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The Sarawak Energy logo at an electric vehicle charging station in Kuching on the island of Borneo. Malaysia's verdant, river-crossed state of Sarawak is charging ahead with plans to become a regional "green battery," but its renewable energy dreams could come at serious environmental cost, experts warn.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Sep 16, 2025
Malaysia's largest island state aims to be region's 'green battery'
Sarawak's many rivers and streams offer potentially abundant hydroelectricity, but experts warn of a serious environmental cost.
Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur have overlapping claims to the continental shelf and exclusive economic zone off the eastern coast of Borneo — known as Ambalat in Indonesia and Sulawesi Sea in Malaysia.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 13, 2025
Indonesia says it will continue talks with Malaysia over disputed sea
The dispute involves overlapping claims to the continental shelf and exclusive economic zone off the eastern coast of Borneo.
The Malaysian state of Sarawak is blessed with the rivers and heavy rainfall needed to create hydropower that can generate clean electricity needed for emissions-free hydrogen.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Apr 20, 2024
Clean hydrogen’s best bet may be a rainforest state in Borneo
The state is hoping an abundance of hydropower can help it defy challenges that are clouding the fuel’s prospects elsewhere.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Sep 15, 2019
Schools closed for a week due to 'dangerous' air pollution in Indonesia's Borneo Island
Schools in two cities in the Indonesian part of Borneo Island will be closed for a week after smoke from forest fires caused air quality to hit "dangerous" levels, a local government official said Sunday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2019
Fix Asia's megacities, don't move them
Shifting bureaucrats to Borneo won't solve the problems faced by millions in Jakarta.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 26, 2019
Joko Widodo selects East Kalimantan to be Indonesia's new capital to replace sinking Jakarta
Indonesia will build a new capital city on the island of Borneo, home to some of the world's biggest coal reserves and orangutan habitats, as President Joko Widodo seeks to ease pressure on congested and sinking Jakarta.
JAPAN
May 11, 2017
Borneo village chief urges Tokyo to stop using cheap timber in centerpiece Olympic stadium
A village leader from Borneo urged Japan on Wednesday to stop building its Olympic stadium with cheap timber that he says is obliterating traditional life for his indigenous people.

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