Kupang, West Timor – A prominent US expert in oil spill recovery said in Kupang on Saturday that Indonesia needs to craft a program to deal with the lingering and largely over-looked ef

Jakarta – It was a long, long journey from Sidoarjo to Jakarta, but for Hari Suwandi and Hartowiyono, the journey was the least they could do after years of unsuccessful attempts to obt

Anita Rachman – On June 14, Hari Suwandi embarked on a 25-day journey on foot from his home in Sidoarjo, East Java, to raise awareness of the plight of people from his village, Kedung

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The East Java administration's refusal to grant a gas drilling permit to a notorious company linked to Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie has been blasted

Murizal Hamzah – More than a week after the author of the controversial book "Lumpur Lapindo File: Konspirasi SBY-Bakrie" ("The Lapindo Mud File: SBY-Bakrie Conspiracy"), Ali Azhar Akba

Alina Musta'idah – The Constitutional Court began reviewing on Friday a provision in the 2012 state budget that allows the government to use taxpayer money to compensate victims of the

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – Only a tenth of Balikpapan Bay's original coral reefs remain today, with environmentalists blaming shipping activity and the destruction of mangro

For the past month, residents of Sidoarjo district in East Java have blocked the main road running through Porong subdistrict in a bid to bring attention to their cause.

Rangga D. Fadillah, Jakarta – Lapindo Brantas will begin drilling a new gas well in Tanggulangin, near the site of the mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, East Java, the government says.

Michael Bachelard – When pentecostal pastor Danny Nalliah thundered that the 2009 Victorian bushfires were caused by God's wrath at that state's decision to decriminalise abortion, he w

Michael Bachelard, Banda Aceh – Some of the tsunami alert sirens that are supposed to protect the city of Banda Aceh failed as an earthquake shook the city.

Jakarta – Activists rallied before the Attorney General's Office (AGO) on Friday, urging an investigation into what they called "light charges" for alleged orangutan killers.

Nurdin Hasan & Antara – Days after Aceh dodged a bullet when two massive earthquakes failed to trigger a potentially devastating tsunami, it emerged that the country's tsunami early

An aftershock measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale struck Sumatera mere hours after a powerful quake sent residents running for higher ground in Banda Aceh after a tsunami warning was iss

Jakarta – The Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) threw out a lawsuit on Tuesday filed by a coalition of environmental NGOs that was challenging the decision of the Environment Mi

Kupang – Environment activists and members of the Ngada-Flores community in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, staged a rally on Tuesday against iron ore exploration activities conducted by PT

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The unbridled destruction of Sumatra's forests over the past 20 years is the main reason for the 44 percent decline in the Sumatran elephant population during

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – The Fisheries Justice Coalition has accused the government of trying to legalize the dumping of toxic waste into the sea.

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A leading environmental group has called on the government to be transparent about policy changes after the Tripa peat forest in Aceh was scrapped from a protected area.

A survey of animal markets in Java and Bali has found that the illegal trade in protected birds is not only continuing unchecked, but is picking up speed.

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – The East Kalimantan administration has revealed that 230 degraded coal mining concessions in the province have never been restored by the concessi

Charundi Panagoda, Washington – The survival of Sumatra's tigers, elephants, orangutans, rhinos, as well as indigenous communities, is threatened by the "world's fastest deforestation r

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – Orangutans in Kutai National Park in East Kalimantan face a bleak future unless urgent measures are taken to stop wildlife poachi

Carla Isati Octama – The fate of East Kalimantan's Dayak tribes is inextricably linked to the success or failure of Indonesia's efforts to reduce deforestation, an international environ

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The mud keeps flowing and people's lives are being ruined. Tom Allard reports from Sidoarjo, East Java, with photographer Quentin Jones.

At least 900 of 1,300 small enterprises in Malang regency, East Java, dump their untreated waste into the rivers, an official says.

Pekanbaru – A satellite has detected at least 45 hot spots in Sumatra, with almost half of them found in Riau, according to a government scientist.

Jakarta – Bureaucratic dysfunction – and sometimes greed – human errors and a lack of capabilities have hampered disaster risk management operation throughout 2011, National Disaster Mi

Banda Aceh, Indonesia – Aliya Humaira scribbled a message on yellow paper in the shape of a petal: "I love Papa, I love Mama, I love Sister Icha, I love Brother Kiki."

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has warned international green groups not to meddle in the country's domestic affairs, saying that their campaigns against fore

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Vento Saudale, Bogor – Influential homeowners in Bogor are reportedly preventing the city's administration from acting against 250 dwellings in the Puncak area that were built in breach

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – The Kalimantan orangutan population is increasingly under threat, with the discovery of the remains of several of the great apes that had been killed in forests

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The firms in charge of building and maintaining the Mahakam II Bridge that collapsed and killed at least 19 people on Saturday continued to deny all liability

Wahyoe Boediwardhana and Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Experts say that the East Java Legislative Council's recently approved draft bylaw on water management does not reflect the public

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – Indonesia's growing energy needs make the building of nuclear power plants unavoidable in the long term, a senior government official said on Monday.

Indonesian police have questioned a researcher who uncovered the alleged torture and killing of orangutans in a palm oil plantation area in East Kalimantan.

Jakarta – Members of the Center for Orangutan Protection protested in front the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Tuesday demanding that the President support the legal protection of or

A new survey says villagers on the Indonesian side of Borneo killed at least 750 endangered orangutans over a yearlong period, some to protect their crops and others for the apes' meat.

Jakarta – A recent global pledge to ban exports of toxic waste has not stemmed the flow of outdated electronic products to Indonesia, activists say.

Indonesia has been accused of attacking Greenpeace after the environmental group said on Thursday that a second campaigner had been deported by immigration officials in less than a week

Greenpeace has lashed out at allegations made by a legislator that one of its top British activists managed to skirt an entry ban into Indonesia by using a false passport.

Jakarta – The immigration office claimed on Monday that it did not issue a warrant to deport Greenpeace campaigner Andrew Ross Tait, prompting speculation that the warrant shown to him

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Jakarta – A member of the presidential Judicial Corruption Task Force is questioning government efforts to ban two Greenpeace activists from entering Indonesia, saying it might tarnish

Jakarta – Environmental group Greenpeace accuses the Indonesian authorities of trying to suppress freedom of speech with its recent barring of Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauv

Rizky Amelia – John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, was denied entry to Indonesia because he would "threaten the stability of the country," the immigration office has said.

Bruce Gale – On July 15 this year, when members of the thuggish Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) staged a rally outside the headquarters of environmental group Greenpeace in Kemang, South