https://news.mongabay.com/list/indonesia/ Environmental science and conservation news Fri, 17 Nov 2023 04:37:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/05/16160320/cropped-mongabay_icon-32x32.png https://news.mongabay.com/list/indonesia/ 32 32 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/new-platform-offers-toolkit-for-companies-to-prove-their-eco-claims/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/new-platform-offers-toolkit-for-companies-to-prove-their-eco-claims/#respond 16 Nov 2023 17:35:20 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=275535 - The tool analyzes various databases and scientific papers to find relevant local biodiversity targets and automatically pulls in data from remote tools, such as camera traps, to track them.
- NatureHelm also provides consulting to help companies choose the best tools to track biodiversity targets, and produces annual reports that allow companies to show how different metrics change over time and in response to conservation actions.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/new-platform-offers-toolkit-for-companies-to-prove-their-eco-claims/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/calls-for-fsc-to-drop-canadas-paper-excellence-over-ties-to-deforester/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/calls-for-fsc-to-drop-canadas-paper-excellence-over-ties-to-deforester/#respond 16 Nov 2023 03:15:02 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=275487 - They are now calling on the Forest Stewardship Council, which certifies millions of hectares of Paper Excellence-managed forests as well as 42 of the company’s mills, to cut ties with it.
- APP was in 2007 “disassociated” from the FSC and remains barred from membership due to “destructive forestry practices”; its control of Paper Excellence should lead to the same outcome for the Canadian company, activists say.
- Both companies have denied allegations of controlling ties — despite the fact that Paper Excellence’s sole shareholder is the son of the APP chair and previously directed APP’s China business, among other revelations.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/calls-for-fsc-to-drop-canadas-paper-excellence-over-ties-to-deforester/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/in-borneo-the-power-of-mama-fight-indonesias-wildfires-with-all-woman-crew/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/in-borneo-the-power-of-mama-fight-indonesias-wildfires-with-all-woman-crew/#respond 10 Nov 2023 16:11:22 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=275277 - Farmers have long used fire in cultivation, and the risks to health and environment have grown significantly as deforestation and drainage have made peatlands particularly susceptible to fire.
- In 2022, women from the Indonesian part of Borneo formed “the Power of Mama,” a unit to fight hazardous wildfires and their causes.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/in-borneo-the-power-of-mama-fight-indonesias-wildfires-with-all-woman-crew/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/boost-for-sumatran-rhino-ivf-plan-as-eggs-extracted-from-bornean-specimen/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/boost-for-sumatran-rhino-ivf-plan-as-eggs-extracted-from-bornean-specimen/#respond 08 Nov 2023 07:50:56 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=275142 - The donor rhino, known as Pahu, is a Bornean specimen of the Sumatran rhino, and her egg would greatly expand the genetic pool of a species believed to number as few as 40.
- Since 2012, three Sumatran rhinos have been born under Indonesia’s captive-breeding program, but all are closely related: a single captive male is the father to two of them and grandfather to the third.
- Conservationists say they hope to eventually fertilize Pahu’s eggs with sperm from captive Sumatran males, with one of the Sumatran females then serving as a surrogate to hopefully bring a baby to term.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/boost-for-sumatran-rhino-ivf-plan-as-eggs-extracted-from-bornean-specimen/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/java-farmers-displaced-by-dam-remain-treading-water-after-decades/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/java-farmers-displaced-by-dam-remain-treading-water-after-decades/#respond 08 Nov 2023 02:02:47 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=275114 - Many families were paid the equivalent of just 50 U.S. cents per square meter of land at the time, or 4.5 cents per square foot, as land acquisition accelerated in the 1980s.
- Indonesia’s second-largest dam is about to commence operation as a 110-megawatt hydroelectric plant, in addition to providing irrigation water for around 1 million farmers.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/java-farmers-displaced-by-dam-remain-treading-water-after-decades/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/burn-now-pay-later-fines-trickle-in-from-indonesias-crackdown-on-forest-fires/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/burn-now-pay-later-fines-trickle-in-from-indonesias-crackdown-on-forest-fires/#respond 07 Nov 2023 09:59:10 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=275074 - The case against PT Kallista Alam (KA) was supposed to set an example for how the government is cracking down on companies that allow burning in their concessions, but has instead highlighted the difficulty of collecting on the fines.
- KA has paid just $3.6 million of its total fine, and despite a 2021 regulation barring fine payments in installments, the company has been allowed to stagger its payments over time.
