Nandito Putra, Jakarta – Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Bahlil Lahadalia mentioned the International Monetary Fund (IMF) policy as one of the main causes of the decline in Ind

Defara Dhanya, Bali – The Ministry of Environment is handling the reports against nickel mines operating in Raja Ampat regency, according to the ministry secretary, Rosa Vivien Ratnawat

Los Angeles – The owners of the multi-billion-dollar Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park (IWIP) in eastern Indonesia and nearby nickel mining projects are violating the rights of local c

Rabul Sawal, East Halmahera, Indonesia – Police in Indonesia's North Maluku province arrested 27 people and charged 11 of them with weapons offenses and commercial obstruction in late M

James Pearson – Estrella Resources has made a landmark discovery in its maiden exploration program in Timor-Leste, intersecting a thick 6.45-metre zone of massive manganese oxides just

Igor Oneill, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia activists, alongside four young West Papuans from the Raja Ampat archipelago, staged a peaceful protest today to expose the devastating envir

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has revoked the environmental permit of a controversial zinc-and-lead mine being developed in a, earthquake-prone zone on the isl

Irsyan Hasyim, Jakarta – Indonesian Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq said the carbon market in the energy sector, launched since January 20, 2025, has not attracted many buyers

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesia has backtracked on pledges it had made to stop building new coal-fired power stations – other than those it had already previously committed t

Nandito Putra, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia has criticized the recently introduced Electricity Supply Business Plan (RUPTL) 2025-2034 shared by the government.

Lelilef Sawai, Indonesia – Sitting deep in east Indonesia's lush jungle, Bokum, one of the country's last isolated hunter-gatherers, has a simple message for the nickel miners threateni

Budhy Nurgianto, Halmahera – Dozens of blood samples from workers at the Weda Bay Nickel Industrial Park, and the residents around the nickel industrial area located in Weda, Central Ha

Han Revanda, Jakarta – Indonesia's Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Bahlil Lahadalia, stated that European countries still use electricity generated from fossil energy such as

Addin Anugrah Siwi, Jakarta – Despite Indonesia's commitment to a cleaner energy future, efforts to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy remain slow and largely symbolic, an

Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – The government is set to reintroduce electricity bill discounts for low-power households starting June 5, as part of a broader stimulus package aimed at b

Ashoka Mukpo – Indonesia's environment ministry plans to curb deforestation and push for environmental rehabilitation in response to industrial nickel mining on Kabaena Island, where se

Nandito Putra, Jakarta – The Association of Indonesian Energy, Mineral, and Coal Suppliers (Aspebindo) is confident that the demand for Indonesian coal will improve despite facing globa

Jakarta – Bahlil Lahadalia has every right to issue an energy transition road map in the electricity sector.

Ashoka Mukpo, Jakarta – Indonesia's push to meet its ambitious biofuel targets by expanding oil palm plantations could cost the country billions in environmental damage and social confl

Bambang Ismoyo, Jakarta – Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia dismissed claims that Shell's sale of its entire fuel retail network in Indonesia reflects a worsening i

Herman, Jakarta – Global energy giant Shell plc has announced the sale of its entire fuel retail network in Indonesia to a joint venture between Citadel Pacific Limited and Indonesia's

Antara, Jakarta – Energy Minister Bahlil Lahadalia urged the state-run energy firm Pertamina to import American fuel regardless of the logistical challenges, as Jakarta's tariff negotia

Addin Anugrah Siwi, Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto on Wednesday issued a stern ultimatum to government officials and regulators, demanding an overhaul of

Wahyu Chandra – Hundreds of protesters, including young and Indigenous peoples from three coastal villages, have demanded the closure of sand dredging in Indonesia's West Sulawesi over

Iim Halimatusa'diyah – It is not clear that some of Indonesia's renewable energy projects are designed with the people in mind.

Yovanda Noni, Jakarta – A severe shortage of non-subsidized fuels, specifically Pertamax and Pertamax Turbo, has hit several public gas stations (SPBUs) in Balikpapan since Sunday, May

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – As Indonesia, one of the world's biggest polluters, plans to retire its fleet of coal-fired power plants to tackle climate change, one critical question is

Melynda Dwi Puspita, Jakarta – The Secretary General of the Indonesia's Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration, Taufik Madjid, mentioned that ther

Nadja Skopljak – Switzerland-based StreamTec Solutions has signed a cooperation agreement with Timor-Leste's national oil & gas company Timor Gas & Petroleo, E.P.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's first road map for its energy transition, focusing on phasing out coal, is riddled with loopholes that will make it difficult for the country t

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – State electricity company PT PLN (Persero) has set a target to develop 20.9 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy power plants by 2030, in line with the 2021-2

Jakarta – The Indonesian government plans to develop 300,000 hectares of sugar palm plantations as part of a national strategy to reduce reliance on fossil fuel imports by strengthening

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia is preparing to reduce its reliance on fuel imports from Singapore, citing high prices and geopolitical concerns, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahli

Indonesia, West Papua – On 11 April 2025, farmers in Biha Village, Makimi District, Nabire Regency, Papua Tengah Province, raised urgent complaints concerning severe environmental degra

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Experts have lambasted Indonesia's heavy push toward natural gas, saying it risks locking the country into fossil fuel dependency under the guise of clean

Vedro Imanuel Girsang, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto wants Indonesia to achieve energy self-sufficiency.

Annisa Lisya Bazlina, Jakarta – The Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) and the French Bureau of Geological and Mining Research (BRGM) collaborate with the Indonesian Ministry of En

Jakarta – Power has started returning in most areas affected by an outage in Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Friday, officials said, and efforts were continuing to fully restore se

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A deadly landslide in an Indonesian industrial park has reignited concerns over poor safety and environmental standards in the country's booming nickel sec

Jakarta – The Indonesian government is holding firm to its ambitious goal of boosting domestic oil production to 1 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2030, despite a steady decline in out

Tom Levitt – One of Indonesia's largest nickel-mining companies, which supplies a mineral critical to the global electric car industry, did not tell the public that local drinking water

Bali, Indonesia – Indonesia's government on Wednesday defended the country's plan to hike mineral royalties, arguing the policy that has attracted widespread criticism from industry wil

Ebed de Rosary, Ende, Indonesia – The governor of one Indonesia's poorest provinces said it would pause development of new geothermal energy projects on the island of Flores, following

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – As much of the world shutters coal power plants and shelves new proposals, Indonesia is bucking the trend – adding the third-highest volume of coal capacit

Nandito Putra, Jakarta – The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Bahlil Lahadalia, mentioned that Indonesia is set to utilize nuclear power plants by 2030, as laid out in the Powe

Indonesia, West Papua – Illegal mining operations have been discovered in Ajuda Village at the border of Intan Jaya Regency in Central Papua Province (Papua Tengah) with Waropen Regency

Rangga Prakoso, Jakarta – Copper mining giant Amman Mineral Internasional has officially commenced operations at its newly built smelter in West Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara, marking a m

Reiner Brabar, Sorong – Papuan students in several major cities in Indonesia, such as Bandung, Jember, Malang, Bali, Lombok and several cities in Papua, held peaceful demonstrations on

James Pearson – Estrella Resources is about to make history in Timor-Leste with the arrival of the nation's first mineral exploration rig.

Dr. Sameer Kumar – Indonesia sits atop the world's biggest nickel reserves – a metal essential for electric vehicle (EV) batteries and the renewable energy transition.