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Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The government's proposed incentives for oil and gas businesses may not be the game-changer policy the weak industry badly needs.

Jakarta – The government has argued that it must build coal-fired power plants (PLTUs) across the country to meet soaring electricity demand.

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Dylan Amirio, Jakarta – The future of Indonesia's oil and gas sector continues to look bleak with latest estimates showing oil lifting rates plunging by almost half from current levels by 2020, wit

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Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government is seeking to sue more companies blamed for 25 deaths at depleted coal mine pits in East Kalimantan that took place between 2011 and 2016 after years of

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has decried the government's "protracted inaction" in dealing with 25 deaths at depleted coal mine pits in East Kalimantan that took p

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Shinta Maharani, Yogyakarta – A group of young artists under the Alliance for Art Jog 2016 Boycott urged the Art Jog 2016 committee to return a sponsorship money worth Rp100 million (US$7,500) give

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Jakarta – Civil society groups have slammed the police's handling of an anti-mining rally in Merigi Kelindang, Central Bengkulu, at the weekend after four local residents were shot and two police o

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Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Oil imports will swell to more than US$40 billion in 2019 from the current value of $15 billion, as domestic supply continues to fall amid lack of exploration while demand

Arnold Belau, Jayapura – As many as 101 Mobile Brigade (Brimob, paramilitary police) personnel from the East Java regional police (Polda) were sent to West Papua on Monday May 16.

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Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The government should exclude mining permit (IUP) holders as potential beneficiaries of a planned tax amnesty, NGOs have demanded, arguing that hundreds of them had evad

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government should move away from its dependency on dirty coal to cleaner renewable energy if it is to meet its ambitious capacity target to install 35 gigawatts (G

Venidora Oliveira – With oil production in Kitan and Bayu-Undan is in steep decline, there are calls for the Timorese government to boost state revenue by developing other sectors.

Fedina S. Sundaryani – Oil and gas companies are increasingly reluctant to keep exploring for new deposits as oil prices remain at an all-time low.

Jayapura – Papuan activists met with US Ambassador to Indonesia Robert Blake in the provincial capital on Tuesday to discuss human rights, politics and US-owned Freeport Indonesia.

Palu – Twenty-one illegal gold miners are receiving hospital treatment after a clash with hundreds of police officers and forest rangers near Lore Lindu National Park in Poso regency, Central Sulaw

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The National Nuclear Energy Agency (Batan) has encouraged the government to provide more funding and ease regulatory processes for the construction of the country's first nuc

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – Environmental activists have found indications that police and military personnel have been involved in illegal gold mining in the Lore Lindu National Park (TNLL) in the Pos

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Despite slow progress on the construction of new smelters due to weak commodity markets, the government insists it will not relax rules that prohibit the export of raw m

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – With coal prices continuing to decline, Indonesia will struggle to provide the coal needed to fire up its power stations in the near future, a study predicts.

Ayomi Amindoni, Business – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has ordered members of his administration working in the energy sector to immediately increase fuel stocks to maximize benefits from the pl

Benny Mawel, Jayapura, Indonesia – Protesting tribal youths in Papua urged the Indonesian government to seize operations of the U.S.-based PT Freeport McMoRan copper mining company and install a Pa

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The government may yet again shelve its plan to impose a complete ban on raw material exports after acknowledging slow progress in the nation's smelter development.

Jakarta – PT Freeport Indonesia has received a recommendation from the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry for the extension of its export permit although the gold and copper mining giant has yet

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – State revenues are estimated to fall between Rp 67 trillion (US$4.91 billion) and Rp 100 trillion this year, as declining global oil prices gnaw away at the state's coff

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The government is revising the regulation on the assessment of smelter development, connected to leniency in export permits, as part of its efforts to support mining fir

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – What is needed most in Papua is not the construction of railways or the extension of Freeport Indonesia's contract, but a dialogue between Jakarta-Papua to seek a co

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The continuing decline in crude oil prices will mean that Indonesia will not meet its national oil production target this year and output will likely fall by nine percen

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Copper mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia will see its exports halted starting Friday after failing to realize its commitment to smelter development.

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Amid concerns of a negative impact on the local economy, the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has eased its stance over requirements for copper miner PT Freeport In

Tama Salim, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Commission III overseeing legal affairs plans to set up a working committee with the objective of "assisting" Attorney General Office (AGO) prose

Ayomi Amindoni – House of Representatives Commission VII overseeing the energy sector has described a share value that PT Freeport Indonesia offered to the Indonesian government as unrealistic.

Indonesia's government is unhappy with the price on offer for shares in Freeport Indonesia, which operates a massive mine complex in Papua.

Anton Hermansyah, Business – PT Freeport Indonesia has failed to fulfill its planned smelter construction progress and thus the US gold and copper mining giant must keep paying 5 percent export dut

Robert Isidorus, Jayapura – Papuan activists met with US Ambassador to Indonesia Robert Blake in the provincial capital on Tuesday to discuss human rights, politics and US-owned Freeport Indonesia.