News Indonesia Jambi: Jambi gains national recognition for nine cultural traditions
Indonesia’s Culture Ministry has designated nine traditions from Jambi Province as Intangible Cultural Heritage, highlighting the region’s ...
News Indonesia Jambi: Elephant encounters rattle farmers in Indonesia’s Jambi province
SAROLANGUN, Indonesia — On a night in early July, Solikin was awake chasing elephants past sunrise. The animals had entered the community’s oil palm fields and raised hell, mashing hundreds of young palm stems to a pulp. “What are we farmers supposed to do?” Solikin told Mongabay Indonesia a week later as he surveyed the […]
News Indonesia Jambi: In Sumatra’s Jambi, community forest managers fish to protect peatlands
MENDAHARA ULU, Indonesia — At the end of 2018, three communities in this subdistrict on the island of Sumatra were given rights to manage their local peatland by Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who showed up in person to present the certificate. Suryani still has the photo of the handover by Jokowi, as he is known, […]
News Indonesia Jambi: Jambi's Air Pollution Tonight (2/1) is the Worst in Indonesia
Jambi's air quality on Jan 2, 2026, at 6 PM WIB was Indonesia's worst with an ISPU of 99, based on KLHK data. ISPU measures ambient air quality's impact on health, aesthetics, and living things from s ...
News Indonesia Jambi: Indonesia ready for greater cooperation with Singapore across industries: President Joko Widodo
Six provinces in Indonesia, including three close to Singapore, have declared a state of emergency to battle the annual smog from land and forest fires. Jambi, Riau, South Sumatra, West Kalimantan, ...
News Indonesia Jambi: Can Indonesia avoid repeat of 2015 haze crisis?
Students walking after being released from school early due to the haze in Jambi, Indonesia, in this September 2015 file photo. As another outbreak of forest fires in Indonesia sends harmful smoke ...
News Indonesia Jambi: Conservation agency, wildlife group to release 100 songbirds in Kerinci Seblat
The Jambi Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA ... the white-rumped shama is not listed as a protected bird in Indonesia. “We have so many singing birds right now. However, the population will ...
News Indonesia Jambi: How Partnerships Ensure Supply Chain Sustainability on the Ground: Q&A with Belantara Foundation
One way to manage supply chains at a local level is to partner with foundations or other non-profit groups that have a presence in local communities. We touched base with the Belantara Foundation in Indonesia to talk about how partnerships can help companies address these challenges
News Indonesia Jambi: Chinese Citizen Arrested for Smuggling Baby Lobsters: Police
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian police investigators have questioned Kong Huping, a Chinese citizen who was recently arrested for attempting to smuggle several hundred thousand baby lobsters from Jambi ...
News Indonesia Jambi: Jakarta riots reveal Indonesia’s deep divisions
Demonstrations and rallies are common in Indonesia, but street violence like this had not ... Likewise, Prabowo took back South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, Bengkulu and Jambi from Jokowi, who won ...
News Indonesia Jambi: A forest beset by oil palms, logging, now contends with a coal-trucking road
JAMBI, Indonesia — A biodiverse patch of forest in Sumatra threatened by encroaching oil palm plantations and illegal logging could soon be carved up by a road for coal trucks. The Harapan forest spans 769 square kilometers (300 square miles) in the provinces of Jambi and South Sumatra, and represents 20 percent of the remaining […]
News Indonesia Jambi: The easy decision for Indonesian farmers between palm oil and rice production
Statistics Indonesia (BPS) data shows that rice production surpassed ... household level consequently brings more problems to food security. Many paddy fields in Jambi province, for instance, are left ...
News Indonesia Jambi: Innovation needed to end human-elephant conflict in Sumatra, says WWF Indonesia
But more elephants have died than humans, according to WWF Indonesia. At least three of the giant mammals were reportedly killed in Aceh, Jambi and Lampung last year in conflicts with humans. Seven ...
