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.

Max Lane – Abdurrahman Wahid, the president of Indonesia between 1999 and 2001, died on December 30, aged 69.

Alfian, Jakarta – Indonesia will need US$4 billion in investment for energy efficiency projects to slash its energy consumption by a quarter, concludes a survey commissioned by the Asia

Reva Sasistiya – Investors have largely ignored the Energy Ministry's tenders for 17 oil and gas blocks offered in June because of the government's plans to amend cost-recovery regulati

Benget Besalicto Tnb., Manado – Regions, which are vital in economic development amid the current regional autonomy regime, will continue to struggle to take the lead role without a bre

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono blamed Tuesday the state utility firm PT PLN monopoly for the power shortages across the archipelago.

Alfian, Jakarta – The government estimates that the balance of trade in oil and fuels will remain negative this year with imports outweighing exports.

Janeman Latul & Venisa Tjahjono – Mining industry representatives said on Friday they were confused by a recently issued regulation restricting the work contractors were allowed to

Alfian, Jakarta – Indonesia has failed to attract enough investors to develop the oil and gas blocks offered in the first quarter of this year due to the global economic slowdown and co

Alfian, Jakarta – The House of Representatives almost unanimously passed on Tuesday a new electricity bill into law, which will allow each region to apply different electricity rates.

Reva Sasistiya – The House of Representatives' approval of the electricity bill on Tuesday means an industry long dominated by the state power provider will now finally be partially der

The death toll from a massive explosion in an Indonesian coal mine has risen to 27, with around a dozen men still trapped and feared dead deep underground, officials say.

Jakarta – Hundreds of thousands of new residences in the country are left without electricity as the state power firm, PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), defaulted on its commitment to

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Amid mounting opposition from the public and NGOs, the state electricity firm PLN has temporarily shelved plans to set up a nuclear power plant.

Agus Maryono, Purwokerto – Karmin, 40, seems happy as he chops dried bamboo poles which he later sells as firewood.

National leader John Key advocates that the Super Fund invests in up to 40% New Zealand companies.

Desy Nurhayati and Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday ordered state oil and gas firm PT Pertamina to roll back its decision to raise liquefied p

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Subsidized fuel consumption this year may exceed the capped volume of 35.5 million kiloliters by close to 10 percent, possibly prompting the government to in

The government has announced that the country's total subsidized fuel consumption likely to go beyond its initial expectation by 9.7 percent due to higher sales of motorcycles and cars.

Marianne Kearney, Dili – Plans to build a massive new power station in East Timor have stirred debate over the use of the tiny and impoverished country's oil profits amid fears the gove

Alfian, Jakarta – A lawmaker inquiry over the country's oil and gas management kicked off Thursday with the BPK disclosing a letter it sent to police on indications of graft in the dist

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A traditional tribal community in Waigeo, Raja Ampat regency, in Papua, has questioned the government's decision to authorize nine mining companies to ope

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' special committee tasked with investigating the government's fuel price rise policy has become enveloped in a fury of political man

Matt Chambers – Woodside Petroleum has ruled out a $15 billion East Timor liquefied natural gas export plant to process output from its Greater Sunrise fields.

Jakarta – Anglo-Australian giant BHP Billiton and an Indonesian firm announced Thursday a massive nickel mining partnership that has environmentalists raising concerns about a protected

Amid increasing concern about Indonesia's harsh treatment of peaceful protestors in West Papua, more than 30 human rights groups and individuals worldwide are warning BP that its new $U

A group of Papuan leaders have written to a British newspaper outlining a list of grievances with the operations of British Petroleum at the Tangguh gasfield in their part of Indonesia.

When BP set out to build a £3.5 billion natural gas plant in remote West Papua, local villagers hoped for a bright future. But all is not well.

Beginning last Monday, the National Student League for Democracy (LMND) held two-day demonstrations in Jakarta to rally the campaign for the nationalisation of oil, gas, and mining indu

Jakarta – Making an unannounced visit to a village in Bogor, West Java, on Sunday, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was surprised by what he found: gasoline sold in bottles and a fray

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Aceh has accused the central government of breaking the law and betraying its promise to the Acehnese people to share more of the province's oil and gas revenu

Andi Haswidi, Banda Aceh – Aceh is a province that is blessed by abundant natural resources and wealth that have long lain undeveloped due to a 32-year insurgency that only recently cam

Jakarta – State oil and gas company PT Pertamina said Friday it had discovered that tens of thousands of liters of kerosene designated for household use were being hoarded at a number o

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Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – House Speaker Agung Laksono joined growing calls Thursday for the immediate review of production-sharing contracts granted to multinational corporations to

Jakarta – An explosion at an oil refinery in Indonesia early Saturday injured nearly 150 people and caused about 7,000 residents to flee their homes, police said.

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Oktamandjaya Wiguna, Jakarta – Elements of the Acehnese people, including the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) and the Aceh Traditions Council (MAA) met

Jakarta – Nineteen people are still on the run following last month's riots in Indonesia's Papua province in which six people were killed, police said.

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – Four suspects in an attack on an exploration camp run by US mining giant Newmont in Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara, are being treated at separate hospitals after b

Surakarta – A group of Muslims representing several Islamic boarding schools in Surakarta staged a rally at the Gladag traffic circle here Friday over the takeover of the Cepu oil block

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