The world has questioned Indonesia’s committment to stop climate crisis at the height of COP26 climate talks in Glasgow after its Environment Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar, who was also present at COP26, tweets that development in Southeast Asia’s largest economy under President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo must not stop “in the name of carbon emissions or in the name of deforestation”.

It is not clear year yet whether it is her personal opinions or it represents the state’s stance but Jokowi’s administration, which is known for his economic-driven policies, has been tight-lipped.

With this statement, the home of a third of the world’s rainforest, Indonesia, seems to challenge one of COP26 major deals to end deforestation by 2030.

Indonesia is one of the world’s major deforesters. The country has lost 10% of its virgin forest — the size of Portugal — since 2001.

In relation to that topic, we have published a new research that reveals how a toll road project in the country’s eastern most island of Papua, may destroy 4.5 million hectares of forest by 2036.

Another environmental piece explores how Indonesia can reach zero emission by 2050 in its energy sector.

We also publish a new research on female leadership in Indonesia’s media organisations. It suggests a new metaphor to best describe the career journey of female journalists, replacing two existing, commonly-used metaphors - glass ceilling and labyrinth - in various studies.

On language, Rasman on Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia has argued how mixing languages can benefit people in their academic achievement, challenging popular opinions which believes that the ability to speak in different languages represent a person’s inability to think in a systematic way.