At dawn, before highways begin filling with trucks and industrial corridors awoke beneath diesel engines, the rivers of ...
When Edy Mulyadi, a journalist and small-time politician, hit the headlines in Indonesia last month for calling the location of its planned new capital city “a place where genies dump kids”, he ...
JAKARTA: In East Kalimantan where Indonesia is building its new capital, a Range Rover costing half a million US dollars has sparked public protests against one of the province's most powerful ...
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, was once covered with dense rainforests. In the 1980s and 1990s Borneo underwent a remarkable transition. Its forests were leveled at a rate unparalleled ...
Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantations in Sumatra and Kalimantan produce ∼ 50% of palm oil worldwide 1, and Indonesia plans to double national palm oil production primarily by expanding landholdings ...
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JAKARTA: The critically endangered Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus), one of the world's rarest freshwater shark species, has ...
BANJARBARU, South Kalimantan: Most people prefer to relax on weekends but diamond miner Salim, 47, does not have the luxury. On a scorching hot Sunday, Salim was toiling in water up to his waist, ...