Environment

Environment

Air
Cleaning up Indonesia's air and water/ Robert Cribb 23:Jun 90.


Biodiversity
In the forests of the night - Living with tigers in South Aceh/ John McCarthy 65:Jan 01
'They just want love...' - Saving the orangutans/ Willie Smits 56:Oct 98.
Rare birds die in West Java - Poor villagers prey on migrating birds/ John McCarthy 54:Apr 98.
Volunteers rescue reefs - Operation Wallacea / Helen Landymore 54:Apr 98.
Operation Wallacea / Mark Erdmann 54:Apr 98.
Ecotourism - can it save the orangutans?/ Rachel Drewryl 51:Jul 97.
Hope for the one-horned rhino/ Stephen Carr 36:Sep 93.
How tourists can save the sea turtle - Bali tourists should boycott turtle products/ 35:Jun 93.
The Asian elephant loses ground/ Stephen Carr 35:Jun 93.
Ten orangutans hit the news/ 29:Dec 91.
The state of the garden - Indonesia's amazing biological diversity threatened/ Laura Murphy 17:Dec 88.


Cities

Prisma, The cities of Janus - Two faces of transformation/ Kathy Robinson 33:Dec 92.
Jakarta's 3-in-1 policy - New law to beat traffic congestion/ Diana Rice 32:Sep 92.
Orange light for new traffic laws - Revolt delays draconian laws/ 32:Sep 92.
The case for the becak - Economic and environmental arguments/ Helen Moriarty 32:Sep 92.
Yogya - don't get off your bike! - plea to preserve a place for the bicycle/ Freda Erlich 32:Sep 92.
Outlawing the little people - Ridding Jakarta of becaks and pedlars/ Paulus Budirahardjo 23:Jun 90.
Leave our becaks alone (statement by becak drivers)/ 22:Mar 90.
Becaks out of Jakarta/ Nurul Fazri 5:Jul 85.

Climate change

The world is not (green) enough - Trying to slow climate change/ Agus P Sari 62:Apr 00.
What is climate change?/ Agus P Sari 62:Apr 00.
Sinking carbon in Kalimantan - CDM could help Indonesia's forests/ Merrilyn Wasson 62:Apr 00.

Environmental analysis

Philip Hirsch & Carol Warren (eds), The politics of environment in Southeast Asia/ Vanessa Johanson 60:Oct 99.
The politics of environmentalism - Interview with George Aditjondro/ Krishna Sen 41:Dec 94.
Development and indigenous peoples - An Indonesian environmental conference/ Clive Rosewarne 38:Mar 94.
The earth summit - An Indonesian perspective/ Zukri Saad and Triwuryani 35:Jun 93.
Joan Hardjono (ed), Indonesia - Resources, ecology and environment/ Peter Durkin 34:Mar 93.
Indonesia scores success with pesticide ban/ Halinah Todd 16:Oct 88.
Conservation in a crowded place/ Robert Cribb 10:Apr 87.



Forests

Reformasi and Riau's forests - Government, 'people power', poverty and pulp/ Lesley Potter and Simon Badcock 65:Jan 01
Kalimantan's peatland disaster - Greed and stupidity destroy the last peatland wilderness/ Jack Rieley 65:Jan 01.
Indorayon's last gasp? - Popular protest closes a huge paper and pulp mill in Sumatra/ Frances Carr 65:Jan 01.
Suharto's fires - Suharto cronies control an ASEAN-wide oil palm industry/ George J Aditjondro 65:Jan 01.
Sinking carbon in Kalimantan - CDM could help Indonesia's forests/ Merrilyn Wasson 62:Apr 00.
Gutted by greed - Illegal logging in Indonesia's parks/ Julian Newman 61:Jan 00.
Palm oil - Bad news for forests and people/ Eric Wakker 58:Apr 99.
Magic on fire - Protecting Kutai Park in East Kalimantan/ Alex Ryan 55:Jul 98.
Smoking gun - plantation companies are to blame for Indonesia's fires/ Joko Waluyo 53:Jan 98.
Taking on the timber tycoons - Forestry Minister has a tough job/ Gerry van Klinken 53:Jan 98.
Of money and trees - 19th century growth triangle/ Freek Colombijn 49:Jan 97.
Politics and peat - The one million hectare sawah project/ 48:Oct 96.
Forest fires in Kalimantan/ 41:Dec 94.
Shifting cultivators - Forest managers or forest destroyers/ Diana Rice 41:Dec 94.
Shannon L Smith, The politics of Indonesian rainforests/ Peter Durkin 37:Dec 93.
Missing the wood for the trees - Are plantations the answer?/ Peter Durkin 35:Jun 93.
Chopping up Kalimantan - A traveller is appalled at the rate of logging/ Mark James 34:Mar 93.
Logging and the sinking island - The people of Yamdena fear they will lose the island itself/ SKEPHI 33:Dec 92.
Growing money on trees - New forestry scheme in Aceh/ 31:Jun 92.
The last stand of the Moi people - Local people in Sorong resist logging/ 31:Jun 92.
Logging the Asmat's land - A personal encounter/ Kirsty Sword 27:Jun 91.
Forest destruction in South Kalimantan/ Lesley Potter 16:Oct 88.
A new threat to Irian Jaya forests/ George Aditjondro 16:Oct 88.
Forest Fires - Logging is to blame/ Heri Achmadi 14:Apr 88.



