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Indonesia’s No. 2 palm oil firm faces global backlash over community conflict

Agus Mawan 10 Jul 2023

In Indonesia, companies defy government’s decision to revoke their permits

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jun 2023
Burned peat forest in Borneo.

Peatlands, Indonesia’s carbon trove, are mostly unprotected, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jun 2023
An oil palm plantation adjacent to a forest in East Kalimantan.

Indonesian audit finds taxes unpaid on 22 million acres of oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 May 2023
An oil palm plantation and natural forest in Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia legalizes illicit oil palm farms in program slammed as opaque

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 May 2023
Rainbow over the rainforest and oil palm plantations in the midst of a tropical downpour in Jambi on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

With little will to fight it, corruption is major risk for Indonesian palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 May 2023

Indonesian palm oil billionaire gets 15 years for corruption

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Feb 2023
Palm oil estate worker

Indonesia and Malaysia assail new EU ban on ‘dirty commodities’ trade

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jan 2023

Indonesia’s biofuel push must go beyond palm oil to reduce risk, experts say

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2023
Deforestation for oil palm in Malaysia.

Report calls on palm oil firms to make up for nearly 1m hectares of forest loss

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Nov 2022
Deramakot forest reserve is a FSC-certified logging concession in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

With FSC rule change, deforesters once blocked from certification get a new shot

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Oct 2022

Sustainability pledges help Indonesia produce palm oil with less deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Oct 2022
Palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Palm oil firms not acting fast enough on no-deforestation vows: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Sep 2022
Independent oil palm farmers from Talang Durian Cacar.

Indonesia amnesties 75 companies operating illegally inside forest areas

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Sep 2022

Nearness to roads and palm oil mills a key factor in peatland clearing by smallholders

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Aug 2022
Fire in Indonesia forest

As dry season starts in Indonesia, risk of fires — and haze — looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jul 2022

When Indonesia retook land from developers, it gave them a solid case to sue

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2022

Spurred by investor-friendly law, palm oil firms sue to get licenses back

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2022

Mexican firm profits from reforestation, empowers Indigenous people

Maxwell Radwin 21 Dec 2021

Papua court ruling a win for local government, Indigenous groups against palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Mongabay reporter sued in what appears to be a pattern of legal intimidation by Peruvian cacao company

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2021

‘Forests will disappear again,’ activists warn as Indonesia ends plantation freeze

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Dec 2021

Lack of resolution mechanisms allow palm oil conflicts to fester in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Nov 2021
Forest illegally cleared for oil palm in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesian official busted over alleged bribe for palm oil permit

Hans Nicholas Jong, Suryadi 19 Nov 2021

Palm oil firm that dried out its land held not liable for fires that followed

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2021
Mills linked to a refinery. Courtesy of palmoil.io

Data-driven platform looks to clear up fog of palm oil traceability

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2021

Loss of oil palm permits leaves Papuan villages uncertain and fearful

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2021

Links to coal mining add to Indonesian palm oil sector’s risk for buyers

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Sep 2021

Palm oil firms in Papua hit back with lawsuit after permits are revoked

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Sep 2021

Calls mount for Indonesian ban on new palm oil plantations to be extended

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Aug 2021

Soil and its promise as a climate solution: A primer

Mareli Sanchez-Julia 10 Aug 2021
Liberian tropical forest. Image via USAID

Review finds palm oil firm Golden Veroleum cleared carbon-rich Liberian forests

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Mar 2021

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