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Javanese nemophilist, lifter, sustainability, support zero deforestation, the voiceless, climate. This is my only social media account.

Sydney, New South Wales
Joined November 2009
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4 years
Save Sumatran #Tigers End #deforestation Before it’s too late
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If you see this & you can’t see anything wrong with it; if you can’t see anything wrong with massive economic development & #deforestation & still refer the country as climate super power, then something is really wrong with you. Location: East Kalimantan
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"Sorry Miss, there's heavy traffic. Tomorrow is Labour Day, a national holiday," said my taxi driver in Jakarta. "Will there be demonstrations on the streets tomorrow?" I asked. "No Miss, no more demonstrations here. There's no point. All demands are ignored and fallen on
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Dear Lord. Indonesia.
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This image touched my heart. 📷 Rainita
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“Economic development must not stop in the name of deforestation.”
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Nothing to see here. It’s just the poor queuing for cooking oil in the largest producer of #palmoil in the world. 📷 Endridok
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A mother Sumatran #tiger (Panthera tigris) & her cubs curled lifeless covered in dirt in a protected forest in Aceh, Sumatra Indonesia. If not in protected forests, where else would they go? Why were they not protected? The start of an ecosystem collapse.
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#WorldWildlifeDay [A message from Indonesia, a female, almost hairless #orangutan with her baby in their new mining ‘habitat’]
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Finally good news from Indonesia: A baby girl Sumatran rhino was born in the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary, Way Kambas National Park, Sumatra! Congrats pak Wir!
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Indonesia has converted 243,857 hectares of forest area per year into oil palm plantations since 1990. But a new research found that the Indonesian government could benefit more economically from maintaining its forest areas, rather than converting them to oil palm plantations.
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Just one month after a cub was killed by poison last month, now another Sumatran tiger has been found dead, strangled by its neck, in Aceh Sumatra. A nation is judged by the way its animals are treated Indonesia. What has the Ministry of the Environment
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The condition of #orangutans near coal mining areas in East Borneo is deplorable. They are skin and bones, starving after losing their homes and food sources. Economic development is fine, but economic development at the expense of the environment and other living things is not
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They run the country as if it was 1875. #Wadas
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How nickel mining kills your river. Location: Wawonii Island, Southeast Sulawesi. 📹 via LaodeMSyarif
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13 poachers have slaughtered 26 Javan rhinos in Ujung Kulon national park, Java, Indonesia. This number may represent half of the Javan rhino population. The horns are sold on the international black market. These majestic giants are being decimated, on the brink of extinction.
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It’s breathing. Don’t choke the forest.
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This is how these elementary school kids go to school everyday in Riau, Sumatra. Riau is one of the richest provinces in Indonesia, full of resources such as oil, natural gas, rubber, oil palm and pulpwood plantations. Where’s the bridge, the school bus?
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Indonesia was Singapore’s major supplier of sea sand for land expansion, shipping more than 53 million T/year between 1997-2002. Indonesia's president lifted the export ban this month, while Singapore plans the mega Tuas Port project. Sand exports are thought to be responsible
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I don’t know about you. But watching this video brought a tear to my eyes. Tigers will not do this unless their home is disturbed, or gone.
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In 6 months, more than a thousand hectares of forest in Papua, including historically important customary forests, have been destroyed for the expansion of oil palm plantations and industrial plantations. The locals are demanding their forests be restored.
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Yesterday a lost, weak and hungry orang utan entered a village in East Kalimantan. Residents tried to provide help, by providing food. How often we need to witness this cruelty? End #deforestation . Restore orang utan habitats. They have nowhere else to go.
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Daniel, an Indonesian environmental activist trying to save the mangroves and sea around Karimunjawa from exploitation, was sentenced to prison by the District Court. He was reported by a 'newly established organisation'. Indonesia has laws that guarantee protection for
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“This is me when I was free.”
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Indonesian marine sand is now for sale! [in addition to other natural resources] Note: Two dozen Indonesian islands disappeared around the same time Singapore imported 17 million tons of sand for its massive 50-mile land expansion.
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Batam, Riau Islands Indonesia, 8 September 2023. #IndigenousRights #HumanRights
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The rather isolated Meratus Montane Forests in South Kalimantan Indonesia, where new species are likely still to be discovered. Hope it will remain protected from deforestation and mining activities.
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An inscription made from andesite stone unearthed in East Java Indonesia. Experts believed that it contained a curse written during the era of Mpu Sindok the last king of the Sanjaya dynasty who ruled the Mataram Kingdom in the 10th century AD. Amazing.
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20 houses swallowed by the sea in North Sulawesi. Just like that. More residents were urged to evacuate. #ClimateCrisis 📹 BNPB
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The unpaid guardian for the dead. Bless them.
