JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Enormous swathes of pristine forest are being cut down across Indonesia to supply the rapidly rising international demand for biomass material seen as critical to many ...
By Aida Greenbury A week ago, the media reported that the Ministry of Forestry estimated the total cost of rehabilitating Indonesia’s forests and critical lands at Rp153.78 trillion, or about US$9.2 ...
In this image provided by Mighty Earth, the head of Kwipalo family of Papua's Yei tribe, Vincen Kwipalo, 63, left, and his wife Alowisia Kwerkujai, 58, cut a sago tree to find sago grubs, at a tribal ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on ...