Tuhar, a 55-year-old farmer from Central Java, has embarked on an intriguing journey in the farming business for the past 23 years. In 2000, he made a bold decision to transition from cultivating tobacco to growing food crops and coffee. This change
       
     
Stories / Seeds of Change
Hari Janu Nurdiansyah, known as Janu, is a 31-year-old nurse working in a public hospital in the Cibinong area of Bogor, Indonesia. He is also a freelance photographer, videographer, and video editor. Janu's experience with smoking began when his ol
       
     
Stories / From Ashes, Reborn Strong
Written and photographed by Fieni Aprilia “Junaidi, 42, poses with his PVC cannon in front of his farm in Alue Buloh. He crafted the device using a pipe and lights it with methylated spirit to alert the village whenever a wild elephant comes near.
       
     
Stories / Homeless Giants
Step into the polio Supplementary Immunization Activity (SIA) in West Java, where an inspiring collaboration between various organisations is taking place to protect children from polio. As part of the polio outbreak response, health offices, commun
       
     
Stories / Protecting Every Child Against Polio in West Java
Nature’s bounty has long sustained life on Ambon, an island in eastern Indonesia that was fought over by 17th-century European spice traders. In the village of Asilulu, the richest bounty was found at sea, where most residents made a living from cat
       
     
Stories / When climate adaptation fails, who is responsible? Indonesia is asking.
Indonesians are still living with the consequences of the pell-mell conversion of carbon-rich peat forests on Borneo island for rice cultivation in the 1990s. It led to recurrent forest fires that spew poisonous haze into the atmosphere. Now the p
       
     
Stories / Why Indonesia’s rice paddy expansion is raising climate concerns
Emmy Hafild co-founded Indonesia’s most prominent environmental NGO in the 1990s. Today she’s an adviser to a private company building a hydropower dam along the Batang Toru river ecosystem on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, which relies on coal t
       
     
Stories / Renewable energy in a rare ape’s habitat raises ethical dilemma
In the small village of Pajam, Kaledupa, the women are a powerhouse of economic enterprise with traditional weaving.
       
     
Stories / Weaving past and future
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Stories / Bird's-eye View
Isn’t This Home? is a photo book that I published with Gueari Galeri. The project explores the search for a sense of belonging whilst living abroad for postgraduate studies (London, The UK) and is met with unexpected circumstances such as COVID-19 l
       
     
Stories / Isn't This Home?
There are around 600 Sumatran Tigers left in Indonesia. The Sumatran Tiger project has identified several causes of the declining tiger population. These include the booming population and industry expansion encroaching on the tigers’ habitat. The s
       
     
Stories / The Heroes of Sumatran Tiger
Cash for Work is part of the UNDP's rapid disaster relief programme of USD 1.4 million which supports recovery. Funding comes from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund, and UNDP. The first stage ran for 25 days, and involved 300 villagers who wer
       
     
Stories / Out of the rubble
In 1850s, a naturalist from England named Alfred Russel Wallace explored one of the big islands in Indonesia, Sulawesi. The largest island in the “Wallacea” region is home to one of the largest marine biodiversity areas, with over 700 different spec
       
     
Stories / Saving Yaki
TB in Indonesia
       
     
Stories / TB in Indonesia
UNDP conducted monitoring and evaluation of the Kerinci Seblat National Park landscape. Kerinci Seblat is an expansive national park located in Sumatra, covering four provinces: Jambi, Bengkulu, South Sumatra, and West Sumatra. It is a 1.4-hectare f
       
     
Stories / Guarding A Handful of Paradise