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May 20, 2024
Carbon on fire
Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) promises private participation towards a net sink future, but not a fire-proof one
By M.S. CAHYA GEMILANG
May 20, 2024
Balancing the risks
The Mendawai people are aware of the risks forest fires bring, both legally and ecologically, but some continue to use fire as a tool as it is the only affordable...
By HAFIZ AWLIA RAMADHAN
May 20, 2024
Menyeimbangkan resiko
Masyarakat yang berada di Kecamatan Mendawai memahami dampak dan bahaya kebakaran hutan secara ekologis dan hukum, namun beberapa masih menggunakan api sebagai alat utama untuk beraktivitas karena satu-satunya pilihan yang...
By HAFIZ AWLIA RAMADHAN
May 20, 2024
Photo essay: Out of the ashes
Local farmers use small-scale oil palm plantations to provide for their wellbeing, but also as a way to protect their land from wildfire
By MICHAEL DON LOPULALAN
May 20, 2024
Gendered flames
There have been improvements in understandings about the importance of women’s roles in community-based environmental initiatives, but in the realm of fire governance there is still a long way to...
By HANINA NAURA FADHILA & SOFYAN ANSORI
May 20, 2024
Burning distance
Documentary film and social media bring the fires closer to home
By EDWIN JURRIENS, ARYO DANUSIRI & RUGUN SIRAIT
Apr 12, 2024
Film review: Inheriting collective memories through 'Eksil'
A documentary embraced by TikTokers is changing how young people understand Indonesia’s...
By WAHYUDI AKMALIAH
Apr 11, 2024
Indonesians call for climate action through music
Self-education and lived experience of the impacts of climate change, are driving...
By JULIA WINTERFLOOD
Apr 04, 2024
The Jokowi-Luhut alliance
A business alliance forged in 2008 between Joko Widodo and Luhut Pandjaitan...
By JEREMY MULHOLLAND
Mar 19, 2024
Making music together
At Earhouse Songwriting Club music is not only about the performer or...
By ARYA ADYUTA
Mar 07, 2024
An EV-fix for mining
Nickel’s ‘green development’ boost to resource nationalism
By LIAN SINCLAIR & TRISSIA WIJAYA
Feb 20, 2024
Essay: Local tradition in a global religious community in modern day Java
Ghosts and spirits often come up in conversation but attitudes are changing
By LEO BARRY
Feb 08, 2024
Review: Netflix’s ‘Cigarette Girl’ promotes Big Tobacco interests in Indonesia
Netflix’s series Gadis Kretek (Cigarette Girl) romanticises an industry that kills around...
By MARINA WELKER
Feb 01, 2024
Essay: A movement to remember
This essay is the first in a new series featuring the writing...
By GHINA TSABITAH
This Week
Labouring in vain?
HASNA A. FADHILAH
The Labour Party (Partai Buruh) was revived in the wake of opposition to the Omnibus Law on Job Creation, but failure in the 2024 election shows they failed to connect with the workers they aim to represent
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