Ketika peneliti dan penelaah bekerja keras mengidentifikasi kesalahan, penerbit komersial justru meraup keuntungan dari volume publikasi dan prestise—membiarkan karya ilmiah bermasalah terus beredar, menyesatkan kebijakan, dan memengaruhi pengambilan keputusan lama setelah kekeliruannya diketahui. Ilustrator: Abiyasa Abiguna

Saat kesalahan karya ilmiah dibiarkan: Penerbit tetap untung, publik yang rugi

Sistem penerbitan akademik seringkali membiarkan kesalahan ilmiah tetap ada karena lebih mengutamakan keuntungan dan prestise daripada koreksi yang cepat.
Broken incentives, broken science. While researchers and reviewers labour to catch errors, commercial publishers profit from volume and prestige — leaving flawed papers to persist, mislead policy, and shape decisions long after problems are known. Illustrator: Abiyasa Abiguna

When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes

Academic publishing system often allows scientific errors to persist because it prioritises profit and prestige over timely correction.
Pemandangan udara jalan raya baru yang membelah hutan dataran rendah di Provinsi Papua. Ulet Ifansasti/Greenpeace

Riset: Sekitar 4,5 juta hektare hutan bakal hilang, terimbas proyek Trans Papua

Banyak pihak mengkhawatirkan proyek Trans Papua dibangun demi kepentingan komersial, bukan masyarakat setempat. Diprediksi akan mempercepat deforestasi, seperti yang terjadi di Sumatra dan Kalimantan.
Aerial view of the new highway cutting through lowland forest in Papua Province. Ulet Ifansasti/Greenpeace

Road to uncertainty: research reveals how Trans Papua may strip 4.5 million hectares of forest by 2036

Many are concerned that the highway is being built to benefit powerful commercial interests and not Indigenous people and will accelerate forest loss as seen in Sumatra and Kalimantan.
Orang utan Sumatra jantan di Taman Nasional Gunung Leuser, Sumatra. Don Mammoser/Shutterstock

Orang utan telah beradaptasi dengan manusia selama 70 ribu tahun

Orang utan di Asia Tenggara dan Cina mengalami penurunan drastis sekitar 20.000 tahun yang lalu, mengakibatkan penyebaran mereka yang terbatas.
No simple matter: logging and conservation are not polar opposites, and controlled harvesting can fund the protection of forests. AAP/Greenpeace/Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert

Can forest conservation and logging be reconciled?

Is there a role for logging in ensuring the future of the world’s tropical forests and their rich diversity of plants and animals? For many this idea is absurd, because timber production achieving conservation…

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