Dec 14, 2018 Last Updated 7:39 AM, Dec 10, 2018

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Pollution

Review: Palm oil and patronage

An investigation into the transboundary haze and the palm plantations in Indonesia

Haze of democracy

Schools were closed for over a month due to the forest fires - Ardiles Rante/Greenpeace

Elections are fuelling the forest fires in Central Kalimantan

Undercutting Kalimantan's future

Undercutting Kalimantan's future

Forest conversion in Kalimantan is a local, national and global concern

Big business, big damage

Big business, big damage

Bioprospecting is threatening Bunaken National Park

Sun, sand and smoke

Air crashes, riots, smog, and a currency crisis dented tourist arrivals in 1997. But, says ANNA KARIN EKLÖF, newly rich Asian tourists will save the industry in the long term.

Indorayon's last gasp?

Popular protest closes a huge paper and pulp mill in Sumatra, but others go on polluting

Pesticide policy in Indonesia

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

Jakarta's rubbish nightmare

Mountains of garbage and nowhere to put it

Polluting Bali

Environmental groups protest a power plant at Lovina

Water, land, and Suharto

Review: Both books illustrate the way the Suharto family exploited Indonesia

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Radical theatre of the difabled

Nov 27, 2018 - IRFAN KORTSCHAK

The group during a rehearsal / Irfan Kortschak

Drawing upon the Theatre of the Oppressed, villagers with disabilities have an opportunity to express themselves

Essay: Contesting urban beauty in Jakarta

Nov 15, 2018 - JORGEN DOYLE & HANNAH EKIN

Source/ Doyle & Ekin Wish images

Walking Jakarta’s northern coastline reveals communities experiencing disruptive and rapid change

A ‘powerhouse’ scholar: In memoriam Jim Schiller (1944 – 2018)

Nov 05, 2018 - Himawan Bayu Patriadi

Jim with friends and family

Photo essay: Hope in the face of disaster

Nov 02, 2018 - MELANIE FILLER & TIM BARRETTO

Source/ Melanie Filler & Tim Barretto

Palu after the tsunami

Surviving while seeking asylum

Oct 26, 2018 - GEMIMA HARVEY

Hazara asylum seeker Shiringul first fled Afghanistan to Pakistan and then when the danger spread to Pakistan, she was forced to flee again, this time to Indonesia. She said the streets outside of Kalideres immigration detention centre were her best option. Source/ Gemima Harvey

A change in Australia’s asylum policy has denied refugees in Indonesia vital support

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