Charundi Panagoda, Washington – The survival of Sumatra's tigers, elephants, orangutans, rhinos, as well as indigenous communities, is threatened by the "world's fastest deforestation r

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – Orangutans in Kutai National Park in East Kalimantan face a bleak future unless urgent measures are taken to stop wildlife poachi

Carla Isati Octama – The fate of East Kalimantan's Dayak tribes is inextricably linked to the success or failure of Indonesia's efforts to reduce deforestation, an international environ

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The mud keeps flowing and people's lives are being ruined. Tom Allard reports from Sidoarjo, East Java, with photographer Quentin Jones.

At least 900 of 1,300 small enterprises in Malang regency, East Java, dump their untreated waste into the rivers, an official says.

Pekanbaru – A satellite has detected at least 45 hot spots in Sumatra, with almost half of them found in Riau, according to a government scientist.

Jakarta – Bureaucratic dysfunction – and sometimes greed – human errors and a lack of capabilities have hampered disaster risk management operation throughout 2011, National Disaster Mi

Banda Aceh, Indonesia – Aliya Humaira scribbled a message on yellow paper in the shape of a petal: "I love Papa, I love Mama, I love Sister Icha, I love Brother Kiki."

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has warned international green groups not to meddle in the country's domestic affairs, saying that their campaigns against fore

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Vento Saudale, Bogor – Influential homeowners in Bogor are reportedly preventing the city's administration from acting against 250 dwellings in the Puncak area that were built in breach

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – The Kalimantan orangutan population is increasingly under threat, with the discovery of the remains of several of the great apes that had been killed in forests

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The firms in charge of building and maintaining the Mahakam II Bridge that collapsed and killed at least 19 people on Saturday continued to deny all liability

Wahyoe Boediwardhana and Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Experts say that the East Java Legislative Council's recently approved draft bylaw on water management does not reflect the public

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – Indonesia's growing energy needs make the building of nuclear power plants unavoidable in the long term, a senior government official said on Monday.

Indonesian police have questioned a researcher who uncovered the alleged torture and killing of orangutans in a palm oil plantation area in East Kalimantan.

Jakarta – Members of the Center for Orangutan Protection protested in front the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Tuesday demanding that the President support the legal protection of or

A new survey says villagers on the Indonesian side of Borneo killed at least 750 endangered orangutans over a yearlong period, some to protect their crops and others for the apes' meat.

Jakarta – A recent global pledge to ban exports of toxic waste has not stemmed the flow of outdated electronic products to Indonesia, activists say.

Indonesia has been accused of attacking Greenpeace after the environmental group said on Thursday that a second campaigner had been deported by immigration officials in less than a week

Greenpeace has lashed out at allegations made by a legislator that one of its top British activists managed to skirt an entry ban into Indonesia by using a false passport.

Jakarta – The immigration office claimed on Monday that it did not issue a warrant to deport Greenpeace campaigner Andrew Ross Tait, prompting speculation that the warrant shown to him

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Jakarta – A member of the presidential Judicial Corruption Task Force is questioning government efforts to ban two Greenpeace activists from entering Indonesia, saying it might tarnish

Jakarta – Environmental group Greenpeace accuses the Indonesian authorities of trying to suppress freedom of speech with its recent barring of Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauv

Rizky Amelia – John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, was denied entry to Indonesia because he would "threaten the stability of the country," the immigration office has said.

Greenpeace on Friday accused Indonesia of waging a vendetta against the environmental group, after the head of its British branch was denied entry to Jakarta to campaign against defores

Bruce Gale – On July 15 this year, when members of the thuggish Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) staged a rally outside the headquarters of environmental group Greenpeace in Kemang, South

Jakarta – Members of two NGOs were involved in a clash on Wednesday, after negotiations failed in a demonstration over waste management rights for factories in Cikarang.

Jakarta – Noted international environmental organization Greenpeace has announced its concerns regarding the Indonesian government's stance toward massive forest clearing, destroying th

Jakarta – Poor infrastructure and human resources have hampered the enactment of the 2009 Environment Protection and Management, law a minister says.

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Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for Environment (Walhi) has said it will ask the West Sumbawa regency administration to fight in court mining giant PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara's plan to ext

Ismira Lutfia & Arientha Primanita – The death of orangutans as a result of human encroachment into their habitats in Kalimantan amounts to nothing less than genocide, a group advoc

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Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Sidoarjo – Residents from affected villages in Sidoarjo, East Java, were hopeful that the government would honor its pledge to pay out the remaining financial comp

Nirmal Ghosh, Bangkok – With several weeks still left to go in Indonesia's dry season, the number of hot spots in Sumatra and Kalimantan so far this year has hit 17,000 – more than doub

Agus Maryono and Yuli Tri Suwarni, Banyumas/Bandung – The drought that has afflicted Central Java for the last three months has created domestic and irrigation water crises in several p

The dry season in Indonesia has triggered a massive water crisis on many islands, including Java, where thousands of people have been forced to use muddy water for consumption.

An animal rights group is urging the government to be more proactive in putting a halt to the illegal trade in orangutan skulls.

Tifa Asrianti – Nurhayati, 38, a resident of Sukamaju village in Majalaya, Bandung regency held up her right hand.

Dion Bisara – The government plans to increase the amount of relief funds next year to repair broken dams in Sidoarjo, East Java, to control a mudflow caused by the rupture of a gas dri

Guido Goulart, Dili – A powerful earthquake hit waters off East Timor on Tuesday, but officials said it was too deep to trigger a tsunami.

Tifa Asrianti, Majalaya – Determined to clean up Java's heavily polluted rivers, environment activists have found that involving their local communities is the best way to attract the g

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Padang – The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) detected 203 hot spots across Sumatra on Tuesday, an official said.

The House of Representatives says it plans to summon Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa to provide an explanation about environmental group Greenpeace's presence in Indonesia.

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Banyuwangi – Residents in Banyuwangi have opposed PT Indo Multi Niaga's (PT IMN) mining operation, which they accuse of damaging the environment.