Forests

Rich countries should pay big bucks to reduce emissions in the developing world

Burgeoning industrial areas in Java have eaten up Indonesian self-sufficiency in rice production. To compensate, an area of peat swamp in Kalimantan a third the size of the Netherlands is being converted to rice land. IRIP NEWS SERVICE investigates.

The fires were no natural disaster, says JOKO WALUYO. The smoking gun is in the hands of plantation companies.

It's lonely in the Forestry Minister's office, says GERRY VAN KLINKEN.

Millions of hectares of pristine tropical forest and thousands of indigenous people are at risk. FRANCES CARR outlines Habibie's 'techno dream' for Irian Jaya.

The fires are merely adding to the pressure on East Kalimantan's only national park. But ALEX RYAN also finds that nature lovers have won some battles to protect its beauty.

Across Kalimantan by boat and on foot

A weak government struggles with 'people power', poverty and pulp companies

Greed and stupidity destroy the last peatland wilderness, home to thousands of orangutan

Suharto cronies control an ASEAN-wide oil palm industry with an appalling environmental record

Protest poetry lives on in post-Suharto Indonesia

Orang Rimba assert their rights

The Forestry Law has not stopped mining in Indonesia's state forests

For the Forest Tobelo people, regional autonomy is a mixed blessing

Military business brings many problems to Papua