East Timor's Oil Fund grew by US$720.94 million in the fourth quarter of 2012 and ended the year with a total value of US$11.777 billion, said the East Timor Central Bank.

East Timor may carry out its natural gas exploration in the Timor Sea without other partners, thus bringing an end to its partnership with Australia's Woodside Petroleum, the Timorese M

East Timor's petroleum and natural resources minister said Thursday the nation may develop a multi-billion dollar gas project alone, ending its involvement with Australia's Woodside Pet

Amahl S. Azwar, Jakarta – Indonesia needs to build more oil refineries to ensure its future energy security.

Damien Kingsbury – Woodside and the East Timorese government have just 10 days to strike a deal on a lucrative gas project – or the controversial sea boundary between Australia and East

The governments of East Timor and Thailand last week signed a memorandum of understanding to boost cooperation in exploration and development of the Timorese oil sector.

Tito Summa Siahaan – Frustrated over the low realization of investment commitment in the exploration of oil and gas sector, the government will tighten its supervision over oil and gas

Papuan civilians around Timika have again been made wary of military provocations that may potentially revive a bloody horizontal conflict, after a former Freeport mine worker's mutilat

John Mcbeth – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold has been scrambling to reassure investors that its controversial diversification into oil and gas does not mean it is facing problems ex

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Tito Summa Siahaan – In the latest blow to the national government's push to tighten mining industry regulations, the Supreme Court announced on Thursday details of a ruling that would

ID/Retno Ayuningtyas – Mining company Freeport Indonesia has agreed to trim its concession area in Timika, Papua, indicating that the government's efforts to renegotiate mining contract

[The following is a speech by ETAN's Chris Lundry at a Freeport protest in Phoenix, AZ, on December 14, 2012.]

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Earlier this year, the government framed its plan to implement a fuel-to-gas energy conversion program as the answer to the country's growing dependency

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan – The village of Mulawarman used to be surrounded by lush tropical trees and wildlife.

Arientha Primanita – Lawmakers on Monday approved an additional subsidized fuel quota of 1.23 million kiloliters this year, adding to the country's subsidy spending by an estimated Rp 6

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Indonesia's Constitutional Court granted greater power to local administrations to designate areas for mining by amending some articles in the 2009 Mining Law, according to a ruling ann

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Timika – The chief of police in Papua has announced that he will be setting up a special team to investigate recent acts of terror in the vicinity of the Freeport copper-and-gold mine w

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – In spite of the adverse impact from the excessive use of fossil fuels, Indonesia would be unlikely to meet the target of conversion to renewable resource

Stephanie March – East Timor is considering walking away from its treaty with the Australian government and Woodside Petroleum over the development of oil and gas fields in the Timor Se

Woodside Petroleum Ltd, along with ConocoPhillips and other resource companies, is facing demands by the East Timor government to pay up to $3 billion in disputed tax payments related t

Peter Cronau and Andrew Fowler – Potentially billions of dollars of tax is being withheld from the government of East Timor by some of the world's richest oil and gas companies operatin

Timika, Papua – Police in Papua's Mimika district will use CCTV recordings to help identify members of a 300-strong mob that attacked a Freeport Indonesia office on Friday.

Jonathan Vit – New Zealand's public pension fund pulled more than $1 million in investment from Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold over allegations of human rights offenses committed by

IHRC is delighted that the NZ Superannuation Fund has decided to pull its investments from the Freeport McMoran mining giant.

A mob of some 300 people on Friday attacked an office of gold mining company Freeport Indonesia in Timika, Papua.

Jakarta – Local businesses strongly criticized the House of Representatives' decision to approve a rise in electricity prices next year, stating that bureaucrats had decided "to murder

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – After weeks of deadlock, the House of Representatives has approved a government proposal to raise electricity rates and the subsidized fuel allocation.

Tito Summa Siahaan – There are two sides to every coin, but according to the chief of Freeport Indonesia, the local unit of US mining giant Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold, the media

Tri Listiyarini & Dion Bisara, Nusa Dua, Bali/Jakarta – A lack of distribution infrastructure is crippling Indonesia's ability to utilize its enormous reserves of gas, Vice Presiden

Rangga Prakoso – Judges at the South Jakarta municipal court on Thursday rejected a civil suit filed by the Indonesian Human Rights Committee For Social Justice (IHCS) against a subsidi

Banjarmasin – The central government has expressed interest in constructing a nuclear power plant in West Kalimantan, citing the island large supplies of uranium and geologic stability,

Rangga Prakoso & Tito Summa Siahaan – Little progress has been made in attempts by the government to renegotiate the mining contract held by Freeport Indonesia in an effort to impro

Tito Summa Siahaan – The government has proposed raising the electricity tariff incrementally every three months starting next year, undeterred after a similar plan ended abruptly this

Yoga Rusmana & Fitri Wulandari – A shortage of electricity in Indonesia may hamper President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's plan to ban all raw-ore exports by 2014 as he seeks to increa

Tito Summa Siahaan – Freeport Indonesia has agreed to raise its royalty payment to the government, according to a statement from a top economic minister on Monday.

Tatyana Shumsky, New York – Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s (FCX) Indonesia operations are approaching "normal" levels after a first quarter marked by labor disruptions, chief

Joe Schneider and James Paton – ConocoPhillips, a US oil and gas producer, challenged a new tax assessment by the government of East Timor that may add billions of dollars to the Asian

The government of the Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor) has started legal action against a number of international oil groups, including Conoco-Phillips, in order to recover taxes th

East Timor is seeking "possibly billions" of dollars from foreign oil companies, including US-owned ConocoPhillips, in unpaid taxes, the government said in a statement received Wednesda

Peter Ker – Academics and other dedicated election observers will not be the only Australians watching today's East Timor election with interest.

The East Timor government believes that the choice of the south coast of the country for the new gas pipeline running from the Greater Sunrise field, which it shares with Australia, wil

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – The National Police say the shooting of a Papua Police Mobile Brigade Officer is not related to any recent shootings that have occurred in the easternmost pr

Ardi Mandiri – Less than a week after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono banned the use of subsidized fuel for government vehicles, public officials in Depok announced plans to change v

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Bayu Marhaenjati & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Officials and analysts criticized on Monday the recently enacted ban on state-owned vehicles using subsidized

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Bayu Marhaenjati – As one of the state institutions subject to a ban on using subsidized fuel for its vehicles as of the start of this month, the Jakarta