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JAKARTA— Tourists in Indonesia are discovering the benefits of mangroves as the archipelago pushes to replant or conserve carbon-rich coastal areas that

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Mangroves have been ‘levelled down’ for tourism in the past. Can conscious travel to the archipelago of over 17,000 islands help?

The mangrove ecosystem in Indonesia is garnering increasing attention ahead of the G20 Summit scheduled in Bali on October 2022, with mangroves to be showcased ...

JAKARTA — Indonesia has recorded mixed progress in its dual programs of restoring tropical peatlands and mangroves, acknowledging that achieving the latter goal will be far more challenging than for the higher-profile peatlands. The government has targeted restoring 1.2 million hectares (3 million acres) of degraded peatlands and 600,000 hectares (1.5 million acres) of degraded […]

In a rural office on Bengkalis Island, off the northeast coast of Sumatra, 30-year-old Mayasari runs a mask dyed with tree sap through an antique sewing machine. The day before, Mayasari, who goes by one name, and a dozen other women in Pedekik village learned to make hand sanitizer with an extract from the mangrove trees that fringe the coast. “Alhamdulillah [praise be to god] — if this comes from nature in Bengkalis, then it’s great,” Mayasari said. The Bengkalis training is the first ...

Mangroves have an outsize role in sequestering planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions but they are disappearing fast in Indonesia

PEDEKI (Indonesia), Dec 15 — In a rural office on Bengkalis island, off the northeast coast of Sumatra, 30-year-old Mayasari runs a face mask dyed with tree sap through an antique sewing machine. The day before, Mayasari, who goes by one name, and a dozen other women in Pedekik village learned to...