Indonesian Palm Oil News

Death of Umi sparks concern over electric threat to Sumatran elephants

Teguh Suprayitno 12 Jun 2024

As RSPO celebrates 20 years of work, Indigenous groups lament unresolved grievances

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Dec 2023

Investigation shows ‘shadow companies’ linked to Indonesia palm oil giant First Resources

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2023

Burn now, pay later: Fines trickle in from Indonesia’s crackdown on forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2023

As fire season worsens, Indonesian activists report four companies for burning

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2023

Oil palm fruit collection in a plantation.

Indonesia’s oil palm smallholders need both state and EU support (commentary)

Andre Barahamin 25 Oct 2023

Efforts to extinguish the fire around Sungai Buluh Kecil, in the Tanjung Puting National Park area, mid-September 2023.

Young firefighter killed battling inferno in Borneo orangutan habitat

Budi Baskoro 24 Oct 2023

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Oct 2023

Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2023

Indonesian children locked out of school as El Niño haze chokes parts of Sumatra & Kalimantan

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Oct 2023

Indonesia’s peatland restoration claims in question as fires flare up

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Oct 2023

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Sep 2023

El Niño leads to more fires and toxic air pollution in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Sep 2023

Kellogg’s latest to freeze Indonesian supplier over palm oil violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Sep 2023

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2023

Court ruling spares Papua forest from further clearing for palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Sep 2023

Palm oil giants Indonesia, Malaysia start talks with EU over deforestation rule

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2023

Indonesia permit payoff raises alarm about palm oil industry corruption

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Aug 2023

Palm oil, pulpwood firms not doing enough to prevent peat fires, analysis shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Aug 2023

A worker fertilizing on oil palm plantation in Papua, Indonesia.

New farmers foundation supports deforestation-free products in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Aug 2023

‘Sustainability is a continuous journey’: Q&A with RSPO’s Joseph D’Cruz

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2023

A stream in a forest in Jambi.

In Sumatra’s Jambi, community forest managers fish to protect peatlands

Lili Rambe 2 Aug 2023

A Sumatran elephant in South Sumatra.

Elephant encounters rattle farmers in Indonesia’s Jambi province

Yitno Suprapto 1 Aug 2023

Army officers and and firefighters try to extinguish fires in peatland areas, Borneo.

Indonesian oil palm firm slapped with $61m fine for fires on its plantation

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Aug 2023

Muslim women’s group to reopen oxygen homes if Indonesia wildfires intensify

Mongabay Haze Beat 24 Jul 2023

A worker in an oil palm plantation.

Most Indonesian palm oil firms not sharing land with small farmers as required: audit

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jul 2023

An oil palm plantation adjacent to a forest in East Kalimantan.

Indonesia slammed for ‘bowing down’ in amnesty for illegal oil palm estates

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jul 2023

Trucks loaded with freshly cut logs transported for further processing, Gunung Lumut, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesia claims record-low deforestation, but accounting raises questions

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Jul 2023

On burning-prone Borneo, planners work to fireproof Indonesia’s new capital

Mongabay Haze Beat 17 Jul 2023

Protest action in front of the PT BGA office demanding the release of the criminalized farmers.

Civil society changes up campaign against jailed Kalimantan farmers

Richaldo Hariandja 10 Jul 2023

Indonesia’s No. 2 palm oil firm faces global backlash over community conflict

Agus Mawan 10 Jul 2023

Jokowi focuses on El Niño as Indonesia’s dry season heats up

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Jul 2023

Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching -- the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon -- in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

New data show 10% increase in primary tropical forest loss in 2022

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2023

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