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Indonesia softens stance on WWF termination as programs fall into limbo

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Feb 2020

Mining leads to flooding in Indonesia’s coal capital Samarinda

Yovanda 5 Feb 2020

Indonesian environment ministry ends WWF partnership amid public spat

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jan 2020

Indonesia forest fires push orangutans into starvation mode, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jan 2020
Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Activists seek purge after Indonesia court rules forest plantations illegal

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2020

Indonesian palm oil firm hit with $1.8m fine for 2015 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Dec 2019

Indonesia fires cost nation $5 billion this year: World Bank

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Dec 2019

Dodgy science and corporate concessions in Indonesia’s bid for clean palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Dec 2019

FSC complaint filed against pulpwood firms tied to Indonesia’s richest man

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Dec 2019

Indonesia’s fires burned mostly abandoned and degraded land, not forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2019

Our fires weren’t as bad as in the Amazon, Indonesian officials claim

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2019

Paper and fast fashion fan the flames burning Indonesia’s peat: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Dec 2019

Indonesia fires emitted double the carbon of Amazon fires, research shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Nov 2019

In surprise move, Brazil has removed restrictions on Amazon sugarcane production

Naira Hofmeister 13 Nov 2019

Indonesian fire expert awarded for exposing destruction by plantation firms

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Nov 2019

FSC report on palm giant Korindo lists litany of violations, even with redactions

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Nov 2019

Makers of Oreos, KitKats among brands linked to Indonesia forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Nov 2019

RSPO questions effectiveness of Indonesian palm plantation moratorium

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2019
Peat fire in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesian court fines palm oil firm $18.5m over forest fires in 2015

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Oct 2019

Area the size of Puerto Rico burned in Indonesia’s fire crisis

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2019

‘Bring it on,’ EU MP says of trade fight over palm biofuel phase-out

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Oct 2019

CITES appeals to countries to watch out for trafficked Malagasy rosewood

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Oct 2019

Indonesian enforcement questioned as fires flare up on the same concessions

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Oct 2019

Indonesia defers legislation seen as harming the environment — for now

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Oct 2019
Forest in West Papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Palm oil giant Korindo silences critical report with cease-and-desist letter

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Sep 2019

‘We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president says as fire crisis deepens

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Sep 2019

Indonesian minister draws fire for denial of transboundary haze problem

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2019

Indonesia forest-clearing ban is made permanent, but labeled ‘propaganda’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Aug 2019

Haze from fires, Indonesia’s national ‘embarrassment,’ are back

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Aug 2019

Top court holds Indonesian government liable over 2015 forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jul 2019

Fears over Indonesian president’s demand for unfettered investment

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Jul 2019
Road running through drained and burned peatlands. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

‘Dangerous’ new regulation puts Indonesia’s carbon-rich peatlands at risk

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2019

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