The government of the world's second biggest plastic polluter will issue a policy this year requiring producers and retailers to take greater responsibility for the waste generated by their products.
The Harapan lowland rainforest in Sumatra, one of only 36 global biodiversity hotspots, could be lost to oil palm plantations within the next five years.
Overcoming financing hurdles, local authorities in Indonesia's forest districts engaged with palm oil companies to support sustainable growth. Will these companies deliver on their promises?
A cap-and-trade system helped to eradicate acid rain in the 1990s. Could Southeast Asia's haze problem be beaten in the same way? American Financial Exchange chief Richard Sandor thinks so.
Richard Hardyment –
The Asian miracle has seen living standards rise – but citizens aren’t getting any happier. Companies can help by measuring and improving how people feel about life, writes Richard Hardyment.
Gabrielle Lipton –
Logging is back in the long untouched Tanimbar archipelago, threatening the last national forests of their kind. What can be done to save Indonesia's forests?
Angel Medina-Vaya –
Global warming is creating conditions perfect for the growth of mycotoxins in foods. What does this mean for Southeast Asia, one of the world's major food production regions?
Will traditional models of social security be enough in a region where the future of labour is being disrupted by digitalisation, socio-demographic changes, and globalisation?
Inadequate land rights perpetuate poverty and marginalisation, as numerous cases around the world have shown. What is the link between land tenure and achieving the aims of the Sustainable Development Goals?
The reasons for forest fires are numerous and complex. With hotter and drier temperatures becoming the new normal in parts of the world, the solution is to work with companies, not against them, writes Sinar Mas’ Bernard Tan.
Robin Hicks –
The ad, which was made by Greenpeace and rebadged by Iceland, was blocked from airing on television by the UK's ad watchdog because it broke rules on political advertising. Iceland says it is not anti-palm oil, 'we are anti-deforestation.'
Julie Mollins, Forests News –
With no forests, people lose access to wild food and are forced to purchase more unhealthy food, including packaged foods.
Eco-Business –
The sea of green on the Kampar Peninsula is one of last large intact lowland peatland forests of Sumatra. Five years ago, Restorasi Ekosistem Riau was established to ensure the biodiversity and the livelihoods it supports are protected and restored.
In the past few years, Indonesia has heavily relied on fossil fuel as the main energy source in all economic sectors, ranging from transportation, power plant, to household.
With the tagline "Taking the Pulse of the Planet", State of the World's Birds is a major global assessment that uses bird species to measure the health of our ecosystems ...
Southeast Asia is facing a growing cooling crisis, but its people remain unaware of the threat that inefficient cooling technologies can pose to national development and the environment, finds a ...
Large-scale, human-induced landscape fires in Indonesia have been making headlines since the early 1980s. The impact of these fires is noticeable at the domestic, regional and global spheres in the ...
