Southeast Asian infrastructure News

Focusing on the social and environmental impacts of roads, dams, mines, and other infrastructure projects in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea.

An ‘ocean grab’ for a property megaproject leaves Jakarta fishers grounded

Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population

Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri

Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules

To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest

Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams

As hydropower dams quell the Mekong’s life force, what are the costs?

As Indonesia’s new capital takes shape, risks to wider Borneo come into focus

Tunnel collapse at dam project in orangutan habitat claims yet another life

Sulawesi nickel plant coats nearby homes in toxic dust

Indonesia’s grand EV plans hinge on a ‘green’ industrial park that likely isn’t

Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’

‘Cursed’ dam project in orangutan habitat claims 16th life in less than 2 years

In Laos, a ‘very dangerous dam’ threatens an ancient world heritage site

Bali’s new highway project sparks concerns about agriculture and conservation areas

Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island

Plantations and roads strip away Papua’s forests. They’re just getting started

Indonesian farmers refuse to budge for train line through karst landscape

UNESCO calls for closure of road running through World Heritage park in Papua

Indonesia’s Gorontalo road runs into forest, swerves environmental checks

A road project in Indonesia’s Gorontalo carves a path of graft and grief

NGOs call for alternative routes for Bornean road to avoid wildlife habitat

Irrigation dams threaten Thailand’s tiger forests, say conservationists

Relocating mangroves for Indonesian highway ‘not that easy,’ expert warns

Indonesian governor’s arrest in road project points to more tainted contracts

Papua deforestation highlights eastward shift of Indonesia forest clearing

Omens and optimism for Sumatran orangutans

Planned coal-trucking road threatens a forest haven for Sumatran frogs

Deforestation spurred by road project creeps closer to Sumatra wildlife haven

Tiger on the highway

A forest in Sumatra disappears for farms and roads. So do its elephants

Activists in Malaysia call on road planners to learn the lessons of history

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