Jakarta – The Jakarta Police said Monday it would coordinate with the Navy's Military Police (POMAL) to prosecute a Navy officer allegedly behind the killing of environmental activist Jopi Teguh Le

Environmental activist Jopi Peranginangin has died after being stabbed during an altercation outside a nightclub in Kemang, South Jakarta, early on Saturday.

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – An Australian law firm is preparing a class action on behalf of Indonesian fishermen and seaweed farmers who say their livelihoods were devastated by one of Australia's w

Indra Budiari, Bogor – Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI) says the Bogor regency administration lacks a commitment to protecting a conservation zone in Puncak, Bogor regency, West Java, alleging authorit

Jakarta – A green group has warned that law enforcement in the environmental sector is effective at cracking down on ordinary citizens but leaves big business untouched.

Indepedent since 2002, East Timor is one of the world's newest nations.

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Indonesia's fisheries minister, Susi Pudjiastuti, has fast become one of the most popular ministers in President Joko Widodo's cabinet, thanks in large part to her trigger-

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Now that the National Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Agency (REDD+) has been abolished by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, calls are mount

Jakarta – As natural disasters continue to hit parts of Indonesia, more regional leaders are asking for an increase in disaster relief funding from the central government.

Jakarta – Muhammad Nasir, the research and technology minister, says construction is ongoing for an experimental nuclear power reactor on the outskirts of Jakarta, to pave the way for Indonesia's f

Sidoarjo – Dozens of houses of the victims of the Lapindo mudflow in Gempolsari subdistrict, Tanggulangin district, Sidoarjo, East Java, have been inundated with mud following damage to

Michael Bachelard, Banda Aceh – On a stone in the middle of a grassy field, a woman sits alone, remembering the boy she'll never see again.

Hotli Simanjuntak and Hasyim Widhiarto, Banda Aceh – Exactly 10 years ago, modern history's biggest natural disaster struck the Indian Ocean and nowhere was the devastation and loss of

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Dozens of buildings – including schools and local government offices – constructed in Indonesia after the Indian Ocean tsunami with Australian aid money were riddle

Fakhrurradzie Gade and Niniek Karmini, Banda Aceh, Indonesia – Cars. Fishing boats. Houses. Entire villages.

Hans Nicholas Jong and Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – After an allegation that the government's decision to take over the Bakrie family's liabilities in the Lapindo mudflow disaster in Sid

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government has finally agreed to go another extra mile to bail out the powerful Bakrie family to settle the remaining compensation for victims of the Lapindo

Sebastian Strangio – Dec. 26, 2004 began much like any other Sunday.

Jakarta – A recent landslide in Central Java that has left at least 39 people dead has highlighted Indonesia's vulnerability to fatal landslides, as well as the government's inability t

Jakarta – Indonesia's disaster-management agency said on Saturday at least 11 people were confirmed dead with more than 100 still missing following a landslide in Banjarnegara, Central

Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla affirmed on Wednesday that although the government planned to buy the assets of PT Minarak Lapindo Jaya, the company should still pay compensation t

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – After spending more than Rp 6 trillion (US$48.7 million) of taxpayers' money to help the Bakrie family resolve the Lapindo mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, East

Sidoarjo – After eight years of uncertainty and not receiving full compensation for their properties engulfed in the Lapindo mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, hundreds of displaced victim

Ina Parlina and Indra Harsaputra, Jakarta/Sidoarjo – The government is pushing PT Lapindo Brantas to complete payment of a remaining Rp 781 billion (US$63.4 million) in compensation to

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Activists have lambasted the Environmental Performance Rating Program (PROPER), in which the Environment and Forestry Ministry awards firms for their compl

Jakarta – Nearly half of all the bodies of water in South Kalimantan is at risk of being contaminated by waste from coal mines, claims a report released by Greenpeace on Wednesday.

Jakarta – Anticorruption activists from the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) have called on the Environment and Forestry Ministry to limit the conversion of forests into other purposes

Bobby Anderson – Marwan Jafar, President Joko Widodo's new minister for village development, disadvantaged regions and transmigration, announced on Oct.

Johnny Langenheim – Snarled traffic, city hotels and rubbish-strewn beaches are not images most associate with Bali.

Paulina Quintao – The Secretariat of State for the Environment (SEMA) has conducted a workshop with stakeholders to review Timor-Leste's five-year biodiversity plan.

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – With ambitious growth targets being set for several years into the future, Indonesia must implement a comprehensive strategy to maintain environmental sustai

Harry Pearl, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has failed to adequately address the population decline of Indonesia's wild animals and curb the country's growing ecological f

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – As president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is set to announce his Cabinet this month, speculations are rife over who will fill the top jobs at the forestry an

Ari Rikin, Bogor – Despite the huge benefit of biological resources for human civilization, awareness and knowledge by the Indonesian public of the country's vast bioresources remains l

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A coalition of green groups has urged president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to incorporate sustainable development into his maritime development programs, i

Jakarta – Hundreds of villages across Indonesia are facing a clean water crisis as dry season sets in in earnest following a drawn-out rainy season.

Suherdjoko and Slamet Susanto, Semarang, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta – Residents of Gunungkidul regency in Yogyakarta and in 12 regencies in Central Java have begun to feel the pinch of a p

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – Despite the threat of overflowing hot mud that may engulf their house at any time, Suwandi, 75, and his wife, Saniakah, 70, insist on staying in Gempolsari

Makassar – Hundreds of residents from Harapan and Pasi-Pasi villages in East Luwu regency, South Sulawesi, have staged a protest against nickel mining company PT Vale Indonesia for alle

Luh De Suriyani, Denpasar – Customary villages, members and leaders of communities have been called on to stage major protests against the planned massive project to reclaim Benoa Bay t

Fikri Zaki Muhammadi, Denpasar – Environmentalists lamented that neither of the presidential candidates contesting the July 9 election had mentioned plans to manage the issue of climate

Empty fishing nets, weeping sores, mysterious deaths and mass dolphin strandings.

Gabrielle Dunlevy – Indonesia's government has added its weight to a new push to make Canberra and the Thai company behind the Montara oil disaster survey for damage beyond Australian w

Presidential hopeful Joko Widodo on Thursday pledged full compensation and steady jobs for victims of a mud volcano in Sidoarjo, East Java, whose eruption in 2006 has been blamed on a c

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Sidoarjo, East Java – Tjarwadi, 68, a resident of Siring village, Sidoarjo regency, East Java, had not previously known 65-year-old Sadawi Priadi of nearby Glagah

Michael Bachelard, Kuala Simpang, Aceh – On the map, the Leuser Ecosystem is shaped like a gigantic pair of lungs. The image is apt.

Jakarta – The Eyes on the Forest (EoF) environmental group published their latest investigative report on Tuesday into deforestation in Sumatra, especially Riau, following environmental

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has ordered the government to force PT Lapindo Berantas to complete the payment of compensation to victims of the notorious mudflow incid

Gohong, The clearing of forests inhabited by indigenous people in Indonesia's Papua* Region by agribusinesses is fuelling conflict in the southern Merauke Regency, say campaigners.

Oliver Milman – A trio of Australian companies have been accused of making decisions that could hamper attempts to protect Indonesian rainforests where threatened species, including ele