- The company is one of 22 sued by the government since 2013 for fires; 14 of these have been found liable and ordered to pay a combined 5.6 trillion rupiah ($353 million), but only one has paid in full.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/burn-now-pay-later-fines-trickle-in-from-indonesias-crackdown-on-forest-fires/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/muslim-community-deserves-seats-at-global-climate-change-discourses-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/muslim-community-deserves-seats-at-global-climate-change-discourses-commentary/#respond 03 Nov 2023 19:14:11 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=275007 - At the same time, Islamic worldviews can bring solution-based perspectives to events like the upcoming COP28 climate conference later this month.
- “It should be recognized that Islamic frameworks of climate solution thinking are important, and the climate issues facing Muslims need to be at the forefront of climate discourse as well,” a new op-ed argues.
- This post is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/muslim-community-deserves-seats-at-global-climate-change-discourses-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/indonesian-activist-gita-syahrani-wins-3m-award-for-work-on-sustainable-growth/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/indonesian-activist-gita-syahrani-wins-3m-award-for-work-on-sustainable-growth/#respond 03 Nov 2023 12:21:28 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=274981 - Gita has for many years focused on supporting district governments protect peatlands and forests while developing policies for sustainable economic growth.
- Gita said she is keen to explore and include approaches that are more mindful and spiritual in encouraging more people to be active in protecting, rehabilitating and recovering the balance between people and the environment.
- Gita is the second Indonesian awardee of Climate Breakthrough grants, following environmentalist Arief Rabik in 2019; her fellow awardee this year is Jane Fleming Kleeb of the U.S., a prominent activist against the Keystone XL pipeline.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/indonesian-activist-gita-syahrani-wins-3m-award-for-work-on-sustainable-growth/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/independent-project-steps-in-as-government-slow-to-map-indonesian-ancestral-lands/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/independent-project-steps-in-as-government-slow-to-map-indonesian-ancestral-lands/#respond 03 Nov 2023 03:34:12 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=274980 - But the government’s efforts in recognizing these customary lands is lagging behind, with only 3.73 million hectares (9.21 million acres) formally recognized; that’s just 14% of what the BRWA has mapped.
- And this formal recognition is still largely limited to local governments, with the central government having only issued land certificates for customary lands in two provinces, 12 hectares (29 acres) of land certified in West Sumatra and 699.7 hectares (1,728 acres) in Papua.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/independent-project-steps-in-as-government-slow-to-map-indonesian-ancestral-lands/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/as-fire-season-worsens-indonesian-activists-report-four-companies-for-burning/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/as-fire-season-worsens-indonesian-activists-report-four-companies-for-burning/#respond 01 Nov 2023 15:03:02 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=274914 JAKARTA — Activists have reported four companies — two industrial forest firms and two palm oil firms — to the local police over fires in their concessions in Central Kalimantan as Indonesia is grappling with its worst fire episode since 2019. According to satellite image analysis done Sept. 2-10, the activists found a total of […]]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/as-fire-season-worsens-indonesian-activists-report-four-companies-for-burning/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/key-indonesian-fish-populations-depleted-new-assessments-needed-study-shows/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/key-indonesian-fish-populations-depleted-new-assessments-needed-study-shows/#respond 31 Oct 2023 08:06:44 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=274751 - The authors have called for a reevaluation of the method used to assess fish stocks to address the overexploitation of these populations.
- The Indonesian deep-slope demersal fisheries have helped position Indonesia to be the world’s second-largest exporter of snapper species.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/key-indonesian-fish-populations-depleted-new-assessments-needed-study-shows/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/report-alleges-app-continues-deforestation-10-years-after-pledge-to-stop/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/report-alleges-app-continues-deforestation-10-years-after-pledge-to-stop/#respond 31 Oct 2023 05:42:14 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=274819 - The report identifies 75,000 hectares (185,300 acres) of deforestation in APP supplier concessions or companies connected to APP between February 2013 and 2022 — an area the size of New York City.
- APP has also changed the start date of its no-deforestation policy from 2013 to 2020, which would allow the company at some point in the future to accept new suppliers that deforested between 2013 and 2020.
- APP denies allegations of continued deforestation and says its suppliers have ceased forest conversions since 2013; the company also says it has committed to peatland restoration.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/report-alleges-app-continues-deforestation-10-years-after-pledge-to-stop/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/o-k-coral-outlaw-fisher-turns-reef-marshal-in-indonesias-sumbawa/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/o-k-coral-outlaw-fisher-turns-reef-marshal-in-indonesias-sumbawa/#respond 31 Oct 2023 04:15:58 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=274657 - In 2010, Amiruddin was arrested and almost died while using poison to kill fish off Sumbawa’s west coast.
