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January 11, 2006

Jakarta Post - January 11, 2006

Suherdjoko, Semarang – A joint study by three Yogyakarta universities has found that 97 districts in 27 of Central Java's 35 regencies and cities are at risk for landslides.

January 9, 2006

Jakarta Post - January 9, 2006

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – After living in a tent in a tsunami refugee camp for months, Cut Samsidar left Aceh Besar regency for Medan two months ago to work as housemaid.

January 8, 2006

Jakarta Post - January 8, 2006

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Two young men put on their goggles and start counting down before jumping out of the window of their house into their flooded garden.

Jakarta Post - January 8, 2006

Slamet Susanto, Banjarnegara – Rescue workers on Saturday called off the search for bodies buried in the Banjarnegara landslide disaster, with the total death toll now at 58.

January 6, 2006

January 5, 2006

Reuters - January 5, 2006

Dwi Prasetyo, Sijeruk – Indonesian rescuers searched on Friday for more bodies buried under tons of mud after massive landslides on Java island while helicopters flew food and medicine

January 4, 2006

Jakarta Post - January 4, 2006

Iman Dwianto Nugroho, Jember – Salimah, a woman at her 40s, looked pale. Her clothes blackened with mud, the frail villager has not had food for two days.

January 3, 2006

Australian Associated Press - January 3, 2006

Hundreds of rescue workers and soldiers have struggled to reach villages devastated by floods and landslides in Indonesia's East Java. The known death toll has now climbed to 63.

January 2, 2006

Jakarta Post - January 2, 2006

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Sawmill owners operating in West Lampung can easily get permits saying wood taken from the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park is legal, an activist sa

December 31, 2005

December 30, 2005

Jakarta Post - December 30, 2005

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Jakartans' out of sight, out of mind attitude to domestic and industrial waste has caused the city's 13 rivers to become so polluted that if the city administr

December 27, 2005

Jakarta Post - December 27, 2005

Nani Afrida, special to The Seattle Times – It has been one year since the tsunami devastated Aceh.

Jakarta Post - December 27, 2005

A'an Suryana and Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Tearful mourners gathered here on Monday to offer prayers and lay flowers on the first anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the wor

December 24, 2005

Associated Press - December 24, 2005

Banda Aceh – Some parents in tsunami-ravaged Aceh province are still clinging to hopes for a miracle, placing photos of smiling children in newspapers on the chance they might still be

Agence France Presse - December 24, 2005

Banda Aceh – Bustari Mansyur shrugs wearily when asked how many bodies his workers retrieved from the mangled wreckage of last December's tsunami. The question seems irrelevant.

December 22, 2005

Jakarta Post - December 22, 2005

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – While the President has set out to clean up politics, it seems the air in the nation's capital is only getting dirtier.

December 17, 2005

December 15, 2005

Reuters - December 15, 2005

Jakarta – The head of reconstruction in Indonesia's tsunami-devastated Aceh province defended the pace of home rebuilding for survivors on Thursday, saying it was exceeding the country'

December 14, 2005

Jakarta Post - December 14, 2005

Andrew Steele, Jakarta – The wagons are already circling.

December 10, 2005

Jakarta Post - December 10, 2005

Tb. Arie Rukmantara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has urged the government to address environmental problems from a human rights point of view.

December 6, 2005

Business Times (Singapore) - December 6, 2005

Shoeb Kagda, Jakarta – Nearly one year after 15-metre-high waves smashed into the Aceh coast, the Indonesian province worst hit by the Dec 26 tsunami is slowly but surely regaining its

December 5, 2005

Jakarta Post - December 5, 2005

Rusman, Samarinda – After illegal logging, coal mining is now the biggest danger to the environment of East Kalimantan.

December 4, 2005

The Age (Melbourne) - December 4, 2005

Tim Hume – Teenage tsunami survivors in Indonesia's stricken Aceh province are turning to marijuana to escape the trauma and despair.

December 2, 2005

November 22, 2005

Jakarta Post - November 22, 2005

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

November 18, 2005

Jakarta Post - November 18, 2005

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,

November 16, 2005

Jakarta Post - November 16, 2005

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

November 15, 2005

Agence France Presse - November 15, 2005

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

November 11, 2005

Jakarta Post - November 11, 2005

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.

November 10, 2005

Jakarta Post - November 10, 2005

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

November 7, 2005

The Australian - November 7, 2005

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.

November 5, 2005

Jakarta Post - November 5, 2005

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.

November 3, 2005

Reuters - November 3, 2005

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

November 2, 2005

Wall Street Journal - November 2, 2005

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

November 1, 2005

Jakarta Post - November 1, 2005

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

October 28, 2005

Reuters - October 28, 2005

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

October 27, 2005

October 25, 2005

The Guardian (UK) - October 25, 2005

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.

October 18, 2005

Reuters - October 18, 2005

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

October 17, 2005

October 16, 2005

Jakarta Post - October 16, 2005

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

October 15, 2005

Jakarta Post - October 15, 2005

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

Jakarta Post - October 15, 2005

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

October 10, 2005

September 28, 2005

Associated Press - September 28, 2005

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

September 23, 2005

Jakarta Post - September 23, 2005

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

September 20, 2005

Associated Press - September 20, 2005

Miedy Pakasi, Manado – Newmont Mining Corp.