Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Farm-to-fork traceability has become an increasingly urgent, and often required, component of global supply chains, with a growing number of commodities no
Deforestation & Forest Fires
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March 23, 2024
March 14, 2024
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Deforestation for oil palm plantations continues unabated at the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, likely driven by new processing mills th
March 7, 2024
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Two major palm oil companies recently exited a committee that helps identify forest areas for protection, bringing the total number of firms quitting the f
March 6, 2024
Suryadi, Pekanbaru, Indonesia – Emergency workers and community firefighters battled isolated fires in Sumatra's Riau province in late February as the onset of the region's first dry se
February 29, 2024
Antara, Jakarta – The Balikpapan Station of the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) detected 39 hotspots spread across East Kalimantan.
February 14, 2024
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Deforestation by the palm oil industry in Indonesia increased in 2023 for the second year in a row, bucking a decade of gradual decline, according to an an
February 7, 2024
Jakarta – Kraksaan District Court in Probolinggo, East Java, has sentenced 41-year-old wedding organizer Andrie Wibowo Eka Wardhana to two and a half years in prison and a fine of Rp 3.
January 29, 2024
Antara, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency or BMKG Balikpapan detected 77 hotspots across East Kalimantan.
January 24, 2024
Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Jakarta – The Environment and Forestry Minister, Siti Nurbaya, has denied the statement made by vice-presidential candidate Mohammad Mahfud MD, who claimed that d
January 19, 2024
Rebecca Tan, Bentuk Jaya, Indonesia – Indonesia has been clearing tens of thousands of acres of densely vegetated peatland for farming, releasing massive amounts of carbon that had been
January 10, 2024
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Fires razed nearly 1 million hectares (2.47 million acres) of lands and forests in Indonesia in 2023, as the country suffered from unusually scorching weat
January 9, 2024
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – After years of declining deforestation, forest loss caused by Indonesia's pulp sector is on the rise again, showing a fivefold increase in 2022 compared wi
January 5, 2024
Samarinda – Balikpapan's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) office detected 38 hotspots scattered across several locations in East Kalimantan that necessitates relat
December 22, 2023
Jakarta – The government said on Friday that it would slap palm oil companies operating within forest areas with fines amounting to a total of Rp 4.8 trillion ($310.1 million).
December 14, 2023
Philip Jacobson, Aseanty Pahlevi, Hans Nicholas Jong, Yusie Marie and M Rahim Arza, Limbung, Indonesia – Tall brush has taken over the land that Sarijan farmed for decades here on the i
December 13, 2023
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo recently bragged to other world leaders about Indonesia's achievements in significantly reducing deforestation, which is helping the country reach its car
November 23, 2023
One of the world's largest palm oil companies appears to have overseen a network of companies responsible for deforestation of tens of thousands of hectares, according to a new investig
November 22, 2023
Jakarta – The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) has ensured that thousands of illegal oil palm companies operating in forest area have been exonerated or legalised thanks to t
November 18, 2023
Laurel Sutherlin – Picture a rhinoceros in the rainforest.
November 16, 2023
Antara, Jakarta – The Ministry of Environment and Forestry reported that wildfires engulfed 994,313 hectares of land from January to October 2023.
November 10, 2023
Mongabay Haze Beat – Ely Marlina's 2-year-old child began to cough as the wildfires enveloped Indonesia's Ketapang district in the summer of 2019.
November 7, 2023
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A palm oil company in Indonesia has finally started paying off a $23 million fine for burning an important Sumatran orangutan habitat more than a decade ag
November 1, 2023
Bernadette Christina, Jakarta – Some 200,000 hectares of oil palm plantations found in areas designated as forests in Indonesia are expected to be returned to the state to be converted
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Activists have reported four companies – two industrial forest firms and two palm oil firms – to the local police over fires in their concessions in Centra
October 30, 2023
Antara, Jakarta – The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) informed that the National Park of Mount Merbabu was set ablaze by wildfires until Sunday, October 29, 2023.
October 18, 2023
Maria Fransisca Lahur, Jakarta – The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) announced that there is a decline in hotspots observed in six priority provinces during the second week o
October 11, 2023
A senior member of Indonesia's parliament on Oct.
October 9, 2023
Kuala Lumpur/Jakarta – Malaysia is reviewing how it can take stronger action on the ground to stem the return of the haze due largely to fires raging in Indonesia, Environment Minister
October 8, 2023
Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo said he has ordered the military and police to tackle forest fires after neighbouring countries complained that smoke from the burning was mak
October 7, 2023
Chen Lin, Singapore – Singapore's air quality fell into the unhealthy range on Saturday, official readings showed, as increased forest fires from neighbouring Indonesia brought haze to
October 6, 2023
Jakarta – Forest fires in some parts of Indonesia have declined and no haze had been detected moving to Malaysia, Environment and Forestry Minister said on Friday, a day after its neigh
Petaling Jaya – Malaysia is still waiting for Indonesia's response regarding the republic's efforts to combat the transboundary haze that has affected our country in recent weeks.
October 5, 2023
Ni Komang Erviani, Karangasem, Bali – Wildfires have burned in the protected forest on the slopes of Mount Agung for the past week, with at least 645 hectares of forest affected.
Mongabay Haze Beat – Regional governments in wildfire-hit Indonesia shuttered schools in the first week October, as sickly air pollution continued to cloak several population centers in
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A diplomatic spat has once again flared up between Southeast Asian neighbors Indonesia and Malaysia, sparked by smoke from forest fires in the former that
October 4, 2023
Yvette Tanamal, Jakarta – With nearly half of the country's territory at "high risk of wildfires", the government on Tuesday said that 2,267 hectares of land was reportedly engulfed in
October 3, 2023
Septia Ryanthie, Jakarta – The wildfire at Mount Lawu this afternoon has spread to Karanganyar Regency, Central Java, as confirmed by the Head of Karanganyar Disaster Management Agency
Antara, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) detected 199 hotspots across East Kalimantan. "[We] have observed 199 hotspots from 01:00 a.m.
October 2, 2023
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Swaths of tropical peatland that were supposed to have been restored and protected from burning are among the fire-hit areas in Indonesia's ongoing dry sea
Antara, Jakarta – A forecaster at the Pekanbaru Station of the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), Moh.
October 1, 2023
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Hundreds of forest fires in Indonesia have caused haze that has worsened air quality in parts of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur's top environment official has said, a c
Jakarta – Firefighters are rushing to extinguish forest and land fires across parts of Indonesia, with the scorching weather in the South-east Asian nation worsened by an El Nino
Antara, Jakarta – With the dry season reaching its peak and the mercury shooting up, several parts of Indonesia recorded land and forest fires in September, stated Minister of Environme
September 30, 2023
Kuala Lumpur (BSS/AFP) – Hundreds of forest fires in Indonesia have caused haze to reach areas of Malaysia where it has worsened air quality, Kuala Lumpur's top environment official has
Mumbai, India – Three countries comprised of India, Malaysia, and Indonesia, swore to jointly promote the positive benefits of palm oil to the global community at the Second Sustainable
September 29, 2023
Maria Fransisca Lahur, Jakarta – Land and forest fires have covered several Indonesian regions with smog over the past few days.
September 28, 2023
Antara, Jakarta – Palangka Raya Education Office in Central Kalimantan cuts down school hours while wildfire smoke veiled the city.
September 27, 2023
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Antara, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) issued an early warning of land and forest fires in a number of Indonesian regions today, September 27, 2023
September 26, 2023
Jakarta – It is relatively easy to find news about fires in Indonesia during the dry season, especially now that the El Nino weather phenomenon has caused a long drought in recen