Shares of a private company with the rights to develop tourism facilities inside a marine reserve in Indonesia have reappeared for auction later this month despite the government’s plan to annul a key agreement with the firm. Developer PT Leadership Islands Indonesia (LII) is putting up its shares for bidding via…
JAKARTA Shares of a private company with the rights to develop tourism facilities inside a marine reserve in Indonesia have reappeared for auction later this month despite the government’s plan to annul a key agreement with the firm. Developer PT Leadership Islands Indonesia (LII) is putting up its shares for bidding via Sotheby’s Concierge […]
JAKARTA Indonesian authorities have cracked down on a private developer’s bid to carve out foreign tourism enclaves within a marine reserve in the country’s eastern Widi Islands. The country’s deputy environment minister, Alue Dohong, on Dec. 6 told local TV news that the government had annulled the auction of shares of the Bali-based developer […]
JAKARTA Decades of unsustainable marine governance in Indonesia have benefited extractive land-based economic activities, costing the environment and marginalized communities whose livelihoods depend on the ecosystem, a new paper has found. Marine spatial planning in Indonesia over the past 300 years has been designed systematically to support large-scale infrastructure development and other profit-oriented activities […]
TERNATE, Indonesia It’s a sunny day in January in Indonesia’s North Maluku province, and Kamil Ishak is looking at the crops on his organic farm. “I was introduced to organic fertilizer when I received training from a community empowerment group,” Kamil, who started farming in 2013, tells Mongabay Indonesia. Kamil is one of the […]