Rangga Prakoso, Jakarta – Papua disapproves of mining giant Freeport Indonesia's plan to build a smelter facility outside Papua, calling the move indicative of the company's lack of good deeds to t

An exiled West Papuan independence leader says people from a remote village near the Freeport mine have fled into mountains for fear of the Indonesian military.

Jayapura – The Papua Police have nabbed 13 members of an armed separatist group led by Ayub Waker following the deaths of two Mobile Brigade personnel and a Freeport employee in Utikini village, Mi

Jakarta – Gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia has appointed former State Intelligence Agency (BIN) deputy chief Maroef Sjamsuddin as its new president director to replace Rozik B.

Brasilia – The Angolan state-owned oil company, Sonangol, has been invited to carry out prospecting and exploration for oil in Timor Leste.

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Indonesians will enter a new era of free-floating fuel prices after the government finally decided to overhaul the country's high-cost fuel subsidies just before the

Fitri Wulandari, Eko Listiyorini & Sharon Chen, Jakarta – Indonesia will cap the diesel subsidy and scrap aid for gasoline beginning tomorrow, the biggest changes to a decades-old s

Venidora Oliveira – The community of Cova in the sub-district of Balibo within Bobonara has not had electricity from the time of independence until the present day.

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Timika – Activities at the PT Freeport Indonesia (PT FI) Amamapare Port Site in Timika, Papua, returned to normal on Thursday after access to the location – which had been blockaded by

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Major oil and gas producers have called on the government to introduce a more flexible regulatory framework in order to prevent an energy crisis that could o

Hasyim Widhianto, Jakarta – Less than a month after assuming the country's highest public post, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo hiked the prices of subsidized fuel on Monday in a bid to

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – In the absence of a regional bylaw prohibiting illegal sand quarries, small entrepreneurs in Tangerang regency keep extracting sand without permits.

Jakarta – Protests surrounding the Indonesian government's move to cut fuel subsidy has surprisingly been minimal, with police saying only nine protests were carried out in the capital

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry announced on Sunday the establishment of a team to solve rampant governance problems that have been gnawing at the

Headlines – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's economic team is formulating strategies to ease the negative impact from an upcoming rise in fuel prices on business, as entrepreneurs also

Jakarta – Indonesia's new energy and mineral resources minister on Tuesday launched a major shakeup of the graft-tainted ministry, requiring all top directors to re-apply for their jobs

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) central board member, Puan Maharani, who is also Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister, has ins

Erwida Maulia, Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo gave his strongest signal yet on Tuesday of his intention to raise the price of subsidized fue

David Fogarty – Out of the jungles of East Borneo in Indonesia comes the fire that fuels Asia's burgeoning economies: coal.

One of the first issues to confront President Joko Widodo after taking office is the proposed plan to drastically cut fuel subsidies.

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The national output of a number of commodities has dropped significantly this year, as expected, on account of the government's mineral ore export ban.

Kanupriya Kapoor & Michael Taylor, Jakarta – Indonesia's President-elect Joko Widodo plans to raise subsidized gasoline and diesel prices by around 50 percent next month in a bid to

Jakarta – Freeport-McMoRan Inc's Indonesian unit can resume open-pit mining at its Grasberg complex, one of the world's biggest copper mines, after it agreed to improve safety following

Satria Sambijantoro, Bali – Nobel laureate economist Joseph E.

Paulina Quintao – Petroleum and minerals extraction may be seen as an industry dominated by men but Timorese women have shown they too have the capacity to get the job done.

Indonesia's state owned energy firm Pertamina will establish a joint venture company with Timor Leste's state company to develop oil and gas sector in the nation, according to a Pertami

Hans Nicholas Jong and Ni Komang Erviani, Nusa Dua, Bali – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono hosted a two-hour discussion with president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in Nusa Dua, Bali, o

Rangga Prakoso & Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – State energy company Pertamina lifted daily quotas on purchases of diesel and gasoline late on Tuesday, eight days after being implemented, i

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – The fallout from a sustained decline in commodity prices and the government's recent ban on raw mineral ore exports have caused non-performing loans (NPLs) i

Arya Dipa and Fadli, Bandung/Batam – A number of gas stations in cities and regencies across the country have run out of subsidized diesel and gasoline fuel stocks.

Thin Lei Win, Bali, Indonesia – Under a full moon one night in 2006, 30 machete-wielding men surrounded Aleta Baun in the middle of a forest as she headed home to breastfeed her younges

Copper mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia aims to complete 7.5 percent of its smelter development in the coming months, although the company has not released details as to when it plans

Freeport-McMoRan Inc's Indonesia unit will complete on Thursday loading for its first copper concentrate export shipment since new mining rules were introduced in the Southeast Asian na

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – A number of business associations have called on the government to entirely scrap the fuel subsidy, instead of limiting consumption of subsidized fuel types in c

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – With the government's subsidy on fuel expected to reach Rp 246 trillion ($21 billion) this year, up from an initial target of Rp 210 trillion, the in

Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – The sale of subsidized fuel in Central Jakarta and on the capital's toll roads will be restricted starting this month in order to control rapid consumption which

Raras Cahyafitri and Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Less than three months before the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is due to leave office, it sealed a strategic

The top priority of Indonesia's likely next government will be to cut fuel subsidies to control the country's widening budget deficit, a move it hopes to accomplish within the first 100

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Delays in a number of gas field development projects may result in imports being the only answer to growing need, a senior official at the Energy and Mineral

Rick Wilkinson, Melbourne – The Democratic Republic of Timor Leste (East Timor) is planning its first bid round for onshore acreage toward the end of this year.

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Indonesian officials keep sending mixed messages regarding the contract renegotiation with Freeport Indonesia – with a minister saying it is imperative

Satria Sambijantoro and Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The outgoing administration will not ink an extension deal with PT Freeport Indonesia concerning its contract to mine the world large

Sajid Shaikh – A campaign against tin mining in Bangka and Belitung islands of Indonesia is targeting tech giant Microsoft.

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Oil and gas companies are losing their appetite to invest in Indonesia, thanks to a number of critical challenges that remain unsolved for years, according t

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, the strongest contender in the upcoming presidential election, said he would gradually remove the costly fuel subsi

Business – State-owned electricity company PT PLN says it burned 1.84 million kiloliters of fossil fuel in the first quarter of 2014.

Clyde Russell, Launceston, Australia – Indonesia s decision to start cancelling investment treaties with 62 countries has passed with little comment, but the move may have a greater imp

Peter Klinger – Thailand's PTTEP hopes to sort out the ownership structure of its Timor Sea assets, including the big Cash-Maple gas fields, by the end of the year but says it is open t

Kota Kinabalu – University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) and the Timor Leste's Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ministry and its Education Ministry today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU