Hans Nicholas Jong and Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – After an allegation that the government's decision to take over the Bakrie family's liabilities in the Lapindo mudflow disaster in Sid

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government has finally agreed to go another extra mile to bail out the powerful Bakrie family to settle the remaining compensation for victims of the Lapindo

Sebastian Strangio – Dec. 26, 2004 began much like any other Sunday.

Jakarta – A recent landslide in Central Java that has left at least 39 people dead has highlighted Indonesia's vulnerability to fatal landslides, as well as the government's inability t

Jakarta – Indonesia's disaster-management agency said on Saturday at least 11 people were confirmed dead with more than 100 still missing following a landslide in Banjarnegara, Central

Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla affirmed on Wednesday that although the government planned to buy the assets of PT Minarak Lapindo Jaya, the company should still pay compensation t

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – After spending more than Rp 6 trillion (US$48.7 million) of taxpayers' money to help the Bakrie family resolve the Lapindo mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, East

Sidoarjo – After eight years of uncertainty and not receiving full compensation for their properties engulfed in the Lapindo mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, hundreds of displaced victim

Ina Parlina and Indra Harsaputra, Jakarta/Sidoarjo – The government is pushing PT Lapindo Brantas to complete payment of a remaining Rp 781 billion (US$63.4 million) in compensation to

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Activists have lambasted the Environmental Performance Rating Program (PROPER), in which the Environment and Forestry Ministry awards firms for their compl

Jakarta – Nearly half of all the bodies of water in South Kalimantan is at risk of being contaminated by waste from coal mines, claims a report released by Greenpeace on Wednesday.

Jakarta – Anticorruption activists from the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) have called on the Environment and Forestry Ministry to limit the conversion of forests into other purposes

Bobby Anderson – Marwan Jafar, President Joko Widodo's new minister for village development, disadvantaged regions and transmigration, announced on Oct.

Johnny Langenheim – Snarled traffic, city hotels and rubbish-strewn beaches are not images most associate with Bali.

Paulina Quintao – The Secretariat of State for the Environment (SEMA) has conducted a workshop with stakeholders to review Timor-Leste's five-year biodiversity plan.

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – With ambitious growth targets being set for several years into the future, Indonesia must implement a comprehensive strategy to maintain environmental sustai

Harry Pearl, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has failed to adequately address the population decline of Indonesia's wild animals and curb the country's growing ecological f

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – As president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is set to announce his Cabinet this month, speculations are rife over who will fill the top jobs at the forestry an

Ari Rikin, Bogor – Despite the huge benefit of biological resources for human civilization, awareness and knowledge by the Indonesian public of the country's vast bioresources remains l

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A coalition of green groups has urged president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to incorporate sustainable development into his maritime development programs, i

Jakarta – Hundreds of villages across Indonesia are facing a clean water crisis as dry season sets in in earnest following a drawn-out rainy season.

Suherdjoko and Slamet Susanto, Semarang, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta – Residents of Gunungkidul regency in Yogyakarta and in 12 regencies in Central Java have begun to feel the pinch of a p

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – Despite the threat of overflowing hot mud that may engulf their house at any time, Suwandi, 75, and his wife, Saniakah, 70, insist on staying in Gempolsari

Makassar – Hundreds of residents from Harapan and Pasi-Pasi villages in East Luwu regency, South Sulawesi, have staged a protest against nickel mining company PT Vale Indonesia for alle

Luh De Suriyani, Denpasar – Customary villages, members and leaders of communities have been called on to stage major protests against the planned massive project to reclaim Benoa Bay t

Fikri Zaki Muhammadi, Denpasar – Environmentalists lamented that neither of the presidential candidates contesting the July 9 election had mentioned plans to manage the issue of climate

Empty fishing nets, weeping sores, mysterious deaths and mass dolphin strandings.

Gabrielle Dunlevy – Indonesia's government has added its weight to a new push to make Canberra and the Thai company behind the Montara oil disaster survey for damage beyond Australian w

Presidential hopeful Joko Widodo on Thursday pledged full compensation and steady jobs for victims of a mud volcano in Sidoarjo, East Java, whose eruption in 2006 has been blamed on a c

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Sidoarjo, East Java – Tjarwadi, 68, a resident of Siring village, Sidoarjo regency, East Java, had not previously known 65-year-old Sadawi Priadi of nearby Glagah

Michael Bachelard, Kuala Simpang, Aceh – On the map, the Leuser Ecosystem is shaped like a gigantic pair of lungs. The image is apt.

Jakarta – The Eyes on the Forest (EoF) environmental group published their latest investigative report on Tuesday into deforestation in Sumatra, especially Riau, following environmental

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has ordered the government to force PT Lapindo Berantas to complete the payment of compensation to victims of the notorious mudflow incid

Gohong, The clearing of forests inhabited by indigenous people in Indonesia's Papua* Region by agribusinesses is fuelling conflict in the southern Merauke Regency, say campaigners.

Oliver Milman – A trio of Australian companies have been accused of making decisions that could hamper attempts to protect Indonesian rainforests where threatened species, including ele

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – A mining watchdog group in East Kalimantan says that a number of companies are using conservation areas in the region for mining activities.

Jakarta – Indonesia's top Islamic clerical body has issued a religious fatwa against the illegal hunting and trade in endangered animals in the country, which the World Wildlife Fund ha

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Balikpapan – The world's largest population of proboscis monkey, locally known as bekantan, and its natural habitat in Balikpapan Bay is in danger due to the expansion of oil palm plant

Tony Ng, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia and local communities in Batang, Central Java, have alleged alarmingly high figures for greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants from a coal-fired

Wahyoe Boediwardhana and Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya/Jakarta – Last Thursday's eruption of Mount Kelud in Kediri, East Java, has inflicted tremendous financial losses in the aviation, ma

Jakarta – Life is slowly returning to normal in east Java after Thursday's volcanic eruption killed at least four people, closed airports and caused flight cancellations.

Jakarta – Six have died so far in the wake of Mount Kelud's forceful Thursday eruption, which drove tens of thousands of Central and East Java residents from their homes and scattered a

Paulina Quintao – Minister Isabel Amaral Guterres warned the MSS will halt natural disaster relieve assistance to victims because of cases where construction materials given by the gove

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo said the floods, land subsidence and landslides seen in many places in the province had lead to Rp 1 trillion (US$82 million)

Ainur Rohmah and Suherdjoko, Semarang – Floods and landslides in most parts of Central Java have caused dozens of casualties, damaged hundreds of kilometers of roads and destroyed thous

Karo, North Sumatra – Fourteen people, including four schoolchildren, were killed on Saturday after they were engulfed in scorching ash clouds spat out by Indonesia's Mount Sinabung in

Indah Setiawati and Multa Fidrus, Jakarta – The floods returned on Wednesday after incessant rain hit the capital overnight, forcing hundreds of residents to wade back to evacuation she

SP/Fana FS Putra – Booming construction in Jakarta and a precipitous decline in green space have exacerbated flooding despite the existence of years-old legislation requiring at least 3

Zubaidah Nazeer, Karo, North Sumatra – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made a high-profile visit to Karo regency in North Sumatra, where he met residents displaced by the Mount Sinab