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KOLAKA, Indonesia Ansal grabbed a makeshift raincoat, an empty rice sack, and ran home as the rain began to pound the fields of Pomalaa. A few hours later, after the rain stopped, the 49-year-old returned to his fields. “Everything is red,” Ansal told Mongabay Indonesia, here in Kolaka district in the province of Southeast […]
SIBAGANDING, Indonesia After Abdulrahman Manik’s father passed away in 2019, the young man inherited a duty to protect wild monkeys here in the north of Sumatra Island. Years later, he’s a savior of scores of primates, and the star of a documentary nominated for awards at film festivals in Indonesia. “Na… eee…, naa… eee…,” […]
PASURUAN, Indonesia Indonesia is one of the world’s largest producers of food commodities, but until recently this archipelago of 270 million people produced relatively little avocado. Julianto Effendi is among a growing number of farmers trying to change that. “In the past [avocado] wasn’t really given much of a look,” Julianto told Mongabay Indonesia […]
JAKARTA Indonesia has made strides in developing its plantation industry, catapulting the country into the world’s largest producer of palm oil. Its sprawling plantations produce more than half of the palm oil consumed by the global market. With the rapid expansion of palm oil plantations come a number of issues, from deforestation to agrarian […]