Budi Otmansyah, Pekanbaru (Riau) – Arson could be behind the razing on Sunday morning of a camp set up by Greenpeace in the middle of the Kampar peninsula to help protect against defore

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Nurdin Hasan & Nurfika Osman, Banda Aceh – A day after a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake shook Sumatra Island, Aceh is starting to count the costs.

Nurdin Hassan and AFP, Banda Aceh – A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Sumatra island early Wednesday, injuring at least four people, one of them critically, in Simeulue district,

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Conservationists in Lampung are up in arms over the resumption of gold mining in the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, saying the activity threatens

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Democratic Party of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has suggested reopening the high-profile mudflow case in East Java, which implicates a mining co

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Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo, East Java – The President has instructed Lapindo Brantas Inc.

Jakarta – Eleven representatives of mudflow victims in Sidoarjo, East Java, left for Jakarta on Tuesday to protest at the delayed payment for their lost property as promised by the gove

Fidelis E Satriastanti – With tigers living in ever-closer proximity to humans due to the continued destruction of their forest habitat, the number of reported attacks involving the big

Ismira Lutfia – An environmental group on Tuesday condemned lawmakers' decision this week to approve plans to build nuclear power plants in Indonesia.

Jakarta – A group of Indonesian environmental NGOs published a letter, calling on investors and buyers to reject Asia Pulp and Paper's (APP) "misinformation" on its environmental polici

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Underground mining officially became legal in the country's protected forests on Feb. 1.

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Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – Illegal conversion of conservation areas into oil palm plantations remains rampant in the Tesso Nilo National Park, Riau, allegedly involving high military fi

Putri Prameshwari & Antara – The search for victims of the landslide at the Dewata tea plantation near Bandung will be halted at noon today, even though a dozen people are still mis

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The ministry of energy and mineral resources has proposed that the government postpone the implementation of the 2009 law on environment for two year on fears it

Camelia Pasandaran – Residents of the Dewata tea plantation in Tenjolaya village, Bandung, had just started the day on Tuesday when they heard an unusual noise.

David Weber – The oil leak from a wellhead platform in the Timor Sea late last year appears to have spread into Indonesian waters.

Adianto P. Simamora – Legislators have urged the government to take action against 11 mining companies that have been operating in areas of protected forest without permits.

The death toll has risen to seven and more than 60 people are still missing after a landslide struck a remote part of West Java's Bandung district on Tuesday.

Fidelis E Satriastanti, Nusa Dua – As Indonesia hosts an international meeting on toxic and hazardous chemicals here, a nongovernmental organization said on Sunday that an increase in t

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Paris – Drilling firm PT Lapindo Brantas, owned by Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie, was to blame for unleashing a mud volcano in East Java that claimed 14 lives and displaced tens

Amir Tejo & Fidelis E Satriastanti – In response to new report by British geologist Richard Davies that said the Sidoarjo mudflow was caused by human error, East Java Police on Frid

Rumbadi Dalle, Jakarta – A group of fishermen in Riau Islands, Sumatra, have launched a legal complaint against and demand for compensation to an Asian consortium-owned mining equipment

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Indonesia will file a demand to Australia asking for compensation after the latter's oil rig leaked in Indonesian territory in Timor Sea, says the Indonesian

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The idea to develop Indonesia's first nuclear energy plant has been around since the 1970, but the project has gone in and out of fashion as political factions have come and gone.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Students in the West Aceh capital of Meulaboh have ended a five-day hunger strike to demand housing for survivors of the 2004 tsunami after several of the str

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Almost 100 days into his tenure as environment minister and Gusti Muhammad Hatta found himself confronted by visibly irritated lawmakers who wanted to know why

The government is expected to handle more cases involving poaching, trading and smuggling of endangered and protected animal species in Indonesia this year, but on the other hand the fa

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights has deepened its investigation to find out whether gross human rights violations were committed against the thousands of people living

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Commission on Human Rights has extended to April the working period of an ad hoc team tasked with investigating allegations of gross human rights

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Copenhagen climate change conference might be over, but differences continue to arise between environmentalists and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyo

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will announce the results of its final investigation on possible gross violations of human rights against thousands of mud

Dewi Kurniawati, Sekutur Jaya, Jambi – Despite its serenity, complete with smiling, laid-back people, a serious problem is weighing heavily upon this remote village in central Sumatra.

The government says that it will seek compensation from Australia for environmental damage in the Timor Sea caused by a leak at the Montara well.

Fidelis E Satriastanti – While the recent Copenhagen climate talks have been criticized for failing to produce a concrete agreement on emissions cuts, local activists are now turning th

Anita Rachman, Nurfika Osman & Arientha Primanita – Sitting astride the "Ring of Fire," a geologically unstable section of the earth's crust below the Pacific Ocean, Indonesia recei

Surabaya – Mudflow victims in Sidoarjo, East Java, have criticized the developer building their houses in Renojoyo village, which they claimed were of low quality and unfit to live in,

Hundreds of tsunami refugees in Aceh province held a rally in front of West Aceh's Regional Representative Council Building on Monday to demand homes that they said the government had p

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Today, the people of Aceh commemorate the most tragic day in our history with prayers, memories and visits to the mass graves that hold the unidentified remai

Lampuk (Indonesia) – Ikra Alfila has rediscovered the joy of play, but the little 10-year-old still has nightmares about giant waves five years after the tsunami that killed everyone in

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesia could formally embrace nuclear power as early as next year as senior Government members push to revive a proposal to build up to four reactors just 30 ki

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) promised to follow up reports on alleged corruption in the issuance of a letter to halt an investigation against P

Adrienne Francis - There are renewed concerns that one of Australia's worst exotic pests may have hitchhiked to East Timor.

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Following a PT Pertamina pipeline accident last week that left one dead in South Sumatra, Indonesia's leading green group on Monday urged the local government t

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