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Deforestation & Forest Fires

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October 4, 2024

Tempo - October 4, 2024

Mansuetus Darto – On September 12, 2024, I attended a meeting of the Joint Task Force (JTF) between the European Union Commission, the Government of Indonesia, and the Government of Mal

October 3, 2024

Mongabay - October 3, 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indigenous Papuans say they've been caught off guard by helicopters flying over their villages and excavators tearing down their forests in their area, all

Agence France-Presse - October 3, 2024

Bangkok – Producers from Malaysia and Indonesia's palm oil industry to Vietnam's coffee sector on Thursday welcomed a European Union decision to delay implementation of its anti-defores

September 23, 2024

Human Rights Monitor - September 23, 2024

Indonesia, West Papua – A new report has revealed the devastating impacts of palm oil investment in Papua, Indonesia, on both the environment and indigenous communities.

September 19, 2024

Mongabay - September 19, 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Excavators have begun clearing land in the Indonesian region of Papua in what's been described as the largest deforestation undertaking in the world.

September 15, 2024

Tempo - September 15, 2024

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia's West Kalimantan Provincial Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) revealed that from January 1 to August 30, 2024, land and forest fires have burned an area of

September 13, 2024

Jakarta Post - September 13, 2024

Yulia Savitri, Palembang – Marda Ellius is always stressed out and worried about her and her children's health whenever flames engulfs a forest located near her house in Bangsal village

September 9, 2024

Straits Times - September 9, 2024

David Fogarty and Linda Yulisman, Singapore/Jakarta – If there is one thing that worries Indonesia's neighbours, it is choking haze.

Mongabay - September 9, 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Residents of Indonesia's South Sumatra province have filed a lawsuit against three pulpwood companies for a toxic haze that they blame on repeated burning

September 5, 2024

Plant Base News - September 5, 2024

Liam Pritchett – A planned five million-acre sugarcane megaproject in Indonesia's Papua province could threaten its uniquely biodiverse rainforest and the Indigenous Papuans who depend

Mongabay - September 5, 2024

Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Lubok Pusaka, Indonesia – Jaharuddin, 50, sits deep in thought in his living room in Lubok Pusaka village, in Indonesia's Aceh province, smoking a cigarette and sta

September 2, 2024

Mongabay - September 2, 2024

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi, Jakarta – Indonesian conservationist Farwiza Farhan says she couldn't contain her tears when she learned that the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation ha

August 30, 2024

Mongabay - August 30, 2024

Barita News Lumbanbatu, Sipahutar, Indonesia – On the Indonesian island of Sumatra lives a man named Efron Simanjuntak.

August 8, 2024

Tempo - August 8, 2024

Irsyan Hasyim (Contributor), Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) stated that 99 percent of forest and land fires, or Karhutla, in Indonesia are caused by human acti

Mongabay - August 8, 2024

Sarjan Lahay, Gorontalo, Indonesia – A palm oil industry body and a state-owned company are proposing a vast new palm oil plan encompassing around 1 million hectares (nearly 2.5 million

July 12, 2024

Mongabay - July 12, 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Activists allege that two of the world's biggest pulp and paper companies have violated their zero-deforestation pledge by clearing natural forests and pea

July 9, 2024

Mongabay - July 9, 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Allegations of illegal activity and land-grabbing against Indonesia's second-largest palm oil company continue to mount as a new report reveals the firm's

July 2, 2024

Cosmos - July 2, 2024

Ellen Phiddian – A study has found that nearly half of land cleared in Indonesia is left idle for more than 5 years.

June 26, 2024

Jakarta Globe - June 26, 2024

Jakarta – Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya recently addressed the Oslo Tropical Forest Forum, saying that Indonesia's deforestation had been witnessing a decline.

Jakarta Post - June 26, 2024

Jakarta – A number of South Sumatra regencies have been put on siaga (alert) status, the second-highest level of the country's four-tiered alert system, for land and forest fires ahead

June 24, 2024

Tempo - June 24, 2024

Irsyan Hasyim, Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) estimates wildfire has consumed 50 hectares of land in the Mount Batok area at Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park

June 20, 2024

Asia One - June 20, 2024

jakarta – Indonesia's Awyu tribe of the Papua region has filed a case to the Supreme Court seeking to cancel permits for palm oil concessions on thousands of hectares of rainforest over

June 19, 2024

Mongabay - June 19, 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong, Sarjan Lahay, Jakarta – The Indonesian government plans to establish 2 million hectares, or nearly 5 million acres, of sugarcane plantations in the eastern region of

June 8, 2024

Associated Press - June 8, 2024

Victoria Milko and Dita Alangkara, Damaran Baru, Indonesia – In a lush jungle at the foothills of a volcano in Indonesia's Aceh province, the song of gibbons in the trees mixes with the

June 6, 2024

Mongabay - June 6, 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – In 2015, Indonesian forestry giant Asia Pulp & Paper announced it would retire thousands of hectares of its commercial timber plantation in Sumatra, wi

June 1, 2024

Temp Editorial - June 1, 2024

Jakarta – The state is yet to receive compensation payments totaling Rp19 trillion from companies that burned forests. A slow implementation of court rulings.

May 30, 2024

Mongabay - May 30, 2024

Stefano Valentino – In its sustainability policy, Michelin, the world's largest tire manufacturer, highlights its commitment to "responsible and sustainable management of the rubber ind

May 13, 2024

Tempo - May 13, 2024

Riani Sanusi Putri and Agung Sedayu – Hundreds of companies, some of which are certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO), hav

May 9, 2024

Mongabay - May 9, 2024

Jakarta – Indonesia's largest deforesting company has continued to clear peatland despite an order by the government for the firm to stop clearing rainforests.

April 29, 2024

Associated Press - April 29, 2024

Indonesia – From trees felled in protected national parks to massive swathes of jungle razed for palm oil and paper plantations, Indonesia had a 27 per cent uptick in primary forest los

April 12, 2024

Tempo - April 12, 2024

Abdul Manan, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Balikpapan Station detected 169 hotspots spread across East Kalimantan Province.

April 9, 2024

Mongabay - April 9, 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – 2023 saw the worst fire season in Indonesia since 2019, with an area the size of Qatar going up in flames, according to official government data.

March 29, 2024

Associated Press - March 29, 2024

Victoria Milko, Jakarta, Indonesia – Roads turned to murky brown rivers, homes were swept away by strong currents and bodies were pulled from mud during deadly flash floods and landslid

March 27, 2024

Mongabay - March 27, 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia is experiencing a resurgence in forest clearance due to the expansion of pulpwood and oil palm plantations, reversing years of declining deforest

March 23, 2024

Mongabay - March 23, 2024

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

March 14, 2024

Mongabay - 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

Mongabay - 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

Mongabay - 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

Tempo - 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

Mongabay - 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 Post - 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

Tempo - January 29, 2024

Antara, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency or BMKG Balikpapan detected 77 hotspots across East Kalimantan.

January 24, 2024

Jakarta Globe - 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

Washington Post - 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

Mongabay - 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

Mongabay - 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

Antara News - 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

Reuters - 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

Mongabay - 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

Jakarta Post - 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