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Dec 11, 2024 | 
context.news | Adi Renaldi |Asad Asnawi
What’s the context?
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Asad Asnawi
Indonesia accounts for more sharks caught in open water than any other country, but fish stocks around the main island of Java are in crisis due to years of overfishing by large vessels using purse seine nets. In the fishing port of Brondong, a major landing site in East Java province, fishers continue to process dozens of species of sharks caught increasingly far from the world’s most populous island.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Asad Asnawi
A copper mine in Pacitan district on the island of Java has been temporarily closed by Indonesia’s mining ministry after contaminated irrigation water allegedly harmed food crops belonging to 200 families. A lawyer for the company, PT Gemilang Limpah Internusa, told Mongabay Indonesia the company would conduct remedial measures and aim to reopen the mine within months.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Asad Asnawi
In early August, several youth organizations affiliated with Muhammadiyah, Indonesia’s second-largest Islamic organization, released a public petition calling on its leadership to cancel its plans to operate coal mines. The decision by the Muhammadiyah leadership board was made in July after Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, amended mining rules to enable religious organizations to enter the mining industry.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Asad Asnawi
In May 2024, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, signed a new regulation to enable the country’s religious organizations to become mining operators. The policy has been criticized extensively by civil society groups, some of which view the move as the result of a political bargain for Nahdlatul Ulama, the country’s largest Islamic organization, to deliver votes to Jokowi’s chosen successor in the February 2024 presidential election.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Michael Taylor |Asad Asnawi
It was still pitch-black outside when Indonesian housewife Sutinah made her way to a local police station early one morning last month, hoping to avoid queues and take advantage of a government scheme offering affordable rice. Even though dry weather fueled by El Nino has led to a rice shortage and sent prices to record highs, the 52-year-old from the East Java town of Pasuruan was still shocked to see hundreds of likeminded residents already waiting patiently in line.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Asad Asnawi
Rice farmers in Cokrokembang village, East Java province, suspect contamination from a nearby copper mine operated by PT Gemilang Limpah Internusa is to blame for recent crop failures. Water pollution from the mine is visible in the Kedung Pinihan River, while tests conducted by the local government reveal levels of copper compounds far exceeding environmental standards.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Asad Asnawi
Over a period of four months in late 2023, Mongabay spoke with fishers and traders dealing primarily in rays and sharks in Indonesia’s East Java province. Advertisements for shark and ray products continued to feature on social media platforms despite pledges by companies to prevent users from conducting transactions in wildlife. Indonesia’s fisheries ministry said more needs to be done to enhance traceability to crack down on trade in protected shark and ray species.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Michael Taylor |Asad Asnawi
Aeshnina Azzahra Aqilani is too young to vote in Indonesia's elections this month but that hasn't stopped her from demanding the three presidential candidates adopt greener policies to combat the climate crisis.
Over the last six months, the 16-year-old student collected almost 1,000 letters, both online and at schools and colleges, from young people across her home province of East Java.
The writers — 60% of whom will be first-time voters in the presidential and legislative elections on Feb.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
news.mongabay.com | Asad Asnawi
Former dynamite fisher Amiruddin has ceased using destructive fishing practices and become a marine conservationist in his native Sumbawa. In 2010, Amiruddin was arrested and almost died while using poison to kill fish off Sumbawa’s west coast. Today he has installed lattices to support coral growth in the islands where he fished with explosives and poison in his youth.
