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By: Leo Jegho
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Global Indonesian Voices
With urban growth averaging 4.4 percent annually, it is predicted that 68 percent of Indonesia’s population will live in cities over the coming 10 years.
Jakarta, GIVnews.com – Indonesia’s total population is currently about…
By: Berndatte Christina Munthe
Date: 15 September 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Indonesia's highest Islamic council has issued a fatwa on burning land and forests, a government official said on Wednesday, in an effort to halt the toxic smog that blankets the region each year.
The…
By: Mike Verdin
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Agrimoney.com
Expansion of palm oil producers into Latin America, the "new frontier for global expansion" is snagging on confusion over land rights – which is encouraging some groups to expand into rainforest.
"Several" palm oil groups with…
By: Mong Palatino
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Global Voices
A drone video captured the extent of burnt oil palms and the clearing of land in the western region of Indonesia. The burning of land is believed to be the cause of the haze that has blanketed Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia…
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: Indonesia Investments
The World Bank estimates that by 2025 Indonesia will have 68 percent of its population living in cities or urban communities. As such, Indonesia’s cities are among the fastest growing cities in the world. However, without a unified spatial…
By: Beh Lih Yi
Date: September 30th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Slum dwellers in Indonesia have launched a landmark legal case to challenge a decades-old law which has been used to forcibly remove thousands of families, amid a wave of evictions…
Just after nine o’clock on a Tuesday morning in June, an environmental activist named Bill Kayong was shot and killed while sitting in his pickup truck, waiting for a traffic light to change in the Malaysian city of Miri, on the island of Borneo. Kayong had been working with a group of villagers…
By: Rachel Diaz-Bastin
Date: December 20th 2016
Source: Mongabay.com
Indonesia is rife with disputes between indigenous communities and plantation firms, but the problem remains poorly understood.
Nearly half of the 187 villages were found to be strongly opposed to oil palm companies. Such a…
Date: 4 January 2017
Source: Mongabay
The Indonesian president moves to keep his promises to the nation’s indigenous groups.
Indonesia is one of the most diverse countries in the world, with hundreds of distinct ethic groups and languages.
The archipelago nation's constitution recognizes its…
Date: 4 January 2017
Source: Mongabay
Indonesia is one of the most diverse countries in the world, with hundreds of distinct ethic groups and languages.
The archipelago nation's constitution recognizes its indigenous peoples, but the government has ignored their rights for most of the country's 71-…
By: Max Walden
Date: 10th January 2017
Source: Asian Correspondent
“THIS is only the beginning,” declared Indonesian President Joko Widodo at a special ceremony at the presidential palace, “[the land being handed back] is still so very small.”
Jokowi, as he is known, ushered in the new…