Eric Talmadge and Irwan Firdaus, Jumanak (Indonesia) – With no outside help in sight, villagers used their bare hands Sunday to dig out rotting corpses, four days after landslides trigg

Tom Allard – Nestled in densely forested hills, with spectacular volcanoes in the distance and pitched on a coast a short boat ride from spectacular tropical islands and surf breaks, Pa

Tom Allard, Padang – Hopes for hundreds of people trapped under collapsed buildings in Padang faded yesterday, as diplomats frantically tried to account for as many as 60 Australians mi

Syofiardi Bachyul and Jon Afrizal, Padang/Jambi – The death toll from Wednesday's powerful earthquake in West Sumatra is believed to be in the thousands, as rescue teams struggle to dig

Irwan Firdaus, Padang – Rescue workers used excavators Thursday to pull out victims, some screaming in pain, from the heavy rubble of buildings felled by a powerful earthquake that kill

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Residents of East Java's capital are preparing for another water crisis, as October – the transition month from the dry to rainy season – is considered the worst m

Putri Prameshwari & Eras Poke – Concerns over a damaged well leaking crude oil into the Timor Sea near East Nusa Tenggara have prompted the government to dispatch a team to monitor

Fidelis E Satriastanti – As the climate talks in Bangkok draw near, environmentalists are worried that the country would be unable to gain much from the negotiations because of its lack

Camelia Pasandaran – Hundreds of Acehnese displaced by the December 2004 tsunami celebrated Idul Fitri in a squalid camp in Aceh Besar district, prompting calls on Wednesday for the pro

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Tiny East Timor on Wednesday signed a UN treaty to protect the Earth's fragile ozone layer, making it the first environmental pact to achieve backing from all 196 member states, the Un

Nivell Rayda, Cianjur (West Java) – Confusion and sadness were just some of the emotions felt by earthquake victims in one small village on Thursday, as the search and rescue efforts to

Nivell Rayda, Garut (West Java) – With the election season over, victims of the Indonesian earthquake in West Java are finding new ways to utilize obsolete campaign banners, using them

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – A group of Lapindo mudflow victims broke their fast on Wednesday with the Bakrie family in Kahuripan Nirwana Village, the housing complex built for them by the Bak

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – As with any law, implementation is the key.

Sunanda Creagh – Indonesia's parliament passed a new environment bill on Tuesday giving the Environment Ministry the power to revoke polluters' business licenses, which environmentalist

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A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit off Indonesia late on Monday, seismologists say, but no tsunami alert was issued and there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

Anita Rachman & Ismira Lutfia – Health officials are battling disease that is now spreading among refugees from last week's massive earthquake in West Java, with many complaining of

The operators of major resource extraction projects in the Indonesian province of Papua could face tough criminal penalties if they are found to have caused excess levels of environment

Adek Berry, Cipanas (Indonesia) – Rescuers in Indonesia are continuing to search for dozens of people buried by a major earthquake that killed at least 63 people, as anger mounts at the

Jakarta – Rescuers in Indonesia continued to search Saturday as hopes faded for dozens of people missing after a major 7.0-magnitude earthquake, an official said.

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – The illegal trade in Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatraensis) and their body parts in Jambi province has gone on unabated and has caused the tiger population

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Rescue workers were frantically sifting through rubble with their hands to find victims of Wednesday's earthquake in Indonesia, with many young children missing an

Irwin Fedriansyah, Cikangkareng – Rescuers dug through rocks and debris with their bare hands Thursday in search of dozens of villagers believed buried in a landslide triggered by a str

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Irresponsibility on the part of PT Lapindo Brantas may again cause more misery for the people of Sidoarjo.

Arientha Primanita – Jakarta residents who haven't made the adjustment already had better learn to live with the annual floods because the problem will continue to exist for the foresee

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Nurfika Osman – Industry experts on Thursday blamed corrupt city officials for the sharp decline in the amount of green space in the capital.

Dessy Sagita – City planning experts called on the Jakarta administration on Monday to tighten supervision of land use, building permits and development to prevent worsening floods and

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Fidelis E. Satriastanti – A British geologist has criticized the East Java Police for stopping its investigation into the mudflow disaster in the district of Sidoarjo.

Jakarta – Human rights and environmental activists deem the government as powerless when it comes to dealing with big corporations after the police stopped its investigation against Lap

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Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The National Commission on Human Rights will go ahead with its lawsuit against the President and PT Lapindo Brantas Inc, despite police having suspended the

Candra Malik, Solo – There's an environmental drawback, after all, to the rising trend toward ecological tourism, where nature lovers flock to pristine natural sites.

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Military officers will be deployed to monitor the closure of an illegal mining site on Mt. Merapi, Central Java, a legislator said Tuesday.

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Police should revoke their recent order for cessation of investigations into who was responsible for the Lapindo mudflow disaster, the East Java chapter of the For

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – More than $30 million worth of infrastructure relocated because of the three-year-old Lapindo mudflow in East Java may be once again under threat, this time from a

Amir Teja, Surabaya – East Java Police on Friday dropped an investigation into 13 people named as suspects in relation to the Lapindo mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo.

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Thousands of hectares (ha) of mangrove forest in northern coastal areas have been seriously damaged due to fish farms, residences, industries, tourism and illegal

Kafil Yamin – Drought has dried up the groundwater in several places throughout West Java's Bandung district, forcing residents to cut back on bathing and other usage.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – After the economic boom from rebuilding projects in the wake of the 2004 earthquake and tsunami, growth in the non-oil and gas sectors in Aceh has dropped as

Bogor – Thousands of the world's frog species are on the brink of extinction and efforts to conserve them are urgently needed, the president of the Association of Southeast Asian Zoos s

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Indonesia, Jakarta – The El Nino climate phenomenon could hit Indonesia this year, producing a dry spell that could threaten its rice fields.

A Papua human rights activist has dismissed claims by Indonesia's Defence Minister that foreign governments or NGOs could be behind a series of deadly ambushes near the Freeport mine in

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Residents of a neighborhood in the Porong subdistrict of Sidoarjo, East Java, are reportedly refusing to leave their homes despite being warned that a new mudflow

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Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo, East Java – Residents living outside the areas officially affected by the Lapindo mudflow disaster have demanded compensation following the provincial admini

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo, East Java – Hundreds of fish and shrimp farmers in Porong and Jabon districts, Sidoarjo regency, East Java, have demanded the Sidoarjo Mudflow Handling Agenc