflicts with communities in Sumatra

Alice Cuddy 9 Jun 2017

Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia’s plantation lobby challenges environmental law

Basten Gokkon, Lusia Arumingtyas 7 Jun 2017

Fire a rising threat to Sulawesi’s black macaques

Christopel Paino 2 Jun 2017

Pressure builds on palm oil firm Goodhope after RSPO sanction

Alice Cuddy 31 May 2017

Indonesian governor asks president to let timber firms drain peat in his province

Lusia Arumingtyas 20 May 2017

Palm oil firm pledges to stop deforesting after RSPO freezes its operations in Papua

Mongabay.com 11 May 2017

RSPO freezes palm oil company’s operations in Papua

Alice Cuddy 7 May 2017

A return to mixed roots in a Sumatran forest

Dedek Hendry 2 May 2017

Mapping indigenous lands in Indonesia’s tallest mountains

Wahyu Mulyono 21 Apr 2017

Rainforest conservation may be aimed at the wrong places, study finds

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 13 Apr 2017

The military family that kept a pet orangutan in Indonesia

Philip Jacobson 29 Mar 2017

A Sumatran king’s 1,400-year-old vision for sustainable landscape planning

Taufik Wijaya 27 Mar 2017

Jokowi reiterates commitment to indigenous rights

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2017

World’s biggest indigenous peoples alliance to choose new leader today in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2017

Indonesia’s indigenous peoples will have to keep waiting for a promised task force on their rights

Mongabay.com 18 Mar 2017

Jokowi cancels appearance at rare indigenous peoples congress

Mongabay.com 16 Mar 2017

Alarms raised as timber firm said to pierce one of Indonesia’s last orangutan strongholds

Basten Gokkon 14 Mar 2017

Q&A with Abdon Nababan, outgoing head of Indonesia’s indigenous peoples alliance

Philip Jacobson 13 Mar 2017

Aceh governor-elect: ‘I myself will cancel’ controversial geothermal project in Sumatran rainforest

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Mar 2017

Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Greenpeace to take Indonesian forestry ministry to Supreme Court over environmental data

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2017

An indigenous group reforests its corner of coastal New Guinea

Agapitus Batbual 7 Mar 2017

Science needed for more transparency in Paris climate projections

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2017

Forests provide a nutritional boon to some communities, research shows

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2017

A Bornean village conserves a forest the government listed for cutting

Indra Nugraha 2 Mar 2017

Environmental costs, benefits and possibilities: Q&A with anthropologist Eben Kirksey

John Cannon 28 Feb 2017

Kalaodi, Tidore’s eco-village in Indonesia’s spice capital

M Rahmat Ulhaz 28 Feb 2017

Protected areas found to be ‘significant’ sources of carbon emissions

Benji Jones 17 Feb 2017

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