Marchio Gorbiano and Sara Hussein, Jakarta and Bangkok – Keen to end its reliance on rice imports, Indonesia wants to plant vast tracts of the crop, along with sugar cane for biofuel, i

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's efforts to ensure its commodity exports are free of deforestation are ramping up as the European Union Deforestation Regulation, or EUDR, nears

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has raised serious concerns over the European Union Deforestation Regulation, or EUDR, saying it imposes a heavy administrative b

Abdul Manan, Jakarta – The Indonesian Environment and Forestry Ministry has announced that it will no longer issue permits for timber extraction in mangrove ecosystems.

Abdallah Naem, Malinau, Indonesia – Indonesia is pressing ahead with construction of a new network of dams in Borneo to power a major "green" industrial estate that will relocate Indige

Chris Lang – On 17 January 2010, Indonesia's then-president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono launched a 2-million-hectare programme called the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE).

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Nearly half of Indonesia's peatlands are vulnerable to flooding due to degradation caused by unchecked exploitation, with 6 million hectares (15 million ac

Victoria Milko, Jakarta – Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenou

Irsyan Hasyim, Jakarta – The Forestry Ministry of Indonesia reported that Indonesia's forest area in 2024 reached 95.5 million hectares, accounting for 51.1 percent of the country's tot

Maia Ingoe – Greenpeace says Fonterra's palm kernel supply chain is tainted by connections to deforestation in Southeast Asia, as new evidence highlights New Zealand's major exporters t

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Palm oil companies in Indonesia continue to operate on protected peatlands and clear forests, despite having their forestry permits revoked and being certi

Jakarta – The Forestry Ministry's plan to hand out concessions on conservation areas confirms the false orientation of environmental policies.

Jakarta – Twenty-two Indonesian civil society organizations have sent a letter to European Union Commissioners to express their concerns over the worsening condition of Papua's rainfore

Ahmad Arif, Jakarta – Civil society organisations in Indonesia are asking the European Commission to consider deforestation and threats to the rights of indigenous peoples in Papua in a

Tempo.co, Jakarta – Twenty-two Indonesian civil society organizations have sent a letter to European Union Commissioners to express their concerns over the worsening condition of Papua'

Hans Nicholas Jong, JAKARTA – Indonesia's deforestation is once again rising after several years of decline, with 2024 marking the highest rate since 2021.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is targeting protected forest areas as part of its plan to convert 20 million hectares (50 million acres) of forest into "food an

Jakarta – In his 100 days on the job, President Prabowo Subianto has shown two contradictory approaches to environmental policy.

Teguh Suprayitno, Tebo, Indonesia – Dewita's voice cracked through tears as she read her personal statement before a court on Dec.

Ricki Putra Harahap, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has revoked forest management licenses from 18 companies that collectively controlled 526,144 hectares of land, Forestry Ministe

Bangkok – Deforestation in Indonesia rose in 2024 for a third year running, a local environmental NGO said on Friday (Jan 31) based on satellite image analysis and fieldwork.

Denny Armandhanu, Izzah Aqilah Norman, Jakarta – Papua province's Youtefa Bay, known for its azure waters and lush mangrove forests, has seen infrastructure development that has helped

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Illegal deforestation has reportedly surged to record levels in a wildlife reserve at the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra Island that's known as the "o

Jakarta – The government has set up a new task force to scale up efforts to improve forest management and curb illegal oil palm plantations and illegal mines within forest areas.

Liz Kimbrough, Central Sulawesi – Over the course of just eight years, the forests surrounding Indonesia's Lake Poso, an ecological and evolutionary "gem" on the island of Sulawesi, hav

Indonesia's plan to convert millions of hectares of forests for food and energy use is "environmentally illogical and destructive," and risks irreversible environmental and biodiversity

President Prabowo Subianto might not have thought his remarks would spark a controversy when he recently suggested that Indonesia expand oil palm plantations without worrying about defo

Angelina Tiara Puspitalova, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto proposed expanding oil palm plantations to increase palm oil exports.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – An Indonesian government plan to clear forests spanning an area twice the size of South Korea for food and biofuel crops has sparked fears of massive green

Toronata Tambun – President Prabowo Subianto marked the end of 2024 with a controversial statement. On Dec.

Experts and activists criticized President Prabowo Subianto's recent remarks, which defended Indonesia's palm oil industry and support for its expansion.

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia criticized the government's plan to convert 20 million hectares of forest into land for food, energy, and water.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Indonesian company responsible for the largest amount of deforestation, PT Mayawana Persada, has largely ceased clearing peatlands in the western part

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – In a controversial speech, Indonesia's new president argued oil palm plantations are like forests, calling for their expansion by stating, 'oil palms are t

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – A call by the Indonesian President to expand oil palm plantations has drawn backlash from environmental and farmers' groups, which warn that his comments may s

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto claimed on Monday that palm oil is a national asset and the government must increase and expand palm oil plantation

Irsyan Hasyim, Jakarta – Environmental campaign organization Satya Bumi criticized President Prabowo Subianto's statement that the expansion of palm oil plantations would have no impact

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's plan to clear rainforests half the size of Switzerland for sugarcane plantations isn't just an agricultural gamble, experts warn – it's a poten

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – At the U.N.

Adi Renaldi Thomson, Jakarta – Environmentalists are warning that Indonesia's ambitious plans to achieve net-zero emissions by 2060 rely too heavily on biofuels and risk a new wave of d

Annelise Giseburt – Biomass energy subsidies in South Korea and Japan are threatening Southeast Asia's tropical forests, warns a new report by environmental NGOs.

Spoorthy Raman – When the Indonesian government established Tesso Nilo National Park in 2004 on a former logging concession, little could it have known that the legacy of logging and de

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Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni has announced plans to reforest 12 million hectares of land in Indonesia that was damaged by massive fires in the 1990s and 2

Irsyan Hasyim (Kontributor), Jakarta – The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and The Tree Map provided satellite image evidence of the widespread deforestation driven by palm oil plantati

Carmen Molina Acosta – Former employees of a string of secretive companies accused of clearing swathes of Borneo rainforest claim the group is controlled by Royal Golden Eagle, one of t

Hans Nicholas Jong, Philip Jacobson, Laban Nyarit, Indonesia – Ipu Angit's close relationship with the forest here in the interior of Borneo is evident as he identifies the plants and t

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesian prosecutors have launched an investigation into the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, as there are indications of corruption related to the

Jakarta – Indonesia has seen a marked decrease in the number of forest and land fires this year compared to 2023, according to an official from the country's environment and forestry mi

Petir Garda Bhwana, Jakarta – The extent of palm oil plantations encroaching and even taking over forests has drastically increased since 2019.