Blog Posts: forest

Indonesia’s forests are critical to the food security, agricultural production, health, safety, and livelihoods of its citizens. Integrating forest into a long-term investment strategy would have at least three benefits.

With Indonesia’s government and citizens facing the twin public health and economic crises precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic, it would be understandable if few people are thinking about the country’s forests. But even now, short-term policy actions and omissions can have immediate and lasting implications for forests. Here are four suggestions for Indonesia as it navigates through the current storm.

This Seventh Edition features the 5 Places to Watch for indications of illegal logging within the period between 1 July to 30 September 2019.

The laws and regulations on recognition of indigenous communities and their right to land is deemed to fail without the buy-in from the communities themselves.

Swidden agriculture is part of the livelihood (either fully or partly) for 14 to 34 million rural people in Southeast Asia.

Before One Map Policy, Ministries, Government Agencies' and Local Governments' data, maps and geospatial information are a silo. As a result, more land-use overlaps occur which causing land conflicts in Indonesia. The presence of One Map Policy can be used to resolve these conflicts.

Building a new capital on Borneo may not improve conditions within Jakarta, and will require large infrastructure improvements in the new location. Looking at the variety of data on Resource Watch and Global Forest Watch, we’ve compiled five maps that show issues to consider before moving the capital.

We cannot deny that forest fires are still happening today. However, we should also see responsible farmers who care about the environment. This article written by Thontowi Suhada will focus on these farmers in two regencies in Riau who are trying to be more responsible.

Relocating the capital city could put immense pressure on new areas and might not remedy the flooding and gridlock affecting Jakarta.

Forests are complex places that attract an intertwining network of positive and negative forces. Indonesia is a place that knows this all too well with its incredible expanse of rainforests being both a place of immense life and horrifying destruction.