Satellite imagery recorded more than 5,000 fire hotspots on peatlands across Indonesia in January, despite the fact that much ...
When Edy Mulyadi, a journalist and small-time politician, hit the headlines in Indonesia last month for calling the location of its planned new capital city “a place where genies dump kids”, he ...
The winding, slippery mud roads to the interior villages of Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of Borneo island, are now familiar to Father Ruben Basenti Moruk. For the past three years, Father Moruk ...
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Sat, January 16, 2021 Published on Jan. 16, 2021 Published on 2021-01-16T16:54:10+07:00 he South Kalimantan administration has declared a state of emergency as flooding in multiple regencies has ...
Dayak Tombun people in Central Kalimantan want President Jokowi to officialize their rights to the land they spent years mapping with NGO assistance. Jokowi has already said he backs a stalled ...
A rescuer on Sept 4 inspecting the burnt out wreckage of a helicopter that crashed with passengers on board, in Tanah Bumbu, South Kalimantan. - AP JAKARTA: A rescue team on Wednesday (Sept 3) reached ...
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has therefore downgraded the status of the orangutan from “endangered” to “critically endangered”. Most people nowadays feel great sympathy ...