In Nederland worden steeds vaker onderwaterdrones ingezet voor aquatische monitoring van ecologie en waterkwaliteit. Het eerste grootschalige nationale onderzoek met aquatische drones werd in 2013 uitgevoerd in het kader van het programma ‘Collaboratorium Klimaat en Weer’ [1] naar de waterkwaliteit onder …

Deze maand doken Nederlandse onderwater drones op in de Indonesische nationale pers. Onder grote belangstelling las men dat een consortium van Indonesische en Nederlandse organisaties (Tauw, INDYMO, TU Delft en water & milieulab WLN Indonesia) start met een grootschalig internationaal onderzoek naar …

This management plan is written for the STEMA Bible school. The School wants to be self-sufficient regarding their vegetables and crops by increasing the yield of their community forest. The school is located on Ambon which is an island of the Moluccas archipelago in Indonesia. The community forest, …

The Dutch colonization of the East Indies, which lasted for around 350 years, set the stage for the creation of modern Indonesia, the third largest democracy in the world. The colonization period saw the introduction of colonial policies and administration. Systematic regulation, as well as bribery set …

Tropical forest in Tabalong district South Kalimantan are under threat by external factors; one of the main threats to the forests are coal mining operations. Coal mining operations are temporary land use activities because of this mine rehabilitation is an important part of the mine development process.Mine …

The Bawean warty pig (Sus blouchi) is an endemic confined to the 192 km2 Bawean island in the Javasea. Due to a lack of quantitative ecological research, population assessments have so far been based solely on interviews with local inhabitants. Hunting and habitat degradation in Bawean’s protected areas …

Duizenden kinderen worstelen dagelijks met de gevolgen van een amputatie. Bij amputaties aan de onderste extremiteit is er vooral een beperking in de mobiliteit. Voor kinderen in ontwikkelingslanden heeft dit met name tot gevolg dat zij niet (zelfstandig) naar school kunnen gaan en vaak niet, of beperkt, …

Varanus species are a popular species in the exotic pet trade. Little is known about the distribution of these species and trade could have a negative impact on the status of wild populations. Indonesia and Papua New Guinea have a large diversity of Varanus species and are both known as major wildlife …

The purpose of this dissertation is to determine how West Papua came to be a province of Indonesia and how the Indonesian government has treated its ethnically and culturally distinct indigenous population, and more specifically the Papuan self-determination movements which it gave rise to, from 1963 …