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A Sumatran tiger, recently released in a national park, died horribly with stab wounds. An expert told the Ministry of Environment & Forestry not to release a tiger into the wild without proper preparation. #Deforestation has diminished large landscapes.
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Burning Papua.
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After the deadly #Semeru eruption in Indonesia, rescue workers and volunteers continue to dig through thick layers of volcanic mud to find survivors, animals included. At least 34 people died, and 22 were missing.
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After one month under water, the Head of the National Disaster Management Agency visited Sintang. “There’s no flood from 1990 to 2010 in the area. But that has changed after the environmental damage in the last decade,” he said.
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#Wadas community in Indonesia objected to andesite mining for ‘Bener Dam National Strategic Project’. Hundreds of local farmers are impacted. "About 60 residents, from children and elderly have been arrested,” said local Legal Aid.
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Several towns in West Kalimantan Indonesia have been under water for three weeks. The governor and NGOs blame it on #deforestation and mining activities.
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The sinking communities in Java and Kalimantan. A heartbreaking story from the sole caretaker of the disappearing village... #ClimateChange
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The most common strategy.
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Whoaa… Lembah Anai waterfall, West Sumatra. When water cannot be absorbed anymore.
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There are 1.88 million hectares of #palmoil plantations in #Papua . In addition to the #deforestation , the plantations did not improve the economic welfare of the Papuan people, found a new report.
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Two more Sumatran #tigers (Pantera Tigris Sumatrae) were found dead in a wire trap in the forest in Aceh Indonesia. I lost count how many Sumatran tigers have been found dead or involved in tiger-human conflicts this year alone. #deforestation
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When the boy said that he was 8 years old… My heart stopped. 📹 @watchdoc_ID
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A glimpse into the revealing world of #palmoil in Indonesia right now - what a dark dark world: from deforestation, oligopolies, corruption, cheating smallholder farmers, overpriced cooking oil, to attempts to change the country's constitution.
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Meanwhile, Papua is flooded.
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After Central Kalimantan and West Kalimantan, now South Kalimantan Indonesia is flooded. 🎥 Juwang_Muda #deforestation
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The poly-bag estate has replaced the jungle of Borneo.
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The blue whale just off the coast of Sydney yesterday. The third sighting in 100 years...
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About 800 KM from Indonesia’s planned new capital city, the Punan Batu tribe lives in the disappearing forest in Borneo. The unrecognised tribe has Pre-Austronesian genetic characteristics from 8,000 years ago. Not just a bunch of camping enthusiasts.
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Clouded leopards roared, orang utans got lost as they watched their wildlife corridors in Borneo being destroyed for a toll road construction to Nusantara the new capital city of Indonesia.  Artificial ‘corridors’ will be built for them, as the construction [of the toll road]
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The arrogance, greed and ignorance that you can see from this CEO of a Canadian company is evident. It’s obvious that he doesn’t care about biodiversity and local communities’ voice in Sangihe Indonesia, to get his ‘millions of dollars’.
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Baluran National Park in East Java, home to endangered Javanese banteng and leopards, is on fire. Firefighters were nowhere to be seen. And I thought everyone has been briefed in anticipation of #ElNi ño
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Electric vehicles and their need for cobalt. That’s what happens when traceability, overall impact measurement and mitigation are not implemented.
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One of my cousins, a very strict moslem, is one of the #COVID19 funeral team volunteers in Yogyakarta Indonesia. His team has been tirelessly burying so many people, regardless of religion. The team receives nothing but milk and cup noodles at the end of the day. God bless them.
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This is the Jatigede Reservoir in West Java, Indonesia
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Students learning Javanese mannerisms. It’s so sweet. I remember how I squat walked around my blue blooded grant parents (ꦩ꧀ꦭꦏꦸꦣꦺꦴꦢꦺꦴꦏ꧀) when I was young.
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Are these the same #orangutans found in the IDXM's mining site, which borders PT GAM's mining site in East Kutai in Borneo?
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The key Indonesian animals on the verge of extinction: 1. Komodo dragon 2. Orang Utan 3. Sumatran tiger 4. Sumatran elephant 5. Javan & Sumatran rhinoceros 6. Bali Starling & Bird of Paradise How many left in the wild? Nobody knows due to lack of data.
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“It’s up to the family to keep their loved ones alive.”
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Indigenous communities are joining forces to reject the presence of oil palm companies in South Papua. We have lost our forests, our source of life and are fed up with their false promises to send our children to school, they said.
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If only we could understand him… [The endangered proboscis monkey or long-nosed monkey, an arboreal Old World monkey, surrounded by forest loggers]
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This reminds me of my own experience trying to walk on floating logs in the river in East Kalimantan. Totally deadly.
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Indonesia’s significant figures in history. This moved me. Raden Saleh was dashing.
