Tag: Forest fires
Investments minister ‘rules out’ more palm oil plantations in Papua
By Hans Nicholas Jong in Jakarta
A top Indonesian official has declared a halt to new oil palm plantations in the country’s heavily forested West...
Toxic smoke chokes region as Indonesian rainforests burn
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Thousands of forest fires have been burning across Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra, disrupting air travel, closing schools and sickening thousands of...
Indonesia’s development dilemmas – a green info gap and budget pressure
Crucial to how Indonesia's news outlets cover the environment - and its destruction - is the ownership and vested interests of the media landscape. ...
Timber firm accused over Indonesian threat to last orangutan strongholds
By Basten Gokkon in Pontianak, West Kalimantan
A timber plantation company is illegally clearing one of Indonesia’s last coastal peat swamp forests, a carbon reservoir...
Indonesia on fire, cross-boundary public health hazards
Fires in Indonesia, which burned more than 2.1 million hectares of forest and peatlands in 2015, have raged in dry seasons year on year,...
Indonesia’s climate crisis: Is the world still looking away?
By India Thorogood
"Indonesia is burning - so why is the world looking away?" Late last year those words shone a small spotlight on a...
#COP21: ‘No indigenous respect’ in climate deal, says Timor tribal chief
Report by Ryan Dagur in Jakarta
A leader of a Jakarta-based indigenous people's organisation has expressed disappointment at the agreement recently adopted at the Paris...
COP21: Indonesian forest fires hot issue for global climate summit
Report by Professor Crispin Maslog in MANILA
As 190 nations grapple with the world's future at the global climate summit in Paris, forest fires in...
#COP21: Fingers point as threat from Papuan forest fires increases
Report by Ryan Dagur in Jakarta
While countries consider their climate change options for the future at COP21 in Paris, forest fires and the ensuing...
