Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – More than 600 non-government organisations have warned that three second-hand power plants under construction in East Timor may endanger the health and livelih

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – The Sidoarjo hot mudflow, now mixed with oil, poses a greater threat of environmental damage because it flows through residential areas and the Porong River

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The Indonesian Government ignored repeated warnings about a catastrophic flash flood at Situ Gintung and instead built a jogging track around its dam wall from fun

Jakarta – Any potential drought in Indonesia this year would most likely occur due to environmental damage rather than a prolonged or extreme dry season, the Meteorology, Climatology an

Putri Prameshwari – At least six of the 193 dams located in the Greater Jakarta area are in similar condition to the now-collapsed Situ Gintung dam, the Indonesian Forum for the Environ

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Dozens have been confirmed dead and many more are still missing after a reservoir wall collapsed in the Indonesian capital, creating a "tsunami" that wipe

Tom Allard, Indonesia – At least 50 Indonesians are believed to have perished and hundreds of homes destroyed after a dam broke south of Jakarta, sending huge volumes of water rushing t

Jakarta – A lack of coordination between government institutions, as well as inconsistent and overlapping laws, have been preventing the government from taking the necessary measures to

On a gloomy Thursday in February last year, thousands of passengers who landed at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport found themselves stranded at the arrival terminals.

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Jakarta – The Sidoarjo Mud Mitigation Agency warned Tuesday that levees built to contain the massive mudflow pond in Sidoarjo, East Java, may collapse at any time after part of the inne

Indonesian villagers have trapped and killed their fourth endangered Sumatran tiger amid a flurry of tiger attacks blamed on illegal logging, the environmental group World Wildlife Fund

Indra Harsaputra and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Surabaya – Victims of the Lapindo mudflow disaster remain skeptical of the new pledge made by the Bakrie Family to pay disaster compensation in

Dessy Sagita – Environmental activists on Monday urged the Jakarta Administration to temporarily halt its car-free days on selected city roads, saying a re-evaluation was needed because

The international community has lauded Indonesia for its success in resolving years of conflicts in Aceh as well as its ability to quickly rebuild the province after the tsunami disaste

Multa Fidrus, Banten – Thousands of industrial firms in Banten province are believed to be causing environmental damage which has triggered unpredictable weather cycles.

Amir Tejo – Tired of waiting for PT Minarak Lapindo Jaya to pay for the damage to their property, thousands of Lapindo mudflow victims in Sidoarjo, East Java Province, staged yet anothe

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Jakarta – Increased coal use could pose severe environmental threats for the nation, activists warned Monday.

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Heavy flooding over the past two days has paralyzed parts of the northern Java north coast, popularly known as Pantura, disrupting both land and air traffic.

Jakarta – Seasonal flooding in Indonesia has inundated hundreds of houses, forced the closure of a regional airport and triggered landslides that killed at least two people, officials s

Agus Maryono and Nana Rukmana, Cilacap/Cirebon – Landslides and floods triggered by incessant monsoon rain over the last four days in Cilacap, Central Java, have laid waste to 20 mounta

Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – The Cirebon Non-governmental Coalition (KLC) has urged eligible voters not to vote for politicians who are insensitive toward environmental issues in the 2009 le

Agus Maryono and Suherdjoko, Semarang – Heavy rains over the past three days have caused flooding and landslides in several regencies in Central Java that have left at least six people

Nurni Sulaiman, Balikpapan – The Balikpapan Bay is one of the city's landmarks, a place where foreign and domestic companies, mostly in the coal and oil sectors, have been carrying out

Banda Aceh – A spate of recent deadly animal attacks in Indonesia has thrown the spotlight on growing conflicts between humans and animals triggered by the rapid dwindling of the countr

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Dozens of environmental activists staged a protest Friday in front of the Bali governor's office to oppose a plan to develop Buyan Lake in Buleleng.

Jakarta – Environmental group Greenpeace urged Indonesia's election watchdog Thursday to investigate funding for political parties linked to deforestation ahead of parliamentary polls i

ID Nugroho, Surabaya – Surabaya Legal Aid Institute (LBH) has urged the Indonesian public to pressure the government and PT Lapindo Brantas Inc.

Hotli Simanjuntak – Thousands of Aceh residents held communal prayers in places of worship across the province on Friday as they honored the victims of the devastating 2004 tsunami that

Dozens West Aceh citizens staged a rally Friday marking the fourth anniversary of the tsunami to demand the government organize the reconstruction of the devastated areas in the provinc

Jakarta – Two-and-a-half years after a volcano erupted in the East Java province of Sidoardjo, the mud shows no signs of abating.

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The rapid expansion of traditional shrimp farms in Lampung has not only damaged mangrove swamps but forced local fishermen to seek their catch in the open sea due to the scarcity of fis

Seth Mydans, Renokenongo – Her children insist, so every week or two Lilik Kamina takes them back to their abandoned village to look at the mud.

Jakarta – The city administration must make greater efforts to create green spaces in the capital, the Jakarta branch of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has said.

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Domestic waste remains one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gases in Indonesia, largely because the majority of the nation's dumps are poorly managed and still use improper dis

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – Despite a compensation agreement in Jakarta on Wednesday, thousands of mudflow victims staged a massive rally along the Porong highway on Thursday, paralyzi

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Victims of the East Java mudflow disaster have reached a deal with the Bakrie family-controlled PT Minarak Lapindo Jaya and the government agency handling thei

Rohman Taufiq, Jakarta – Around one thousand victims of the Lapindo mudflow disaster from the Tanggulangin Anggun Sejahtera housing complex, Sidoarjo, came to the Presidential Palace th

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Alvin Darlanika, Jakarta – Just when they thought life could not get much worse, victims of Indonesia's mud volcano are now being buried under the global financial crisis as they await

John Aglionby, Bali – Indonesia, the world's largest palm oil producer and emitter of greenhouse gases through deforestation, yesterday dealt a blow to hopes it would step up efforts to

At least four villages in Glaharum and West Siring subdistricts in Porong district were inundated when the giant mudflow pond overflew due to heavy rains in Sidoarjo regency on Tuesday.

Buol, Indonesia – Six people were killed and some 10,000 displaced by the powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake which struck Indonesia's Sulawesi island this week, officials said Tuesday.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Syofiardi Bachyul, Bandung, Padang – Research by the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Agency (PVMBG) in Bandung disclosed that during the past 10 years e

Nurni Sulaiman, Balikpapan – The Kalimantan regional office of the state minister for the environment has blamed the presence of a number of recalcitrant companies for natural disasters

Triwik Kurniasari, Jakarta – Environmental impact assessments (Amdal) are still not being enforced, with rivers becoming increasingly polluted while many industries do not properly trea

Jakarta – Jakarta should brace for even stronger flooding this rainy season after forest in the north of the city was cleared to make way for a road project, a group of NGOs said Wednes