A decade ago, Mika Ganobal campaigned to prevent Indonesia’s eastern Aru Islands from becoming a sugar plantation. Mika has since risen from a village chief to the head of one of the Aru Islands’ 10 ...

The arrival of the J7Explorer ship, owned by coal magnate Haji Isam, has sparked renewed concerns in the Aru Islands about plans to convert forests into a 60,000-hectare (150,000-acre) cattle ranch.

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More than 10 years have passed since a young official in Indonesia’s eastern Aru Islands saved his archipelago from becoming a monoculture plantation. Today, Mika Ganobal is drawing on his campaigning ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The indigenous peoples of the Aru Islands, Maluku, Indonesia, call for biodiversity protection on their ancestral land. The peaceful protest coincides with the global biodiversity ...

As the EU and Indonesia work on a free trade agreement, one tribe is seeking European help to secure its rights. Many Indigenous peoples are at risk of losing their land as economic development ...