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

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

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

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

Rangga Prakoso & Fidel Ali, Jakarta – The government will allow Newmont Nusa Tenggara and Freeport Indonesia to resume exports of concentrates soon after the two companies showed th

Satria Sambijantoro and Linda Yulisman, Headlines – The government is considering scrapping tax incentives for the low-cost green car (LCGC) program as the program's economic costs and

Cory Rogers, Yogyakarta/Jakarta – A government-backed plan to construct nuclear power plants in Indonesia has been met with backlash by several local groups in the archipelago, highligh

Jakarta – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold said its Indonesian unit may need to declare force majeure on copper concentrate sales if a dispute with the government over export taxes dr

Jayapura – Three police officers have been arrested for stealing cable belonging to gold and copper mining company PT Freeport Indonesia (FI) in Timika, Papua.

David Winning, Sydney – For nearly a decade, East Timor has relied on revenue from a huge natural-gas field to rebuild after the country's war of independence with Indonesia.

East Manggarai – Hundreds of residents of Elar, Sambirampas and Lambaleda districts demonstrated in front of the East Manggarai Council building, East Manggarai regency in East Nusa Ten

Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights, Komnas HAM, has released its findings regarding serious human rights violations in the Freeport big Gossan tunnel cave-in that claimed t

Sao Tome and Principe and Timor-Leste (East Timor) was due Friday to start a re-evaluation of the bilateral oil agreements and a study to set up a consortium for onshore exploration of

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Local communities in Batang, Central Java, have urged the government to drop its plan to construct a US$4 billion coal-fired power plant, saying that its enviro

Wilda Asmarini & Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – Indonesia's mines minister, Jero Wacik, has been on an unusual mission in recent months: finding a way out of implementing his own gover

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – The Indonesian government said on Thursday that it would stick to its guns on the export tax for unprocessed ores, defying stern opposition and lobbying a

Markus Makur, Labuan Bajo – Dozens of women who are part of the West Manggarai Independent Women's Alliance (APIR) in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) staged a rally on Monday, urging West Mang

Kanupriya Kapoor & Yayat Supriatna – Indonesia, one of the world's biggest resource exporters, halted all mineral ore exports on Sunday in a bid to promote domestic processing, but

Fergus Jensen and Wilda Asmarini – Indonesia's planned mineral export ban – a policy designed to force miners to process their ores domestically – is sending shudders through the econom

Bagus BT Saragih and Linda Yulisman – The government may provide relief for mineral exporters, who have cried foul over the policy of banning raw ore exports from next year, by utilizin

Raras Cahyafitri, Sorong, West Papua – Resource-rich areas in eastern Indonesia, particularly Maluku and Papua, are expected to produce more oil and gas and contribute to the national o

Paulina Quintao – NGO La'o Hamutuk's representative Charles Scheiner urged the Timor-Leste government to halt two contracts to the Chinese Nuclear Industry Construction No.