Indonesian Forests News

A captive Sumatran tiger.

Volunteer radio station brings old media to remote Sumatran tiger habitat

Suryadi 18 Feb 2025

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Aug 2022

Yasmin trails her son Junaidi on their farm.

Photos: Meet the Indonesians on the front lines of human-elephant conflict in Sumatra

Fieni Aprilia 11 Aug 2022

A herd of elephants in Cot Girek.

‘Chased from every side’: Sumatran elephants pinned down by forest loss

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 10 Aug 2022

Saving Sumatran elephants starts with counting them. Indonesia won’t say how many are left

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 8 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

No permit? No problem for palm oil company still clearing forest in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Aug 2022

A male orangutan in Indonesian Borneo. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Deforestation in Borneo threatens one in four orangutans, study says

Basten Gokkon 26 Jul 2022

Plantations threaten Indonesia’s orangutans, but they’re not oil palm

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jul 2022

Fire in Indonesia forest

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jul 2022

Sumatra palm plantations the usual suspects as unusual burning razes peatlands

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2022

Legal defeats pile up for palm oil companies stripped of permits in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2022

Yadi, a member of the Menapo House

Saving medicinal plants a village cause in Indonesia

Warief Djajanto Basorie, Yitno Suprapto 26 May 2022

Rainforest in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Indonesia’s revocation of palm oil, mining permits marred by ‘maladministration’

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2022

Iban dugout canoes on the Utik river in Sungai Utik's customary forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian government lagging independent effort to recognize Indigenous lands

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 May 2022

Court setback doesn’t sway Indonesian villagers fighting a mining firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2022

Plan to carve up Indonesian Papua rings alarm over fate of people and forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Apr 2022

Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

Indonesia’s Riau province declares state of emergency ahead of fire season

Suryadi 5 Apr 2022

Palm oil firm that cleared Papuan forest after losing its permit is still at it

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Apr 2022

FSC-certified Moorim Paper linked to massive forest clearing in Indonesia’s Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Mar 2022

Deforestation for palm oil falls in Southeast Asia, but is it a trend or a blip?

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Mar 2022

A long-tailed macaque in Gunung Leuser National Park. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Probe finds palm oil firm illegally clearing forest in Sumatra wildlife haven

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Mar 2022

Fate of Indonesian rainforest the size of Belgium hangs in the balance (commentary)

Sam Lawson 17 Mar 2022

Intact rainforest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Study: Indonesia’s forest-clearing moratorium underdelivered — but so did donors

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2022

In a national park plagued by encroachers, Indonesia tries a new approach

Tonggo Simangunsong 9 Mar 2022

Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Fate of mine, plantation concessions revoked by Indonesia to be finalized soon

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Mar 2022

Palm oil and pulpwood the usual suspects as Papua deforestation persists

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Mar 2022

Forest clearing for crop program in Papua may unleash massive emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Mar 2022

Palm oil firm hit by mass permit revocation still clearing forest in Indonesia

Asrida Elisabeth, Philip Jacobson 22 Feb 2022

Field school teaches young Indigenous Indonesians how to care for their forests

Wahyu Chandra 16 Feb 2022

Indonesian government says no to reclassifying oil palm estates as forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Feb 2022

Indonesia on track with peatland restoration, but bogged down with mangroves

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Feb 2022

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