Indonesia’s new peatland agency faces questions over what it will do differently

Mongabay
Oct 1, 2026, 12:19 am114 ptsTrending
JAKARTA — In 2016, following the most devastating land and forest fires in its recorded history the previous year, the Indonesian government set up an agency to restore peatlands, among the worst-hit biomes during the disaster. A decade later, following the most devastating land and forest fires since the…

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