{"id":463530,"date":"2026-02-07T02:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/463530\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T02:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:43:12","slug":"catastrophe-brings-a-reckoning-for-sumatras-oil-palm-plantations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/463530\/","title":{"rendered":"Catastrophe brings a reckoning for Sumatra&#8217;s oil palm plantations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260206 Indonesia Palm Trees\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleCaption_featureArticleCaption__eXLkj\" data-trackable=\"caption\" style=\"display:block\">A\u00a0170-hectare\u00a0oil palm plantation managed by a\u00a0community-owned enterprise in the West Sumatran village of Lubuk Malako: Revenue from the business has\u00a0financed improvements to local educational and health care facilities and provided a cushion against cuts in central government fund transfers. (Photo by\u00a0Dimas Ardian)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7 FeatureArticleTag_featureArticleTag__Icbk9\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/big-in-asia\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big in Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleSubhead_featureArticleSubhead__9P3Jq\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mod=\"false\">Indonesian island considers future of farms that magnified damage from floods and landslides<\/p>\n<p>ISMI DAMAYANTI<\/p>\n<p>February 7, 2026 06:00 JST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u00a0170-hectare\u00a0oil palm plantation managed by a\u00a0community-owned enterprise in the West Sumatran village of Lubuk Malako: Revenue from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,10681,96321,75,19136,28132,237669,237667,128,237668],"class_list":["post-463530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brings","tag-catastrophe","tag-environment","tag-oil","tag-palm","tag-plantations","tag-reckoning","tag-science","tag-sumatras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}