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4 elephants died in North Sumatra in 5 months due to financial crisis in Wildlife Sanctuary. The Environment Ministry told conservationists not to disclose the crisis to the public. It's a shame, elephants could still be alive if help was given in time.
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19 critically endangered Sumatran #Tigers died during 2019-2022. In 2023 so far 4 tigers have died in North Sumatra and Aceh! #extinction #deforestation
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Dear Lord. Just look at the heartbreaking photo. The wives tried to sell their crops to make ends meet outside the courthouse, while their farmer husbands were in court accused of stealing oil palm fruit on their own land, by the giant Harita Palm Oil Group. 📷 @budibaskoro
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The whole world is calling for the protection of Sumatran #tigers and an end to #wildlifetrade while the chair of the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly proudly promotes the skin of the majestic creature as a decoration.
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Geez, look at this ‘beach’. Location: Banten, Java, Indonesia.
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Two pig hunters from Aceh Sumatra were sentenced to 16 months in prison for killing tigers with their pig snares. What about the people who destroyed the tiger habitats?
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“This is our customary land, our customary forest. We live with nature. Don't let the [ #palmoil ] company destroy our forests and rivers.” 📹 @BentalaRakyat #Papua
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The disappearance of Lake Toju: The lake was just a memory after the arrival of the #palmoil company. With the lake gone, so did the community's ‘mosango’, the traditional way of catching fish. The ‘lake’ is now a 20 meters wide pond.
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This is sad. “Please take care of our environment, the impacts are massive. What do you want our country to be?…” he said, while cleaning the trash the government and their guests left behind in the proposed new capital city in Borneo, Indonesia.
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I love Labuan Bajo. But the blue whale, spotted last year, is just otherworldly.
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A beautiful living dragon.
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Today housewives who organised a peaceful prayer rally in Jambi, Sumatra, to defend their livelihood land that was seized by an oil palm company were dispersed by the police.
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Dear Lord... What are we. Photo source:
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Just listen to the cries of the birds and the forest while their home is being bulldozed for #PalmOil in Sorong Papua. ‘Lower #deforestation rate’ means continued deforestation. Source: @angkytm
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Keluarga muslim di Inggris membuka restoran mereka untuk memberi makan gratis bagi kaum tuna wisma dan miskin untuk merayakan di hari Natal 🎄 #natal2019
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So cute. The kagu or cagou (Rhynochetos jubatus) is a crested, long-legged, and bluish-grey bird endemic to the dense mountain forests of New Caledonia. It is the only surviving member of the genus Rhynochetos and the family Rhynochetidae.
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Some of you ask, what can you do to help: tell your governments and companies to end deforestation and to restore critical habitats. Don’t support those who destroy our planet in the name of economic development.
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While you were sleeping, thousands of hectares of rainforest in Borneo were bulldozed by a group of companies whose products are probably in your wardrobe and office. 📷 by @GreenpeaceID
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The price of nickel for the people of Sulawesi. "We live in red mud, our crops are gone." Global supply chains must ensure that their raw materials meet global #sustainability standards.
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The Punan Batu people are hunters & gatherers. But with forest disappearing, they often consume only carbohydrates. The existence of their population group has not been recognised in Indonesia so that access and basic services for them are still limited.
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Dear @JustinTrudeau , with your strong commitment to #climatechange , why a Canadian company has an operation permit to mine more than half of an island in Indonesia, threatening its forests, river, mangrove, biodiversity & livelihood of local communities?
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A gentle reminder. #ClimateCrisis
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For years PetroChina International Jabung Ltd, a giant Chinese oil and condensate producer, has been operating in forest areas in Jambi, Sumatra without a licence.
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Amazing. Just amazing.
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Unfortunately, this is becoming an increasingly common sight in East Borneo. 📹 info_newsantara
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When I know that things are not alright.
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The love of a mother. Elephants are sentient.
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One small addition: the Widi islands are inside a marine-protected zone as ‘one of the most intact coral atoll ecosystems left on Earth’.
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Kok bisa 100 pulau di Maluku mau dijual dan sedang di lelang di New York??
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These gold miners destroyed the forest in West Aceh, a critical tiger habitat, as if the forest has no value. We can’t ignore this.
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Golden treasure? Or gold mine waste? Is it normal for a river to look like this? Location: Banti, Papua Indonesia. Video via angkytm
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How to destroy carbon and biodiversity-rich peat forest in Indonesian Borneo. 📹 by Mighty Earth
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Lies. It’s about you and your greed. You don’t need to try to justify.
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In Rempang, Batam, Riau Islands Province, health centre services have been suspended and public schools relocated since August 2023 due to the construction of the China-backed Rempang Eco City project. This is an act of forced eviction of #IndigenousPeoples and local communities
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