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Archipelago 1 week ago
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Workers demand 175% severance after government revokes TPL's permit
The workers have demanded 1.75 times their wages under a provision for retirement severance pay after the company offered just half their basic severance, while a management representative says the company has not decided on any layoffs as yet.
Academia 1 month ago
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When disasters test Indonesia's legal and recovery systems
The Sumatra disaster in late November indicates that judicial and law enforcement reform is needed to treat environmental destruction and damage as criminal violations, as well as to create a clear and transparent mechanism for the use of related compensation funds.
Society 1 month ago
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Extractive-led economic growth fuels environmental crisis
Around 283,000 hectares of forest, four times the size of Jakarta, were lost throughout 2025 to make way for various extractive businesses across the country, according to the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi).
Archipelago 1 month ago
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Government sues firms over environmental damage linked to Sumatra floods
The government has filed lawsuits against six private companies it believes contributed to massive environmental degradation in North Sumatra following deadly floodings in the region, a move critics say must be followed by stronger commitments to environmental restoration and governance reform.
Academia 2 months ago
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The politics of cash display in nation running out of forests
This is how Indonesia is governed now: by spectacle so crude it dares the public to object, by narratives so inflated they collapse under their own weight, by numbers waved around like talismans against doubt.
