Indonesia’s environment ministry is seeking $284 million in environmental damages from six companies it has linked to deadly floods and landslides triggered by Cyclone Senyar in November.

The areas affected include Batang Toru, an ecologically fragile ecosystem home to the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape.

By Hans Nicholas Jong

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/indonesia-sues-6-companies-over-alleged-links-to-deadly-floods-landslides/
#news #conservation #environment #Indonesia #animals #flooding #climate

Indonesia’s environment ministry is seeking $284 million in environmental damages from six companies it has linked to deadly floods and landslides triggered by Cyclone Senyar in November.

The areas affected include Batang Toru, an ecologically fragile ecosystem home to the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape.

By Hans Nicholas Jong

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/indonesia-sues-6-companies-over-alleged-links-to-deadly-floods-landslides/
#news #conservation #environment #Indonesia #animals #flooding #climate

#PortfolioDay
There is no sound rationale behind the idea floated by party leaders to return regional head elections to the Regional Legislative Councils (DPRD). The proposal only benefits the Golkar Party, which controls many regional legislatures.
#indonesia #democracy

#PortfolioDay
There is no sound rationale behind the idea floated by party leaders to return regional head elections to the Regional Legislative Councils (DPRD). The proposal only benefits the Golkar Party, which controls many regional legislatures.
#indonesia #democracy

Indonesia's Prabowo Subianto reiterated his commitment to building the country's new capital city as he made his first overnight stay there as president, the government said, amid questions about the project's future. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/13/asia-pacific/politics/indonesia-prabowo-capital-city-visit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #indonesia #prabowosubianto #southeastasia

PH, when?

Malaysia blocks access to Grok, joining a growing list of countries like Indonesia taking action after the genAI chatbot sparked a global backlash by allowing users to create and publish sexualized images.

#TootSEA #genAI #Malaysia #Tech #Asian #Indonesia #Twitter #SocialMedia #CyberSecurity #DataPrivacy

https://www.rappler.com/technology/malaysia-restricts-access-grok-ai-sexualized-images/

PH, when?

Malaysia blocks access to Grok, joining a growing list of countries like Indonesia taking action after the genAI chatbot sparked a global backlash by allowing users to create and publish sexualized images.

#TootSEA #genAI #Malaysia #Tech #Asian #Indonesia #Twitter #SocialMedia #CyberSecurity #DataPrivacy

https://www.rappler.com/technology/malaysia-restricts-access-grok-ai-sexualized-images/

This trip, got to try #Manado food a few times and, it's officially up there with #Sunda & #Padang as my favorite regional #Indonesia cuisines.

Need to go visit and try it in North #Sulawesi and see if its as #spicy as claimed.

sorry for the *stack link, but many writers i like from developing countries are on it, and this is an impt post:

every time someone says 'hey it's so cheap to have a nice villa in bali' here's the exploitative math behind it

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the money quote

"Villa owner: Australian guy named Brett who visited Bali once in 2015 and decided he deserved to own a piece of it.

Property manager: UAE company with an office in Seminyak and a token Indonesian partner who doesn’t do anything.

Booking platform: American corporation headquartered in San Francisco.

Cleaning staff: Indonesian woman named Wayan who’s been scrubbing toilets for five years and still can’t afford to take her kid to the doctor without selling her phone.

But sure. “Locally staffed.”

https://wulanadlerunfiltered.substack.com/p/balis-40000-villas-and-the-8day-cleaners

#Indonesia #Travel #Bali

sorry for the *stack link, but many writers i like from developing countries are on it, and this is an impt post:

every time someone says 'hey it's so cheap to have a nice villa in bali' here's the exploitative math behind it

---

the money quote

"Villa owner: Australian guy named Brett who visited Bali once in 2015 and decided he deserved to own a piece of it.

Property manager: UAE company with an office in Seminyak and a token Indonesian partner who doesn’t do anything.

Booking platform: American corporation headquartered in San Francisco.

Cleaning staff: Indonesian woman named Wayan who’s been scrubbing toilets for five years and still can’t afford to take her kid to the doctor without selling her phone.

But sure. “Locally staffed.”

https://wulanadlerunfiltered.substack.com/p/balis-40000-villas-and-the-8day-cleaners

#Indonesia #Travel #Bali

The death toll from flash floods in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi have risen to 16, with 3 people still unaccounted for. https://www.thestatesignal.com/death-toll-from-flash-floods-in-indonesias-north-sulawesi-at-16/

#thestatesignal #news #floods #weather #environment #climate #government #internationalnews #localnews #indonesia #flashfloods #sulawesi #breakingnews

After Cyclone Senyar killed more than 1,100 people across Sumatra, Indonesia’s government is now linking disaster impacts to development and corporate activity, launching audits of 100+ companies and reviews of zoning plans.

Civil society welcomes the shift, but warns real reform depends on revising permissive zoning that enables large-scale forest conversion.

by Hans Nicholas Jong
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/indonesia-launches-sweeping-environmental-audits-after-sumatra-flood-disaster/

#news #deforestation #Indonesia #cyclonesenyar

Wonder why this #Indonesia #fire, which I only just read about, didn't get nearly as much attention as the one that happened in #Switzerland a week later.

https://en.antaranews.com/news/397993/manado-retirement-home-fire-kills-16-victims-identification-ongoing

After Cyclone Senyar killed more than 1,100 people across Sumatra, Indonesia’s government is now linking disaster impacts to development and corporate activity, launching audits of 100+ companies and reviews of zoning plans.

Civil society welcomes the shift, but warns real reform depends on revising permissive zoning that enables large-scale forest conversion.

by Hans Nicholas Jong
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/indonesia-launches-sweeping-environmental-audits-after-sumatra-flood-disaster/

#news #deforestation #Indonesia #cyclonesenyar

The death toll from flash floods in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi have risen to 16, with 3 people still unaccounted for. https://www.thestatesignal.com/death-toll-from-flash-floods-in-indonesias-north-sulawesi-at-16/

#thestatesignal #news #floods #weather #environment #climate #government #internationalnews #localnews #indonesia #flashfloods #sulawesi #breakingnews