- Today he has installed lattices to support coral growth in the islands where he fished with explosives and poison in his youth.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/o-k-coral-outlaw-fisher-turns-reef-marshal-in-indonesias-sumbawa/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/the-indo-west-pacific-harbors-two-distinct-mangrove-hotspots-study-says/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/the-indo-west-pacific-harbors-two-distinct-mangrove-hotspots-study-says/#respond 30 Oct 2023 06:49:38 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=274712 - The Indo-West Pacific is known to have the highest diversity of mangrove plants in the world, but it wasn’t previously clear which parts of the region had peak diversity.
- The latest research found the mangrove forests of the archipelagic region that spans from Papua New Guinea to Malaysia differ in numerous characteristics, including sediment size, freshwater input and plant species.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/the-indo-west-pacific-harbors-two-distinct-mangrove-hotspots-study-says/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/indigenous-dayak-furious-as-rspo-dismisses-land-rights-violation-complaint/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/indigenous-dayak-furious-as-rspo-dismisses-land-rights-violation-complaint/#respond 27 Oct 2023 11:24:31 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=274714 - The company, MAS, arrived on the Indigenous Dayak Hibun’s ancestral land in 1996, and by 2000 had swallowed up 1,400 hectares (3,460 acres) of the community’s land within its concession.
- The community lodged its complaint in 2012, aimed at MAS’s parent company at the time, Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby Plantation, which is a member of the RSPO.
- In dismissing the complaint, 11 years later, the RSPO cited no evidence of land rights violations, and also noted that Sime Darby Plantation has sold off MAS — whose current owner isn’t an RSPO member and therefore isn’t subject to the roundtable’s rules.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/indigenous-dayak-furious-as-rspo-dismisses-land-rights-violation-complaint/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/for-1st-time-indonesia-government-recognizes-ancestral-forests-in-aceh-but-only-some/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/for-1st-time-indonesia-government-recognizes-ancestral-forests-in-aceh-but-only-some/#respond 26 Oct 2023 14:50:48 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=274675 - In total, Indigenous communities in Aceh seek recognition of 144,497 hectares (357,060 acres) of customary forests, and thus activists are calling for the government to recognize the rest of the forests.
- The communities welcome the recognition, saying it will give them legal protection to manage their forests in a sustainable manner.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/for-1st-time-indonesia-government-recognizes-ancestral-forests-in-aceh-but-only-some/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/indonesias-oil-palm-smallholders-need-both-state-and-eu-support-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/indonesias-oil-palm-smallholders-need-both-state-and-eu-support-commentary/#respond 25 Oct 2023 02:45:38 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=274378 - Smallholders account for 40% of Indonesia’s palm oil production, but lack the resources and capacity to comply with the new restrictions, and so must be provided with to training, technology, financing, and certification, Barahamin writes.
- This post is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of Mongabay.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/indonesias-oil-palm-smallholders-need-both-state-and-eu-support-commentary/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/sumatran-indigenous-seafarers-run-aground-by-overfishing-and-mangrove-loss/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/sumatran-indigenous-seafarers-run-aground-by-overfishing-and-mangrove-loss/#respond 23 Oct 2023 05:24:34 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=274495 - A study published in October found that intact mangroves were associated with up to a 28% increase in fish and shellfish consumption among coastal communities.
- Duano elders say young people from the community are increasingly retiring from the community’s traditional livelihood to take up poorly paid casual work.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/sumatran-indigenous-seafarers-run-aground-by-overfishing-and-mangrove-loss/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/deforestation-surges-in-hotspot-of-critically-endangered-bornean-orangutans/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/deforestation-surges-in-hotspot-of-critically-endangered-bornean-orangutans/#respond 20 Oct 2023 05:45:51 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=274454 - Concession holder PT Mayawana Persada cleared 14,000 hectares (34,600 acres) of forest between January and August, or 40 times the size of New York’s Central Park, of which 13,000 hectares (32,100 acres) were areas identified as orangutan habitat.
- In July alone, the company cleared 4,970 hectares (12,300 acres), the highest monthly deforestation figure recorded.
]]> Mongabay]]> https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/deforestation-surges-in-hotspot-of-critically-endangered-bornean-orangutans/feed/ 0 https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/indonesia-lobster-larvae-exports-fisheries-sustainable-corruption/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/indonesia-lobster-larvae-exports-fisheries-sustainable-corruption/#respond 20 Oct 2023 04:21:35 +0000 https://news.mongabay.com/?p=274413 - The fisheries ministry says a resumption is necessary to boost local fishers’ earnings and develop the domestic aquaculture industry.
- However, critics say the new policy mirrors a previous attempt to resume exports in 2020, which spawned a corruption scandal that led to the fisheries minister at the time being jailed.
- The ministry says this time around the policy will be monitored and enforced more strictly, although questions still remain over how sustainably lobster larvae can be harvested from the wild.
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