Mining

Mine thy neighbour - Australia needs to control miners/ Jeff Atkinson 65: Jan 01.
Get your act together, Aussie! - Troubles without Suharto/ Jeff Atkinson 65: Jan 01.
Dirty landlord - Local views on Sulawesi's Inco mine/ Roger Moody 60:Oct 99.
Revisiting Inco - Reformasi hits Sulawesi's 'Freeport'/ Kathryn Robinson 60:Oct 99.
Douglas Goold & Andrew Willis, The Bre-X fraud/ Extract 53:Jan 98.
Freeport update/ Nic Maclellan 49:Jan 97.
Defending the victims of mining/ Jeff Atkinson 47:Jul 96.
They don't consider us real humans/ Pieter Yan Magal (interview) 47:Jul 96.
Military abuses near Freeport/ 45:Dec 95.
Freeport's Australian links/ 45:Dec 95.
Freeport loses its insurance - OPIC/ 45:Dec 95.
Australian goldmine damages rivers - PT IMK in Central Kalimantan/ WALHI 45:Dec 95.
The polluted Ajikwa river - Freeport mine is getting off lightly/ 25:Dec 90.
Indonesia's gold rush - A minefield of claims/ Diana Rice 21:Dec 89.

NGOs

Spread the word - an environmental quiet achiever in East Java/ Melody Kemp 51:Jul 97.
PLASMA - Environmental NGO in Kalimantan/ 45:Dec 95.
Making Indonesia's green laws work - Achmad Santosa of Indonesian Centre for Environmental Law ICEL/ Peter Durkin 43:Jun 95.
NGO's feel the pressure/ Todd, Halinah 17:Dec 88.
SKEPHI (Secretariat for Forest Conservation)/ 14:Apr 88.

Nuclear energy

Indonesia's nuclear debate - The anti-nuclear campaign in Java/ August Schlapfer 40:Sep 94.
Fuelling danger on the doorstep - Nuclear power in Indonesia/ Clive Hamilton 36:Sep 93.
Engineers in public - The nuclear debate in Indonesia/ Gerry van Klinken 33:Dec 92.
Government moves on nuclear energy/ Mary Johnston 26:Mar 91.
Indonesia going nuclear/ Jim Falk 14:Apr 88.

Rivers

Australian goldmine damages rivers - PT IMK in Central Kalimantan/ WALHI 45:Dec 95.
A river runs through it - The poisoning of the Nusupan River/ Pak Slamet 38:Mar 94.
Cleaning up Indonesia's air and water/ Robert Cribb 23:Jun 90.
The Porsea pulpmill debacle/ Andrew Dodd 19:Jul 89.
Friction on the waterways (river transport)/ George Aditjondro 18:Apr 89.

Seas

Saving Bunaken/ Mark Erdmann 65:Jan 01
Villagers keep the seas alive/ Ian Dutton & Brian Crawford 55:Jul 98.
Volunteers rescue reefs - Operation Wallacea / Helen Landymore 54:Apr 98.
Operation Wallacea / Mark Erdmann 54:Apr 98.
Tomas Tomascik et al, The ecology of the Indonesian seas / Ian Dutton 54:Apr 98.
The mask men - Diving for sea cucumber off Sumatra/ Marlis Lubis 50:Apr 97.
Siberut - A threatened island/ 29:Dec 91.
Turtles, trepang and trouble/ Robin Osborne 21:Dec 89.
Mangrove forests endangered by development/ Hira Jhamtani 20:Oct 89.



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