Welcome to the “Smoke Show”: Workers Suffer, Bosses Celebrate, Officials Applaud
Download the full article Hooray! For a whole month now, our beloved West Kalimantan has become a kind of free “haze resort”. This thin but suffocating…
Environmental Oversight and Law Enforcement in Sanggau Regency: Between Documents and Reality
Download the full article: Read the article When Documents Speak, Nature Cries Out Sanggau Regency, West Kalimantan, stands at a critical crossroads. Its natural wealth has…
Investigative Report: Indicators of Forced Labour, Exploitation and Human Trafficking
Download the full article: Read the article 1. Introduction Oil palm plantations are a strategic sector in West Kalimantan, employing approximately 150,000 people. Behind their economic…
The Paradox of Alumina Exports and West Kalimantan’s Haze Disaster: Political Ecology, Fiscal Policy and Environmental Carrying Capacity
Download the full article An Export Celebration amid the Haze On 7 August 2026, Indonesia announced another achievement in downstream processing. In an official ceremony, 800…
Spatial-Planning Disorder and the Ecological Disasters It Causes
Download the full article Recurring floods, landslides, forest and land fires, and pollution are ecological warning signals for spatial planning. Land use that disregards environmental considerations…
Policy Brief: “A Human Rights Emergency for Palm Oil Workers in Tanjungpura: The Urgent Need for Decisive Action and Regional Rules on Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence”
Recommended policy: urgently enact a Regional Regulation protecting oil palm plantation workers and requiring companies operating in West Kalimantan Province to undertake Mandatory Human Rights Due…