Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia still has a long way to go to achieve its carbon emission reduction target as efforts to combat climate change are being hampered at the regional level, a Wo

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – From Acehnese fighting to protect the Leuser National Park to Papuans resisting the expansion of palm oil companies, thousands of people across the archipelago are wag

Thirteen species of Indonesian birds, including the country's symbolic Javan hawk-eagle, are at serious risk of extinction mainly due to the pet trade, a wildlife watchdog warned Wednesday.

Lita Aruperes, Manado – Reclamation projects that had been started in Manado in the 1990s had not only had made hundreds of fishermen lose their jobs, but also destroyed mangroves along the city's

Ni Komang Erviani – The Sabha Pandita (high priests) of the Indonesian Hindu Religious Council (PHDI) have called on the government to review its decision over the controversial Benoa Bay reclamati

Lita Aruperes and Ni Komang Erviani – Reclamation off Manado beach, North Sulawesi, has forced fishermen in Daseng Panglima, Sario district, to switch occupations as they find it increasingly diffi

Hundreds of residents of Pakraman village, Denpasar staged a rally on Thursday to oppose a planned reclamation project in Benoa Bay, Bali which they believe would destroy the environment and their

Elly Burhaini Faizal – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has revealed that almost all reclamation projects in Indonesia, including projects in Jakarta, Bali and Makassar, have violat

Marguerite Afra Sapiie – People grouped under Gerakan Rakyat Menggugat (GeRAM) are raising awareness for the need to protect the Leuser Ecosystem Zone (KEL) in Aceh through an online petition.

Kanupriya Kapoor & Gayatri Suroyo, Padang/Jakarta – All 22 of the early-warning buoys Indonesia deployed after the 2004 tsunami disaster were inoperable when a massive undersea earthquake struc

Ni Komang Erviani, Andi Hajramurni and Arya Dipa, Denpasar/Makassar/Bandung – The government's new policy requiring modern retailers to charge customers for plastic bags will begin slowly as local

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Most of the cities planning to join a campaign to tax plastic bags have withdrawn from the program, saying that they were not ready to implement it.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Customers will have to pay for plastic bags when they shop at shopping malls, department stores, supermarkets and other retail outlets throughout 23 of the country's m

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – The floods affecting a number of regions in Riau, Aceh and Bali have not only engulfed residential areas but also thousands of hectares of farmland, currently causing wid

Michael Neilson, Jakarta – Activists are suing the Indonesian government in a bid to stop development they say will devastate the last remaining area on earth where Sumatran tigers, rhinoceroses, o

Jon Afrizal, Syamsul Huda M.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A group of Aceh citizens will lodge a civil lawsuit against the Home Ministry at the Central Jakarta District Court on Thursday in a bid to preserve the Leuser Ecosyst

Denpasar – Dressed in Balinese attire, more than 1,000 people flocked onto the streets of bustling Kuta on Sunday morning, voicing their opposition to a reclamation project in Benoa Bay, Bali.

Oil and gas exploration company Lapindo Brantas has suspended operations in East Java's Sidoarjo regency, where people are still traumatized by the mudflow disaster blamed on the company's previous

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Residents of Tanggulangin, Sidoarjo, East Java, have protested without avail against planned gas drilling by Lapindo Brantas Inc., a company affiliated with the family

Manado – The hot mudflow from a drilling site of Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE) Lahendong, a subsidiary of state-owned gas and oil company Pertamina, in Tondangow subdistrict, Tomohon, North Sul

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo, East Java – Oil and gas company PT Lapindo Brantas, controlled by the family of businessman and Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie, plans to redrill a gas well near t

Lita Aruperes, Archipelago – Extensive sand and gravel quarrying (classified as "Galian C") is threatening the environment and public health in Tomohon city in North Sulawesi, residents and an envi

Lita Aruperes, Manado – Residents in Leilem village, Minahasa regency, North Sulawesi, have expressed serious concern as a hot mudflow at the PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE) Lahendong explorat

Jakarta – A group of concerned scientists, researchers, environmentalists and agrarian activists launched a petition on Tuesday calling on the government to take aggressive action to st

Yogyakarta – An expert has warned that rising sea levels caused by climate change need to be considered in development planning as 2,000 islands and 42 million homes are on track to be

Denpasar – Thousands of people, mostly youngsters, gathered on Sunday at Padang Galak Beach in Denpasar to take part in an art event held to express the local residents' rejection of th

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb and Rizal Harahap, Padang/Pekanbaru – Heavy rain over a number of regions has triggered landslides and flooding, cutting access and disrupting economic activities.

Paris – The Indonesian government has introduced a monitoring system named the Indonesian National Accounting Carbon System (INCAS) in a bid to reduce national carbon emissions.

Jakarta – Indonesia is home to the most wildlife crime involving illegally traded endangered species in Southeast Asia, in both the domestic and export markets, according to the Nationa

Jakarta – Dozens of environmental activists grouped under the Alliance of Earth Our Home held a street rally on Saturday

Agus Maryono, Banyumas, Central Java – Almost everywhere in Central Java is categorized as prone to natural disasters, especially floods, windstorms and landslides, an official has warn

Tangerang – A bitter smile crept across the face of mussel farmer Muhammad Ali, 41, as he described his struggle to make ends meet amid an ongoing coastal reclamation project in Dadap,

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government is mulling whether to implement strict liability in its legal action against individuals or companies whose forest concessions are burning, in a bid to

James Plested – Across Indonesia, vast swathes of forest and peat land are burning, destroying the habitats of countless endangered species, poisoning the air and threatening the health of tens of

Apriadi Gunawan and Hotli Simanjuntak, Medan/Banda Aceh – Potential conflicts between animals and human beings have continued to emerge in some regions on Sumatra, mostly because of severe disturba

Jakarta – The National Police added on Tuesday five more foreign firms to their list of companies suspected of causing forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan that have produced haze over Singapore

Robert Isidorus, Jayapura, Papua – West Papua has declared itself as the world's "first conservation province" in a signed declaration on Monday, in an bid to formally dedicate its efforts to conse

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Rationalizing the emission reduction capabilities of each region in the country should be a government priority after the Paris climate summit as scientists predict th

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is poised to sue the oil company responsible for the worst oil spill in the history of Australia's offshore petroleum fields.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Environmental group Greenpeace Indonesia has criticized the government for its "weak" commitment to renewable energy development.

Jakarta – Environmental activists have demanded the government revise a draft document on the country's emissions targets before submitting it for a UN climate conference in Paris.

Rizal Harahap, Apriadi Gunawan and Jon Afrizal, Pekanbaru/Medan/Jambi – After spending weeks battling with the impact of the thick haze that has blanketed their home city, many Pekanbaru residents

Hans Nicholas Jong – Activists have urged the government to revise its Intended National Determined Contribution (INDC), saying the emissions target is flawed and indicative of the government's lac

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Amid the country's economic slowdown, the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has urged the government to reduce its coal dependency in its plan to build powe

A joint statement by the Commission for the Disappearances and Victims of Violence (KontraS) and the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)

Jakarta – An environmentalist group in Indonesia expressed its disappoint in President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo for officiating the groundbreaking of a 2,000 megawatt coal-generated power plant in Bata

Emily Mitchell – It was six years last Friday (21/8/15) since the Montara oil spill began spewing into the Timor Sea.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Increasing the number of coal-fired power plants (PLTU) from 42 to 159 will increase the risk of death from air pollutants in Indonesia from 6,500 a year in 2015 to 15

Jakarta – Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti said on Sunday that around 70 percent of the coral reefs in Indonesia had been damaged and needed to be restored.