Indonesia community activism news

• The bold model stopping deforestation in its tracks, positive.news (Oct 13, 2025) — Rainforests are powerful carbon sinks and crucial to climate stability. A pioneering effort to protect them involves providing cash to forest communities so they don’t need to accept offers from loggers
• ‘Draw the Line’ in Asia: Community organizers call for climate justice and accountability, globalvoices.org (Sep 30, 2025)
• From coal to crops: Dayak women lead a just transition through backyard farming, theconversation.com (Jul 17, 2025)
• Leading the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates, indigenous conservationists, news.mongabay.co (May 15, 2025)
• Indonesian government plans network of village co-ops to tackle poverty, thenews.coop (Apr 19, 2025) — Ministers plan up to 80,000 rural co-ops offering financial services, medical facilities, and farm logistics, storage and distribution
• Five ways that illustrations can tell climate justice stories, theconversation.com (Feb 11, 2025)

• Growing back a forest for his people, a one-time illegal logger in Sumatra, news.mongabay.com (Aug 30, 2024)
• Bali gives a snapshot of what ‘overtourism’ looks like in the developing world, theconversation.com (Aug 19, 2024)
• Indigenous communities get tech and training on vital early warning systems, positive.news (Mar 22, 2024)
• ‘It gets your stomach churning’: the team wading through nappies to clean up Bali’s waterways, theguardian.com (Jan 17, 2024)

• ‘A bus is open to everyone regardless of class’: riding the world’s biggest network, theguardian.com (Nov 30, 2023)
• The ‘Power of Mama’ fight Borneo’s wildfires with all-woman crew, news.mongabay.com (Nov 10, 2023)
• Outlaw fisher turns reef marshal in Indonesia’s Sumbawa, news.mongabay.com (Oct 31, 2023)
• Community-led coral restoration project is rare hit amid slew of misses in Indonesia, news.mongabay.com (May 04, 2023)
• Indigenous Peoples defend a precious natural resource- empowering them protects us all, ashden.org (Feb 14, 2023)

• Pacific groups celebrate Ocean Week by opposing deep sea mining, Global Voices (Jun 20, 2022) — Pacific groups have unveiled an alternative agenda promoting a “blue economy” that focuses on ocean protection and grassroots development

• Gen Z on how to save the world: young climate activists speak out, The Guardian (Oct 17, 2021) — Features activists from Philippines, Australia, India, US, Uganda, Pakistan, Peru, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Kenya and Canada

• Indonesia haze causes sky to turn blood red, Sep 23, 2019...^[1]
• Energy democracy way to go for Indonesia, Feb 1, 2018...^[2]
• In Jakarta, solving problems with new tech tools and people power, Oct 12, 2017...^[3]
• How a Cooperative in Indonesia is Bridging the Digital Divide, May 4, 2017...^[4]
• Indonesian president hands over management of forests to indigenous people, Feb 20, 2017...^[5]

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• A small island in the Indian Ocean offers big lessons on clean power, Mar 27, 2016...^[1]
• In Indonesia, a new tool helps communities protect their land from fire, Mar 16, 2016...^[2]
• Two Teenagers Convinced Bali to Ban Plastic Bags, March 10, 2016...^[3]
• Indonesian Cities Now Charging Shoppers for Plastic Bags, February 21, 2016...^[4]

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• Surviving the long dry season in Konawe Selatan with improved farming systems, Nov 6, 2015...^[1]
• The indigenous community whose forest is their supermarket, October 28, 2015...^[2]
• Sumba Island was once one of poorest areas of Indonesia. That was before Sulis Setiawati came along, September 10, 2015...^[3]
• Making smart cities work for people. No 1: Crowdsourcing flood maps in Jakarta, July 15, 2015...^[4]
• A Decade After Asian Tsunami, New Forests Protect the Coast, December 5, 2014...^[5]
• Tools for Participatory budgeting in Indonesia, February 3, 2012...^[6]
• Indonesia to stop handing out permits for companies to chop down rainforests and drain peatlands for two years, but deal does not protect millions of hectares of rainforest,^[7] May 27, 2010.

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