Sacred Hills and Vanishing Rituals: The Struggle to Preserve Bangka Islands Last Natural Bastions Against Industrial Deforestation

The landscape of Bangka Island, an expanse of approximately 1.1 million hectares in the Indonesian archipelago, has been fundamentally altered by centuries of intensive resource extraction and the aggressive expansion…

Guardians of the Limestone Hills: How the Boti People’s Ancestral Wisdom Defies Climate Change in East Nusa Tenggara

In the rugged, sun-scorched landscapes of the Kie District in South Central Timor, the Boti indigenous community stands as a living testament to human resilience against the intensifying whims of…

Fate of Jember’s Natural Shields The Vanishing Gumuk Hills of East Java

The landscape of Jember Regency in East Java is defined by thousands of small, idiosyncratic hills known locally as gumuk. For the people of this region, these formations are far…