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Bambang Bider, Contributor, Kalimantan – Life becomes more meaningful when one becomes aware that everything in this universe is a whole entity, the parts of which are interrelated and

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – A herd of some 20 wild elephants from the South Bukit Barisan National Park (TNBBS) in Lampung ventured again into nearby settlements in the past week,

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has reported threats made against its activists investigating illegal logging in Aceh to the National Police and the Ministry

Jakarta – A court in the Indonesian capital rejected a government multi-million-dollar pollution lawsuit against US mining giant Newmont and ruled the case should be settled by arbitrat

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Environmentalists in Lampung lashed out at the Bumi Kedaton Safari Park (TWABK) management for treating animals under its care poorly.

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Khairil Anwar acknowledged he felt depressed.

Sian Powell, Mon Ikeun – It is damp, crowded and hot – a tatty canvas tent surrounded by mud and puddles and home to four adult Acehnese sisters and two children.

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Many still living in tents, the Acehnese celebrated their first Idul Fitri almost a year after the tsunami devastated Aceh and parts of North Sumatra.

Bill Tarrant, Lampuuk – In a little shack they built on a rubble-strewn field where the tsunami travelled the farthest inland, a group of teenaged boys orphaned in the disaster have mad

Peter Fritsch, Banda Aceh – The tsunami story of fisherman Zamzami is sadly familiar: A black wave taller than the coastal coconut trees swallowed his home, his wife and five of his six

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Ten months after the devastating tsunami that claimed more than 210,000 human lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of others last December, the public

Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – Indonesia, criticised for slow reconstruction in tsunami-hit areas, has set up a special trust fund to speed rebuilding as the disaster's anniversary approache

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John Aglionby – The peace process begun two months ago by the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (Gam) is developing in a way virtually no observer predicted.

Bill Tarrant, Lamteungoh – Putri's baby is big.

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Arie Rukmana – Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) executive director Chalid Muhammad (left) talks with former minister of the environment Sonny Keraf during a ceremony held to

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – A network of wildlife protection groups will report three high-ranking officials from the Jakarta's Natural Resources Conservation Agency to the police for their

Jongker Rumteh, Manado – The trial of a local subsidiary of US-based Newmont Mining Corp resumed at the Manado District Court on Friday, with its American president director insisting t

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Febry Orida, Leupung – Every morning Yahya leaves home with a hoe in hand.

Padang – An environmental group has issued a statement in protest over West Sumatra Governor Gamawan Fauzi's decision to issue a letter of recommendation to the central government to gr

Miedy Pakasi, Manado – Newmont Mining Corp.

Jerry Norton, Krueng Raya – As he impales coconuts on a sharp blade and twists them to remove the husks, M. Nur Taib says things are looking up.

Alan Sipress, Lhok Bubon – The massive tsunami that crashed into Sumatra island in December ripped Ibu Yusniar's home from its concrete foundation.

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Scott Baldauf, Banda Aceh – When the tsunami came to sweep away her seaside home, her three children, and her husband, Yuniarti thought that she had lost everything she could possibly l

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Less than two weeks after the US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a $20 million program of assistance to help improve Indonesia's legal syst

Manado – The Manado District Court ruled in favor of mining company PT Newmont Minahasa Raya in a defamation case against an environmentalist on Tuesday.

Jakarta – US mining giant Newmont Mining Corp.

Jakarta – Shortly after its petition was rejected by the Constitutional Court, the Indonesian Environmental Forum (Walhi) said on Thursday it planned to file a new one with additional e

The United Nations said on Friday international aid was flowing smoothly to tsunami-hit areas of Aceh, denying reports of large numbers of containers languishing on Indonesian wharfs.

Jakarta – Environmental organizations have slammed the recent Constitutional Court verdict allowing mining companies to continue operations in protected forests, saying it set a bad pre

Jakarta – The government is moving toward closure in the case against US giant Newmont Mining Corp.

Jakarta – The government has decided to continue the construction of a controversial highway project in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, but will create a new route to avoid passing through a

Jongker Rumteh, Buyat – Some 66 families living in Buyat Bay decided to take their fate in their own hands, relocating from their homes in Ratatotok district, South Minahasa regency to

Large scale corruption has marred tsunami reconstruction in Aceh province, with more than US$100 million earmaarked for disaster relief unaccounted for, a legislator and an aid worker w

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Six months after the tsunami swept the region, many frustrated survivors of the disaster are still living in tents and struggling to survive, with the reconstr

Kathy Marks, Gle Bruk, Aceh – The Acehnese fishermen had just returned with their catch and were on their way back to the refugee camp.

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Sian Powell – Frustrated with the immense damage the slowly moving Newmont legal drama has had on Indonesia's foreign investment image, the nation's president has demanded frequent brie

Shoeb Kagda, Jakarta – With the wet season fast approaching, patience is running thin in Aceh.

Dean Yates, Aceh West Coast – High school students in the Acehnese town of Teunom drain rain water off the top of their tent before they begin lessons.

Jakarta – The government will soon negotiate an out-of-court settlement with PT Newmont Minahasa Raya (NMR), a local unit of a US-based gold mining company, which non-governmental organ

David Adam – Another catastrophic giant earthquake similar to the one that caused carnage across the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day last year is lurking off Indonesia, say scientists.

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – An out-of-court settlement that the government plans to seek with gold miner PT Newmont Minahasa Raya proves to be another example of a failure to serve the peop

Hera Diani, Jakarta – The government made the commissioning of an environmental impact analysis mandatory for all major projects 20 years ago.

Carol Goar – Her house is uninhabitable. Her town has been reduced to rubble. She has lost relatives and friends.