Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights has renewed its call for the government to compensate the thousands of people affected by the East Java mudflow disaster, which has cla

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Commission on Human Rights declared on Wednesday that the 2006 mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, East Java, had been caused by a human error and anno

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Indonesia has a lot to gain from a deal at Copenhagen on the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation scheme.

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – The Sidoarjo Mudflow Management Agency said on Wednesday that it was closely monitoring a 500-meter fault line that has appeared in the middle of the Lapindo mud p

Budi Otmansyah, Pekanbaru – Seven foreign Greenpeace activists who chained themselves to a crane at port facilities of PT Indah Kiat Pulp and Paper in Riau were deported on Friday, whil

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Undeterred by their encounter with local police earlier this month, Greenpeace activists once again carried out protests in Riau on Wednesday – and were promptl

Eleanor Hall: More reports have emerged of decimated fish stocks off the coast of Indonesia near the recent oil spill in the Timor Sea.

A World Bank study that cited Indonesia as the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases was wrong, an Indonesian report sent to the United Nations on Monday said, although it d

Foreign journalists based in Indonesia have condemned the deportation of two reporters from Italy and India who had covered a recent Greenpeace demonstration.

Budi Otmansyah & Fidelis E Satriastanti – Police in Riau's Pelalawan district arrested two foreign journalists and a Belgian Greenpeace activist on Monday, saying that they had not

Around 300 residents of Kampar, Pelalawan, in Riau, went to the Greenpeace home base on Sunday, demanding it not leave the area despite its closure by local policemen.

Pariaman, West Sumatra – The magnitude 7.9 earthquake and subsequent landslides that devastated West Sumatra on Sept.

Jakarta – Greenpeace activists from Indonesia will file a report with police against PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) for illegally clearing forest in a peatland area in Cape Kampa

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – Citing visa violations, authorities will deport 11 foreign Greenpeace activists who were involved in the sealing off of heavy machinery owned by PT Riau Andal

Fidelis E Satriastanti & Budi Otmansyah – Eleven foreign nationals will be deported and 21 Indonesians have been charged by police following a Greenpeace action at a large pulp and

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Activists are warning against air pollution in Indonesian cities which they said had reached alarming levels.

Jakarta – Environmental experts say the country is not a carbon emitter, countering a report sponsored by the World Bank and Britain's development arm that ranked the country the world'

Emmy Fitri – Nine years ago, long before Al Gore warned the world about the "Inconvenient Truth" of global warming, Edy Hamdan and fellow fishermen in Krui, West Lampung, had already ac

East Timor says it will seek compensation from Australia if its waters or shores are polluted by a leaking oil rig.

Anita Rachman – As 90,000 families struggle to rebuild their lives in West Sumatra after a powerful 7.9-magnitude quake rocked the area on Sept.

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Thousands of dead fish and clumps of oil have been found drifting near Indonesia's coastline more than two months after an underwater well began leaking in the

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Several major regulations issued over the past five years have made the country's natural resources more prone to exploitation, an environmental law expert says

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang (East Java) – The illegal trade of protected animals remains widespread, despite relevant institutions carrying out regular raids against such practice, an

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – Hundreds of victims affected by the mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, have renewed calls for the government to compensate them for their land and houses threa

Tapaktuan, Aceh. The Sumatran tiger population has continued to decline as the animal is pushed to the brink of extinction.

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Fidelis E Satriastanti – Green groups on Monday called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to fulfill his stated commitment to reducing carbon emissions during his second term, which

Jakarta – Policies implemented during President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's previous tenure have severely damaged the environment, bringing the country to a state of ecological crisis, a

Fidelis E Satriastanti – As attempts to contain an oil spill from a well operated by Thai and Australian companies proved futile, a conservationist warned on Sunday that the disaster wo

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Erwida Maulia and Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Around 90,000 families are still homeless in Padang, West Sumatra, two weeks after the 7.9-magnitude quake hit the province as the UN pledges t

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – A large area of mangrove forests in Lampung, which acts as a buffer for coastal residents from tidal waves, has been depleted rapidly over the past yea

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Indonesia's tough new environment law, passed last month and aimed at any firm with an effect on the environment, may take as long as two years to implement, a

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Anita Rachman – Four districts and a municipality in West Java have submitted reports estimating the total damage caused by the Sept. 30 West Sumatra earthquake at Rp 6 trillion.

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Hundreds of people buried by landslides in Indonesia two weeks ago have been registered as dead, raising the death toll from last month's earthquake to 1,115.

Fidelis E Satriastanti – The newly installed members of the House of Representatives only start work today, but already they have "homework" in the form of a comprehensive green agenda

Jakarta – Most buildings that collapsed during the recent earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, were badly designed and constructed, a survey has concluded.

As the people of West Sumatra gather the ruins of their lives around them and slowly start again, forced to accept there are bodies that will never be recovered from last week's earthqu

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Scientists who examined last week's devastating earthquake in West Sumatra have come to an alarming conclusion: it was not "the big one" they have long been foreca

Indonesia is considering declaring four villages mass graves after they were buried by landslides in last week's earthquake.

Jonathan Pearlman with agencies, Padang – Unable to reach the bodies buried beneath them, workers have begun demolishing buildings damaged in Indonesia's giant earthquake.

Eric Talmadge, Kampung Laweh (Indonesia) – Children swarmed into the streets clutching begging boxes and yelling "please help me" Wednesday as an aid convoy reached villages deep in Ind

Aubrey Belford, Bunga Pasang (West Sumatra) – Indonesian housewife Edib Mulyati stands in the ruins of her quake-hit house and smiles bitterly at the government's promises of aid, sayin

Text messages have been circulating since last week linking the timing of Wednesday and Thursday's earthquakes in Sumatra with verses about immorality and punishment in the Koran, promp

Padang – As West Sumatra begins rebuilding after last week's earthquake, questions are being raised about whether corruption and shoddy building standards contributed to the extent of t

Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – Some superstitious Indonesians are blaming a supposedly unlucky president and not shifting tectonic plates for the latest earthquake.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Padang (Indonesia) – The earthquake devastated west Sumatran city of Padang is slowly trying to drag itself to normalcy today with school students back in those cla

Eric Talmadge and Irwan Firdaus, Padang – Rescue workers called off the search Monday for life under the rubble left by a massive earthquake, focusing instead on bringing aid to survivo