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In today’s Indonesia, civic space is restricted, and violence against environmental and human rights defenders is soaring. And so is deforestation, surging 66% in 2025 compared to the previous year. But the EU could use the...
13/05/2026
The cyclone Senyar that hit Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, 26 November 2025, and the floods and landslides that followed are a catastrophic example of what can happen when extractive activities in forests are left unregulated....
28/01/2026
Despite long-standing concerns and warnings, in September 2025, the EU Commission and Government of Indonesia signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), the product of nearly a decade of negotiations. Given the...
15/10/2025
When the EU deforestation regulation (EUDR) came into force in June 2023 it was greeted as an historic moment in the fight to protect the world’s endangered forests.
The law signaled the EU’s resolve to end its complicity in...
24/09/2025
Brussels, 23 September, 2025 – Today’s free trade agreement between the EU and Indonesia is a win for transnational companies at the expense of forests and vulnerable peoples.
After nine years of negotiations, Indonesia and...
23/09/2025
The EUDR will enter into force at the end of 2025, following a one-year delay, but there is evidence that it has already triggered political efforts to better protect forests in tropical and EU forested countries.
This...
23/06/2025
Indonesian CSO Pusaka offer insight into grassroots-level impacts to encourage the EU to use the EUDR and other trade instruments to help.
Despite the political upheaval surrounding the EU Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR),...
05/03/2025
Nickel is a key component in EV batteries, and Indonesia has the greatest reserves of it on earth. But extracting it in Kabaena island - where mining companies have been granted licences to 73% of the territory - is destroying...
13/12/2024
The recent conference of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, raised high hopes for transformative action to address the escalating climate crisis. Its outcomes largely fell short,...
12/12/2024
Indonesia’s abundant nickel reserves are crucial for a low carbon world. But extracting them is ruining local peoples’ lives and causing rampant deforestation
09/12/2024
