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

It’s early morning and Lun Yi feeds her chicken.

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

Hanna Hett | Shaurya Kshatri | Megan Wilde | Aastha Sethi 28 Apr 2023

Road-paving project threatens a wildlife-rich reserve in Indonesia’s Papua

Asrida Elisabeth 11 Nov 2020

Planned road projects threaten Sumatran rhino habitat, experts say

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Oct 2020

Deforestation threatens to wipe out a primate melting pot in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Oct 2020

Sumatran bridge project in elephant habitat may exacerbate degradation

Taufik Wijaya 7 Oct 2020

Paper giant APP’s Sumatran road project cuts through elephant habitat

Taufik Wijaya 21 Sep 2020

a tree fern savanna in the Cromwell Mountains of Papua New Guinea courtesy of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Study revealing New Guinea’s plant life ‘first step’ toward protection

John Cannon 25 Aug 2020

Indonesian case highlights potential for long-term harms of corruption

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Aug 2020

Sumatran elephants. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia approves coal road project through forest that hosts tigers, elephants

Elviza Diana 13 Jul 2020

Experts see environmental, social fallout in Indonesia’s infrastructure push

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2020

Bornean farmers and fishers brace as a new port opens in their midst

Aseanty Pahlevi 2 Jun 2020

Indonesian levee project serves industry over community, study says

Basten Gokkon 22 May 2020

Forest clearing proceeds for dam in Sumatra despite locals’ land claims

Barita News Lumbanbatu 7 May 2020

For world’s rarest great ape, COVID-19 is latest in a litany of threats

Ayat S. Karokaro, Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Apr 2020

Indonesia’s new capital in the Bornean jungle on hold amid COVID-19 crisis

Basten Gokkon 15 Apr 2020

In Sumatra, an indigenous plea to stop a coal road carving up a forest

Elviza Diana 8 Apr 2020

Indigenous Papuans initiate own lockdowns in face of COVID-19

Basten Gokkon 6 Apr 2020

Indonesia road graft case lands Papua official, contractor in prison

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Apr 2020

Road project in economically deprived Indonesian region threatens wildlife habitat

Junaidi Hanafiah 1 Apr 2020

Indonesian activists denounce a road being built illegally in leopard habitat

Basten Gokkon 20 Mar 2020

Critics push back as cable car project for Indonesia’s Rinjani is revived

Fathul Rakhman 17 Mar 2020

Tiger on the highway: Sighting in Sumatra causes a stir, but is no surprise

Suryadi 13 Mar 2020

Indonesia’s Lake Poso, an evolutionary ‘gem,’ threatened by dam

Ian Morse 12 Mar 2020

Two identical road trips, a year apart, highlight PNG’s infrastructure woes

Mongabay 9 Mar 2020

Indonesia’s push to become a tourism paradise sidelines land rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jan 2020

Habitat loss drives deadly conflict in Indonesia’s tiger country

Taufik Wijaya 30 Dec 2019

Fighting to save an endangered ape, Indonesian activists fear for their lives

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Dec 2019

Sumatra’s dwindling forests face extra pressure from a major highway project

Basten Gokkon 6 Dec 2019

In Indonesia, a project meant to boost livelihoods has left locals behind

Ian Morse 27 Nov 2019

Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway with Mongabay’s John Cannon

Mike Gaworecki 1 Oct 2019

Notes from the road: 5 revelations from traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 25 Sep 2019

Pan Borneo Highway development endangers the Heart of Borneo

John Cannon 18 Sep 2019

Indonesian court cancels dam project in last stronghold of tigers, rhinos

Junaidi Hanafiah 2 Sep 2019

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