The ocean breeze of Payum blows gently, carrying stories rarely heard beyond its shores. Along this coast, life ebbs and flows among the sea, family ties, coconut palms, and the empowering labor of Indigenous women......
Forestry law enforcement in Indonesia faces serious challenges, especially in ensuring consistency between criminal verdicts and the application of administrative sanctions. A key instrument in the forestry legal regime is the revocation of Forest Utilization Business Licenses (PBPH) as an administrative sanction for serious violations, such as illegal logging. However, in practice, there are indications of failure in implementing these sanctions. The case of PT Cakra Sejati Sempurna (PT CSS) serves as a clear example of how the mismatch between court rulings and administrative policies risks damaging the integrity of Indonesia's forestry legal system......
That hundreds of kilometers long road has prolonged the grief of the Malind or Malind Anim people, one of the largest tribes inhabiting Merauke, South Papua. In recent decades, various external threats have emerged, including corporations and national strategic projects (PSN). The entire landscape, which has long been meaningful as a living space, is slowly being forced into a new logic: becoming a commodity to be exchanged, exploited, and accumulated. This process alters the Malind people's relationship with their environment, while simultaneously opening a new chapter of conflict between Indigenous communities and large-scale development projects......
Kaoem Telapak has uncovered alleged corporate involvement in illegal logging practices in Southwest Papua Province. This forestry sector crime is suspected to be highly organized. The perpetrators do not act alone; rather, they involve individuals or small-scale investors who play a role in supplying timber raw materials that do not comply with forestry governance to the forestry industry......
The ecological disaster that struck Sumatra in late November and early December 2025 serves as a reflection of the state's failure to protect the people's living space......
