Indonesia

This Week in Review: The New Big Oil

Tom Hundley
Pulitzer Center Staff

Profitable as it is for multi-national companies, palm oil is extracted at a heavy social and...

Multiple Authors

Hayu Rahmitasari is the editor of The Conversation Indonesia, a nonprofit media outlet.

Aidy Halimanjaya is the director and principal researcher at the Dala Institute in Indonesia.

Binar Asri Lestari is currently the Southeast Asia Education Project Coordinator at the Pulitzer Center and holds an MA in creative and cultural industries from SOAS University of London. She has...

Aqwam Hanifan is an Indonesian journalist with more than 15 years of experience as a reporter, producer, and field correspondent, including coverage of major crises and conflicts across Asia, the...

January 9, 2026

Finlan Adhitya Aldan is an Indonesia-based freelance journalist specializing in the country's environmental issues and their global context. With a background in geoscience, he frequently employs...

Aprilia Rina is Program Manager at The Conversation Indonesia. She joined The Conversation Indonesia in April 2022. With over 13 years of experience in media practice, she has an interest in in-depth...

Ayomi Amindoni is a journalist at BBC News Indonesia. Her work focuses on women, Indigenous communities, climate change, and environmental issues. Amindoni produced and hosted the award-winning...

Furqon Ulya Himawan is a freelance journalist and contributing writer at Media Indonesia Daily Newspaper since 2010. His journalistic work won an award by the Ministry of Environment in 2014. He also...