Kupang – The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) chapter of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) is asking the government to shut down all manganese mining in West Timor in a bid to he

Elisabeth Oktofani – When 80-year-old Madi has no money to buy food for him and his wife, he casts a net in the polluted waters of the East Flood Canal hoping to haul in fish.

The rate at which the Lapindo mudflow is spewing in East Java might have slowed, but there is still no telling exactly when it will cease, the Sidoarjo Mudflow Mitigation Agency said on

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – States should play a bigger role in the realization of people's rights to clean water by not only providing larger fund allocations for water but also co

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh - Officials have lambasted an Australian carbon broker for selling the marketing rights for carbon credits created through a forest conservation project to a Ca

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Jakarta – The government says it will cover compensation payments for victims of the Sidoarjo mudflows in East Java until the responsible company, PT Minarak Lapindo Jaya, is able to pa

Elisabeth Oktofani – Some of the country's best restaurants serve up green mussels steamed, baked or in curries.

Indonesia is preparing to greenlight the construction of several highways through a park that has one of the world's few viable populations of wild tigers, conservationists warned on Th

The inhabitants of Sanggase kampung, district of Okaba, district of Merauke, have submitted a demand for compensation of sixty-five billion rupiahs from PT Medco for their operations in

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Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Thousands of people are at risk of starvation and disease after heavy flooding in Papua's Paniai district, an official said over the weekend.

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A senior politician from the ruling Democratic Party says an outbreak of caterpillars that has reached plague proportions in parts of Indonesia is a warning from God.

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As the fire at Pertamina's refinery in Cilacap, Central Java, continued to burn out of control on Tuesday, thousands of nearby residents were evacuated.

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Heavy flooding in eight subdistricts of West Aceh has forced the evacuation of thousands of people, an official said.

Nurdin Hasan & Antara, Pidie, Aceh – At least 11 people were killed and more than 100 homes destroyed in a flash flood that struck Pidie district in Aceh on Thursday night.

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Jakarta – Twenty percent of District III of Kerinci Seblat National Park in Bengkulu and South Sumatra has been destroyed by farming and the local administration's construction projects

A mud volcano that has displaced more than 13,000 Indonesian families will erupt for at least a quarter of century, emitting belches of flammable gas through a deepening lake of sludge,

Jakarta – The massive extraction of mangrove forest by local communities is threatening the sustainability of mangroves in South Kalimantan, an official says.

Sleman, Yogyakarta – Although three months have passed since the recent devastating eruptions of Indonesia's Mount Merapi, most of the temporary shelters the government promised to buil

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The weak supervision of coal mining firms operating in Kalimantan has caused widespread environmental damage, say officials.

Jakarta – Local communities will suffer greater difficulty in achieving environmental justice due to the absence of a simpler dispute mechanism in the midst of a steady increase of envi

Jambi – The population of the critically endangered Sumatran tiger – scientific name Panthera tigris Sumatrae – in Jambi province has continued to dwindle to an alarmingly low number.

Javanese villagers who survived the violent eruptions of Mount Merapi volcano last year are tapping into the macabre market for disaster tourism to help rebuild their shattered lives.

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Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Prolonged bad weather in Jakarta and its surrounding areas has increased the threat of poverty for fishermen in Banten.

Jakarta – Greenomics Indonesia, a leading NGO on forestry issues, lambasted Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan for issuing a new decree on Dec.

Elisabeth Oktofani – Environmental activists on Tuesday called on the Indonesian government to declare the inability of fishing families nationwide to earn a living because of months of

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Tangerang – The Tangerang municipal administration warned all industrial firms not to directly dispose untreated waste into rivers.

Jakarta – According to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), Indonesia suffered Rp 7.1 trillion (approximately US$781 million) in financial losses caused by the Mount Merapi e

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – The critically-endangered Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) population in Way Kambas National Park (TNWK) has declined past recent estimates as

Jakarta – Conservation association Burung Indonesia said Tuesday that 122 Indonesian bird species included on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list could go

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Langsa, Aceh – Six years after the Indian Ocean tsunami swept more than 200,000 people to their death, Titik Yuniarti still clings to hope at least one of her children is alive.

Bengkulu – A leading Indonesian environmental group has protested a plan to build a road through Kerinci Seblat National Park, the biggest reserve on Sumatra Island.

Shari Nijman – As the United Nation's International Year of Biodiversity draws to a close, Indonesia, home to some of the earth's richest ecosystems, still struggles to protect some of

Slamet Susanto and Arya Dipa, Yogyakarta/Bandung – Thousands of survivors of the Mount Merapi eruptions staged a rally in Yogyakarta on Monday, demanding that the government fulfill its

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – A recent poll claims that public acceptance of government plans to build a nuclear power plant has increased.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) urged the Forestry Ministry to close 17 loopholes in its regulatory set-up to anticipate further abuse of forestry licenses and illegal loggi

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Analysts and government officials on Thursday accused the environmental group Greenpeace of fabricating its data on environmental

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Freed from the threat of volcanic eruptions, Merapi's refugees must now face the ordeal of rebuilding their lives.

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – Despite warnings by experts that unbridled urban development would harm the environment, a Jakarta official said the economic benefits were too great to re

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – The Association of Indonesian Economists' (ISEI) Yogyakarta branch has called on Bank Indonesia on Thursday to consider writing off the bank loans of debtors i