Fidelis E Satriastanti – Underground mining officially became legal in the country's protected forests on Feb. 1.

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Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – Illegal conversion of conservation areas into oil palm plantations remains rampant in the Tesso Nilo National Park, Riau, allegedly involving high military fi

Putri Prameshwari & Antara – The search for victims of the landslide at the Dewata tea plantation near Bandung will be halted at noon today, even though a dozen people are still mis

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The ministry of energy and mineral resources has proposed that the government postpone the implementation of the 2009 law on environment for two year on fears it

Camelia Pasandaran – Residents of the Dewata tea plantation in Tenjolaya village, Bandung, had just started the day on Tuesday when they heard an unusual noise.

The death toll has risen to seven and more than 60 people are still missing after a landslide struck a remote part of West Java's Bandung district on Tuesday.

Adianto P. Simamora – Legislators have urged the government to take action against 11 mining companies that have been operating in areas of protected forest without permits.

David Weber – The oil leak from a wellhead platform in the Timor Sea late last year appears to have spread into Indonesian waters.

Fidelis E Satriastanti, Nusa Dua – As Indonesia hosts an international meeting on toxic and hazardous chemicals here, a nongovernmental organization said on Sunday that an increase in t

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Paris – Drilling firm PT Lapindo Brantas, owned by Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie, was to blame for unleashing a mud volcano in East Java that claimed 14 lives and displaced tens

Amir Tejo & Fidelis E Satriastanti – In response to new report by British geologist Richard Davies that said the Sidoarjo mudflow was caused by human error, East Java Police on Frid

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Rumbadi Dalle, Jakarta – A group of fishermen in Riau Islands, Sumatra, have launched a legal complaint against and demand for compensation to an Asian consortium-owned mining equipment

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Indonesia will file a demand to Australia asking for compensation after the latter's oil rig leaked in Indonesian territory in Timor Sea, says the Indonesian

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The idea to develop Indonesia's first nuclear energy plant has been around since the 1970, but the project has gone in and out of fashion as political factions have come and gone.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Students in the West Aceh capital of Meulaboh have ended a five-day hunger strike to demand housing for survivors of the 2004 tsunami after several of the str

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Almost 100 days into his tenure as environment minister and Gusti Muhammad Hatta found himself confronted by visibly irritated lawmakers who wanted to know why

The government is expected to handle more cases involving poaching, trading and smuggling of endangered and protected animal species in Indonesia this year, but on the other hand the fa

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights has deepened its investigation to find out whether gross human rights violations were committed against the thousands of people living

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Commission on Human Rights has extended to April the working period of an ad hoc team tasked with investigating allegations of gross human rights

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Copenhagen climate change conference might be over, but differences continue to arise between environmentalists and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyo

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will announce the results of its final investigation on possible gross violations of human rights against thousands of mud

Dewi Kurniawati, Sekutur Jaya, Jambi – Despite its serenity, complete with smiling, laid-back people, a serious problem is weighing heavily upon this remote village in central Sumatra.

The government says that it will seek compensation from Australia for environmental damage in the Timor Sea caused by a leak at the Montara well.

Fidelis E Satriastanti – While the recent Copenhagen climate talks have been criticized for failing to produce a concrete agreement on emissions cuts, local activists are now turning th

Anita Rachman, Nurfika Osman & Arientha Primanita – Sitting astride the "Ring of Fire," a geologically unstable section of the earth's crust below the Pacific Ocean, Indonesia recei

Surabaya – Mudflow victims in Sidoarjo, East Java, have criticized the developer building their houses in Renojoyo village, which they claimed were of low quality and unfit to live in,

Hundreds of tsunami refugees in Aceh province held a rally in front of West Aceh's Regional Representative Council Building on Monday to demand homes that they said the government had p

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Today, the people of Aceh commemorate the most tragic day in our history with prayers, memories and visits to the mass graves that hold the unidentified remai

Lampuk (Indonesia) – Ikra Alfila has rediscovered the joy of play, but the little 10-year-old still has nightmares about giant waves five years after the tsunami that killed everyone in

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesia could formally embrace nuclear power as early as next year as senior Government members push to revive a proposal to build up to four reactors just 30 ki

Adrienne Francis - There are renewed concerns that one of Australia's worst exotic pests may have hitchhiked to East Timor.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) promised to follow up reports on alleged corruption in the issuance of a letter to halt an investigation against P

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Following a PT Pertamina pipeline accident last week that left one dead in South Sumatra, Indonesia's leading green group on Monday urged the local government t

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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.