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JAKARTA — Kuntoro Mangkusubroto was a rare breed of Indonesian bureaucrat: a visionary policy leader with a love for nature, someone who for decades built bridges between environmentalists and Indigenous rights activists, on one hand, and a development-focused government on the other. Kuntoro died at a hospital in Jakarta on Dec. 17 at the age […]
JAKARTA — Indonesia has signed a new climate deal with Norway that will see the Nordic country pay the Southeast Asian one to keep its forests standing. The deal comes a year after Indonesia terminated a nearly identical scheme between the two countries over the lack of payments. Land-use change, forest degradation, and deforestation account […]
The third episode in the New Guinea series of Mongabay Explores covers the island’s unique birds-of-paradise, and their symbolism as ambassadors for both the island’s beautiful landscape, and also the culture of the people who live there: Listen here: The provinces of Papua and West Papua contain roughly half of Indonesia’s remaining tropical forests. Comprised […]
[By Nithin Coca] This July, Indonesias former fisheries minister Edhy Prabowo was sentenced to fi...
With the former fisheries minister jailed for corruption, Indonesia can once again take a hard line on illegal fishing