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A case study of two oil palm concessions in West Kalimantan found all recorded fires between 2019 and 2024 occurred within community-controlled enclave areas rather than company-managed plantation ...
News Indonesia » West Kalimantan: Indonesia beefs up security presence to prepare for student protests
Hundreds of Indonesian security personnel were deployed on Wednesday in anticipation of student protests against several of President Prabowo Subianto's policies, as well as his government's handling ...
News Indonesia » West Kalimantan: El Niño-powered drought leaves Indonesian palm farmers high and dry as river recedes
Supendi, a 33-year-old palm fruit farmer, cooled his heels at a mill in Indonesia's West Kalimantan for four frustrating days earlier this month trying to unload his harvest of fresh fruit bunches ...
News Indonesia » West Kalimantan: Indonesian students protest over forest fires, Prabowo policies
Hundreds of Indonesian students and civil society groups staged protests on Wednesday in cities including the capital Jakarta against President Prabowo Subianto's policies, including the handling of ...
News Indonesia » West Kalimantan: Indonesia relocates 8 orangutans into protected forest after rescue from wildfires
Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Eight endangered orangutans, including three ...
News Indonesia » West Kalimantan: Wildfires in West Kalimantan prompt rescue of 53 orangutans
Wildfires in Indonesia's West Kalimantan are devastating orangutan habitats, leaving the endangered primates injured and reliant on rescue efforts as their forest homes burn.
News Indonesia » West Kalimantan: West Kalimantan ISPU surges above 1,000 as pollutants spread regionally - National Disaster Mitigation Agency
This aerial picture shows haze due to forest and land fires blanketing Pontianak, Indonesia's West Kalimantan province on Sept 1, 2026. - Photo: AFP JAKARTA: (Bernama) The Air Pollutant Standard Index ...
News Indonesia » West Kalimantan: Protesters in Indonesia Demand Action to Stop Fires in Rainforests
Smoke from the blazes, blamed on destructive agricultural practices, has sickened hundreds of thousands and blanketed neighboring countries.
News Indonesia » West Kalimantan: Indonesia battles surge in forest fires as West Kalimantan hotspots nearly double on Monday (Aug 31)
Firefighters attempt to extinguish a wildfire by spraying water and creating boundary trenches to prevent the flames from spreading in the Tumbang Nusa area of Pulang Pisau, Central Kalimantan, on ...
News Indonesia » West Kalimantan: Indonesia prioritises Kalimantan region as wildfire hotspots rise
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person uses a mobile phone to capture visuals of a wildfire burning in Lamandau forest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, August ...
News Indonesia » West Kalimantan: Indonesia: First rains bring relief to haze-hit Sumatra and Kalimantan
JAKARTA – When heavy rain finally swept across parts of Palembang on the afternoon of Oct 24, many residents of the South Sumatran capital did not run for cover. They reached for their phones. Within ...