Indonesia in 2017: A fighting chance for peat protection, but an infrastructure beatdown for indigenous communities

Mongabay
Jan 4, 2018, 9:27 am367 pts
JAKARTA — 2017 saw Indonesia once again fulfilling its economic development potential. The Southeast Asian nation started out the year with mixed superlatives: home to the third-largest stretch of tropical forest in the world, after the Amazon and the Congo Basin, but also plagued by some of the highest rates…

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