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.

A river restored breathes new life into Kuala Lumpur

Heavy rains preceded the Laos dam collapse. Was climate change a factor?

Belt and Road Initiative could doom the world’s rarest ape (commentary)

In Malaysia, an island drowns in its own development

Cracks appear in Malaysia’s building spree, once a model for development

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Scientists urge Indonesian president to nix dam in orangutan habitat

Tensions mount at PNG gas project as landowners threaten to close plant for good

Papua New Guinea landowners take up arms against natural gas project

‘Screen, not just green’ infrastructure projects to help economies and the environment

Indonesia turns to green finance for development projects

Roads might pose even bigger threat to Southeast Asian forests, biodiversity than previously understood

Natural gas project that promised economic boom leaves PNG in ‘worse state’: report

Sumatran habitat for tigers, orangutans gets a partial reprieve from development

Indonesian activists protest China-funded dam in orangutan habitat

‘Rarest’ ape’s path to survival blocked by roads, dams and agriculture

‘Rarest’ ape’s path to survival blocked by roads, dams and agriculture

‘We are going to self-destruct’: Development plans threaten Malaysian island

In Indonesia’s relentless infrastructure push, taint of corruption weighs on environment

Traditional landowners reject mining exploration bid in Bougainville

Scientists aim to give engineers the tools for ecologically sensitive development

Roads, dams and railways: Ten infrastructure stories from Southeast Asia in 2017

Indonesian conservation bill stirs debate over geothermal rigs, private guards

Can the Solomon Islands’ Gold Ridge Mine serve as a new model for resource extraction in the South Pacific?

Indonesia’s big development push in Papua: Q&A with program overseer Judith J. Dipodiputro

New study: Risky roads cause more than just environmental harm

Road building threatens forests, water supplies in Kuala Lumpur area

‘If it’s going to kill us, OK, we’ll die’: Villagers stand firm as Cambodian dam begins to fill

Jakarta reclamation project allowed to resume, but opposition remains

Experts seek ways to mitigate environmental impacts of infrastructure boom in Asia Pacific

Cross currents: Mega-dams and micro-hydro offer two different futures for rural Borneo

Protest against hydropower plant in Sumatra ends with injuries

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