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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.

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

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

A tiger refuge in Sumatra gets a reprieve from road building

Rod Harbinson 31 Aug 2019

The end of the road: The future of the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 30 Aug 2019

A remote Indonesian district juggles road building with nature conservation

Basten Gokkon 29 Aug 2019

For Indonesia’s Kendari Bay, silting is a death sentence

Ian Morse 28 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway on a collision course with elephants

John Cannon 28 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway could divide threatened wildlife populations

John Cannon 26 Aug 2019

Indonesia picks coal and oil heartland as site of new capital city

Basten Gokkon 26 Aug 2019

Sumatran elephant sanctuary under threat from bridge, port projects

Taufik Wijaya 26 Aug 2019

Aimed at linking communities, Malaysian highway may damage forests

John Cannon 23 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway brings wildlife threats to nat’l park doorstep

John Cannon 21 Aug 2019

Connecting an island: Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 19 Aug 2019

Red flags as Indonesia eyes relocating its capital city to Borneo

Basten Gokkon 2 Aug 2019

New roads in Papua New Guinea may cause ‘quantum leap’ in forest loss

John Cannon 24 Jul 2019

Indonesia, facing a waste crisis, plans to burn it for electricity

Basten Gokkon 22 Jul 2019

Indonesian governor latest official busted for bribes in environmental case

Indra Nugraha 12 Jul 2019

As opposition wanes, a Malaysian land reclamation project pushes ahead

Keith Schneider 2 Jul 2019

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An Indonesian forest community grapples with the arrival of the outside world

Rod Harbinson 1 Jul 2019

Despite fiery campaign rhetoric, Chinese-backed projects in Malaysia steam ahead

Keith Schneider 28 Jun 2019

No environmental permit for Bali bay reclamation plan amid opposition

Basten Gokkon 25 Jun 2019

Bumpy ride for conservation in PNG as lack of roads hinders activities

Lucy EJ Woods 10 Jun 2019

A forest beset by oil palms, logging, now contends with a coal-trucking road

Elviza Diana 28 May 2019

Documentary on world’s rarest ape generates film festival buzz

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 May 2019

In traffic-blighted Penang, transport upgrade plans raise hopes and fears

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 3 May 2019

Survey: Less coal, more solar, say citizens of Belt & Road countries

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2019

IUCN calls for moratorium on projects impacting rarest great ape species

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Apr 2019

Sumatran governor jailed over bribes to award infrastructure projects

Mongabay.com 9 Apr 2019

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019

‘Nothing was left’: Flash floods, landslides hit Indonesia’s Papua region

Asrida Elisabeth, Della Syahni, Lusia Arumingtyas 21 Mar 2019

Bank of China to review funding of dam in orangutan habitat in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2019

PNG politicians push coal as Pacific islanders rail against climate change

Catherine Wilson 12 Mar 2019

Activists fighting to save orangutan habitat from dam unfazed by legal setback

James Fair 5 Mar 2019

Business as usual on a reclaimed islet off Jakarta — despite closure order

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Mar 2019

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