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Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The Environment Ministry may miss a deadline for implementing the 2009 Environmental Law on schedule, activists agreed.

Jakarta – Unusually heavy rainfall brought on by the La Nina weather phenomenon have hammered Indonesia in recent months, leading to a pronounced drop in resource extraction and agricul

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Billions of dollars Indonesia stands to earn every year in climate change deals could be at risk if it fails to stamp out corruption in its forestry sector, lo

Eras Poke, Kupang – A nongovernmental organization in East Nusa Tenggara has lodged a claim for a scientific evaluation of the long-term health damage that could result from last year's

Binsar Bakkara, Tanah Karo, Indonesia – An Indonesian volcano shot a towering cloud of black ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles (25 kilometers) away in its most po

Sydney – A Thai-owned firm Friday rejected Indonesia's 2.4 billion US dollar compensation claim over a major oil spill off Australia's north which campaigners say hit the livelihoods of

Arlina Arshad, Jakarta – A volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted for the first time in 400 years Sunday, spewing a vast cloud of smoke and ash into the air and sending tho

Jakarta – A survey jointly conducted by the National Nuclear Agency (Batan) and the University of Indonesia's School of Social and Political Sciences found that 57.6 percent of responde

Liwa (Lampung) – Unchecked hunting is feared to wipe out the deer population in Liwa regency within the next 10 years, residents and government officials said Monday.

Fidelis E Satriastanti, Jakarta – The Rote Ndao district administration in East Nusa Tenggara will seek Rp 7 trillion ($780 million) in compensation for last year's Montara oil spill in

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Indonesia has been experiencing its most extreme weather conditions in recorded history, meteorologists warned on Wednesday as torrential rains continued to pou

Indonesia – A dramatic spike in ocean temperatures off Indonesia's Aceh province has killed large areas of coral and scientists fear the event could be much larger than first thought an

Indonesia – As downpours continue to cast a cloud over the dry season, resource producers have slashed output targets and the government has been forced to look abroad to meet local dem

Jakarta – Industrial waste and land conversion has destroyed almost 70 percent of mangrove forests along Java's and Bali's northern coasts, an environmental activist says.

London – The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak today (August 5, 2010) name two of the kingpins in Indonesia profiteering from the hugely lucrative international trade

Camelia Pasandaran& Fidelis E Satriastanti, Jakarta – Government officials on Thursday said more compensation was needed to pay for the Timor Sea oil spill, because the coastal resi

Jakarta – Environmental degradation will cause 117 bird species in Indonesia to vanish, a non-governmental organization predicts.

Jakarta – Indonesia will seek compensation from a company operating a Timor Sea oil rig that last year leaked into Australian and Indonesian waters and caught ablaze, President Susilo B

Pekanbaru – Twenty-five Greenpeace activists blockaded a vessel loading thousands cubic meters of timber at a port operated by PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) at Teluk Binjai Vill

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Nivell Rayda – A report published by an Australian university this month warns that massacres such as those alleged to have occurred in East Timor are likely to occur in Papua.

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Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – Fifteen Greenpeace members were detained for questioning after police dispersed their campaign in Cirebon, West Java, on the grounds that the event had been held

The National Nuclear Power Agency has conceded defeat in its controversial attempts to construct a nuclear power plant on the Muria Peninsula in Central Java by 2016, saying opposition

Eras Poke, Kupang – Residents from fishing communities along the eastern seaboard of East Nusa Tenggara have called on the central government to do more to mitigate the impact of an oil

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Regional Representatives Council claims the government was too slow in helping victims of a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that rocked the Papua regencies

Kupang – Thousands of fishermen in Kupang's Oesapa area are preparing to migrate to Bangka Belitung in Sumatra to find a new livelihood, a fishermen's spokesman said.

More than 2,500 homes were "badly damaged" and 17 deaths in Wednesday's 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Papua, Andi Arief, the presidential adviser for social welfare, said on Monday.

Sali Pelu, Manokwari (Indonesia) – Three people were killed and hundreds of homes damaged Wednesday when a series of strong earthquakes hit eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warni

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday acknowledged his country lacked credibility as it seeks billions of dollars in foreign aid to battle climate change.

Ismira Lutfia – While more cities and towns were honored with the central government's annual Adipura clean-city awards this year in recognition of their improved waste-management effor

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Green groups blasted the government on Friday for failing to seriously consider and take action on the lives ruined as a result of Lusi, the gigantic mud volcano which continues to spew

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang, East Java – Deforestation on the slopes of Mt.

Selma Milovanovic – One-year-old Mayuri wriggles out of her father's arms and flops to the ship's deck.

Fidelis E Satriastanti – A probe by a panel of experts has found that gold miner PT Newmont Minahasa Raya did not do harm to the environment over years of dumping mine tailings into Buy

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Apriadi Gunawan and Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) declared on Wednesday that it would reject all agreements made during the Governors'

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Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – East Sumba residents have asked the local government revoke PT Fathi Resources' gold mining permit, claiming the company's mining exploitation is threatening t

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Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Almost six years after the devastating 2004 tsunami, which killed more than 130,000 people in Aceh province, most victims have recovered from physical and

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Pasuruan – The quality of groundwater flowing to Surabaya and Gresik in East Java is likely to drop and will be contaminated with heavy metals from the mudflow in

Ivansyah, Jakarta – Residents around a coal power plant in Cirebon, West Java attacked and damaged facilities of the plant in protest over sediments formed at the delta of Warudur River

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Oyos Saroso H.N., Lampung – Activists have warned that the uncontrolled conversion of mangrove forests into fish farms in a number of coastal regions across Lampung could make the plant

Amir Tejo, Sidoarjo (East Java) – Another bubble has emerged on the Porong highway near Sidoarjo in East Java after the appearance of gas bubbles and mud in the middle of the highway la

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Hundreds of fishermen in Marunda, Cilincing, North Jakarta, are facing doubtful job prospects.

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