The charm and edge of Indonesia’s landscape comes in the form of their forests; their biodiversity’s crowning glory as well as a crucial carbon sink is now in the brink of danger. In the onset of 2023, the country had seen a drastic 27% surge in the primary forest loss compared to the previous years. What should they anticipate? When …

It’s only the second month of the year and there’s something urgent to deal with as Environmentalists have cautioned that Indonesia’s aggressive biodiesel scheme would raise the likelihood of deforestation as more tropical forests will be cleared to cultivate palm oil, encouraging lawmakers to enforce a long-term ban on new plantations. Indonesia which is the home to the third largest …

Setiono Ono stops his morning wildfire patrol at a small timber dam between a logged area and an oil palm plantation near the northeast coast of the island of Sumatra. Water leaks the color of charcoal from the dam through a small canal cut to drain the peatland surrounding it. The dam, built by the local community in Riau province’s …