Agriculture

The true costs of prawn farming are starting to show in Java

The value of children’s paid work on Lombok’s tobacco plantations presents a challenge to emotive arguments for the wholesale banning of child labour

Direct local elections have led to new developments in the struggle for land rights in East Kalimantan

Central Java farmers refuse to get stuck in cement

Century-old conflicts persist in the vast tracts of Indonesia that are designated as state forest

Activists split with Indonesia’s government over whether land registration helps the rural poor

Conflicts between villagers and plantation companies in Sumatra are still unresolved

A land conflict on the tourist island of Gili Trawangan dates back decades

Jatropha biofuel production in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara

Organic farming takes root in post-bomb Bali

MICHAEL DOVE traces Dayak unhappiness to inequities in state development.

What sort of attempt is being made to control the use of pesticides?

Farmers illustrate their understanding of GM

Bali’s new Village Ecotourism Network provides an alternative to mass tourism.

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May 30, 2023 - ISABELL HERRMANS

May 25, 2023 - PETER WALTERS, IMAM ARDHIANTO, SONIA ROITMAN & RUSLI CAHYADI

Indigenous residents of the new capital city complain about the ‘land mafia’

Apr 26, 2023 - BEN GLEESON

Apr 03, 2023 - ILSA NELWAN

Now published in both English and Indonesian translation, the annotated collection will provide a better understanding of this Indonesian heroine

Mar 22, 2023 - JENNY MUNRO

Truth and irrational violence in West Papua

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