Indonesia has a long history of managing floods with canals and other infrastructure. But there are fears the massive project will worsen existing ecological damage.
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Poaching may have killed more than a third of the world’s Javan rhino in five years.
Sea-level rises and storm surges don’t discriminate, but societal structures do.
The Conversation’s senior religion and ethics editor traveled the world to learn more about Indigenous populations. See one piece of what she discovered.
Why is Indonesia planning to build a new capital called Nusantara? Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The eruption in East Java that claimed 22 lives on Saturday was likely triggered by weather conditions rather than by internal unrest inside Mount Semeru, which would have been easier to monitor.
Five strategies must be applied to save the Javan rhino from the brink of extinction.
Variation in the local structure of religious authority, rather than political or ideational differences, explains militant groups’ success or failure in Java.
People’s acceptance of poverty is the biggest challenge to eradicating poverty in Yogyakarta and Banten, both on Indonesia’s most populated Java island.
Google saves $9 billion, programmers and users get to keep a popular language and its apps – and a key Oracle product stays alive.
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