Dion Bisara – The House of Representatives approved on Friday a hefty 35 percent increase in fuel subsidies amid speculation that the government was planning to raise subsidized fuel pr

An official presence by Jakarta at a conference in Papua discussing peaceful solutions to the long simmering conflict in the region has been described as positive.

Jakarta – Following Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) deputy chairman Ma'ruf Amien's statement on Monday that it is a sin for private car owners to buy subsidized fuel as it violates the r

Ross Kelly, Sydney – East Timor is calling for Royal Dutch Shell PLC.

Dion Bisara & Faisal Maliki Baskoro – The government should raise fuel prices instead of putting further strain on the state budget with additional fuel and power subsidies, analyst

An article from a former employee of the energy company Woodside has labelled their negotiating style "arrogant" and "adversarial", saying it's largely the company's own fault that long

Over 100 demonstrators protesting the issuance of mining permits vandalized the gate of the Aceh governor's office on Monday after they were banned from staging a rally inside the build

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – East Timor has rejected a claim that its leaders are failing their mainly impoverished people by blocking development of the Greater Sunrise oil and gas field,

Woodside Petroleum Ltd says East Timor's government has ignored requests for talks on the stalled Sunrise development and that competitors had shown interest in buying the $7 billion pr

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – An activist in Aceh has attacked the provincial administration for endorsing a mining plan that he insists will severely damage the environment and cause more

Pushing back plans to reduce subsidized fuel usage because of worries about rising inflation is risking the country's fiscal health, analysts say.

The Indonesian government has expressed an interest in investing in oil and mining infrastructure, among other industries, in East Timor.

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Indonesia said on Wednesday that it will press on with plans to build a nuclear plant close to a fault line, despite the atomic emergency in earthquake and tsunami-ravaged Japan.

A treaty between Australia and East Timor covering the Greater Sunrise liquefied natural gas development is at risk, according to a report in The Australian, with East Timor threatening

Australia sees no need to intervene in the dispute between oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum Ltd and East Timor over how to develop the vast Greater Sunrise gas field, Resources M

Amir Tejo, Sidoarjo, East Java – A new application for a gas drilling project by the company widely blamed for triggering a mud volcano that devastated the region must be accepted first

Ririn Radiwati Kusuma & Reuters – An Energy Ministry official urged legislators on Wednesday to rethink the cabotage law as it could hurt oil and gas production in a nation already

Sara Everingham – A bitter dispute between East Timor's Government and the Australian-based oil and gas company Woodside is continuing.

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – A proposal has emerged for Woodside to supply gas for East Timor's domestic consumption as a way to break a deadlock in negotiations over the multibillion-doll

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – Domestic and foreign oil companies operating in Indonesia may not make huge changes in their investment next year as they are hampered by government regulations

Alfian, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) recorded that domestic bank lending to the oil, gas, and mining sectors is still very small, contributing only around 3.17 percent of total banks'

Imung Yuniardi, Semarang – Developing nuclear power in Indonesia is not feasible due to the huge initial investment required and the high price of uranium, a government energy expert sa

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – Indonesia is wooing investors at home and abroad to spend more exploring and developing the country's oil and gas reserves as it struggles to meet output target

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – The construction of two second-hand Chinese power plants in East Timor is an escalating environmental and safety disaster that has been hit by delays and cost

Lindsay Murdoch – East Timor has renewed its criticism of Woodside over its plans to build a floating liquefied natural gas platform above the Timor Sea's Greater Sunrise field, warning

Ross Kelly, Sydney – Three big oil companies have met a request by East Timor to submit different development concept studies for the Greater Sunrise gas field but an impasse over where

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma & Francezka Nangoy, Jakarta – Businesses gave a thumbs down to the plan to cut fuel subsidies revealed on Thursday, with most warning that a ban on cheap gas

Florence Tan, Singapore – Indonesia's crude imports will keep rising over the next few years as its economy rebounds and a delay in getting peak output from the giant Cepu oil field def

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma, Jakarta – The National Nuclear Energy Agency on Thursday said it was looking for locations on Bangka Island to build two large nuclear power plants worth Rp 54 t

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma & Dion Bisara, Jakarta – The on-again, off-again electricity rate hike for next year is officially off, with the House of Representatives voting on Tuesday to

Paul Cleary – East Timor is continuing to entertain plans to drill for oil in waters as deep as 1900m.

Aubrey Belford, Dili, East Timor – To Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho, the explosion last spring on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico – and the oil that then gush

Dili – Australia's Woodside Petroleum has changed its position and will consider processing gas from East Timor's vast Greater Sunrise liquefied natural gas fields on East Timor shores,

Jakarta – Residents of Siak district in Riau are fast abandoning their three-kilogram gas canisters in favor of firewood because of safety fears.

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma, Jakarta – The government has agreed to demands by the House of Representatives to scrap plans to raise electricity rates again next year.

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – Under pressure from lawmakers, the government on Thursday offered to reduce next year's proposed electricity rate hike from 15 percent to 5.4 percent.

Ulma Haryanto & Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – A government plan to revoke the state subsidy on three-kilogram gas cylinders came under criticism from consumers on Wednesday, with some acc

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – In response to a series of explosions involving three-kilogram gas cylinders, which have left dozens dead and scores injured, a government minister said on

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – In response to a string of explosions involving three-kilogram liquid petroleum gas cylinders, the government is considering scrapping the subsidy on the c

Stephanie Riady, Jakarta – On the fateful Tuesday morning last week, an LPG gas cylinder explosion claimed the life of Muhammad Sofyan's beloved wife and left him fighting for his life

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Some 400,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Yogyakarta province face collapse due to electricity rate hikes that have made them less competitive, ac

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The government was criticized on Tuesday for not taking the spate of gas cylinder explosions seriously, as a planned meeting on t

Camelia Pasandaran, Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Arti Ekawati & Dion Bisara, Jakarta – The government on Monday vowed to cap an electricity rate increase for industrial users at 18 percen

Camelia Pasandaran – A woman from Bojonegoro, East Java, whose toddler son suffered severe burns from a 3kg-gas cylinder explosion came to the State Palace to meet President Susilo Bamb

Arientha Primanita & Ulma Haryanto – The Three-kilogram gas cylinders may be subsidized, but for West Jakarta resident Rahmono, 50, they are little more than cheap time bombs.

Camelia Pasandaran, Dion Bisara, Arti Ekawati & Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Smarting from a barrage of criticism from businesses and industries, the government on Wednesday acknowledged

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – A blockade of the giant Arun liquefied natural gas plant in northern Aceh by more than 500 villagers demanding the company honor 36-year-old promises entered

Arti Ekawati – Manufacturers are up in arms over the recent electricity rate hikes, with some saying their rates have doubled and accusing the Energy Ministry and state utility PT Perus

Jakarta – A new study by the National Consumer Protection Agency (BPKN) says massive safety flaws are to blame for a spate of almost 100 gas explosions in households.