Environment

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

Protest poetry lives on in post-Suharto Indonesia

Attitudes towards turtle consumption are changing in Bali

Farmers illustrate their understanding of GM

Australian university students lend a helping hand

Mountains of garbage and nowhere to put it

Alas Purwo is one of Java’s last remaining sacred spaces

Orang Rimba assert their rights

Do resettlement failures justify deforestation?

The interests of local people aren’t served by keeping them out of national parks

The Forestry Law has not stopped mining in Indonesia's state forests

Journal of an Aceh volunteer

Environmental groups protest a power plant at Lovina

For the Forest Tobelo people, regional autonomy is a mixed blessing

Military business brings many problems to Papua

Civil society mourns in the tsunami’s aftermath

International agencies need to take the time to understand local groups

As reconstruction moves into high gear, it’s time to listen to tsunami victims

NGOs and local people work together to rebuild communities, until feudalism intervenes