Rebecca Ratcliffe – The mother's hands were peeling from walking on the torched ground. Her eight-month-old baby, which clung to her side, was dehydrated and thin.

Maretha Uli, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has turned to experts for solutions to prevent recurring forest and peatland fires and expressed his respect for science, after his rec

Agencies, Jakarta – Wildfires that tore through Kalimantan's vast tropical forests have piled pressure on critically endangered Bornean orangutans, the International Union for Conservat

Manokwari, Jubi – Forest and land fires and drought are affecting Fakfak Regency in West Papua, disrupting school activities in Bomberai District and damaging farmers' crops in Tomage D

Agencies, Jakarta – More than 170,000 respiratory cases were recorded in regions affected by haze in Indonesia, a health ministry official said Tuesday, as the country battles for weeks

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia's Ministry of Health recorded 174,694 cases of acute respiratory infections (ARI) in areas affected by forest and land fires between August 18 and September

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – As fires continue to engulf large swaths of forest in Indonesian Borneo, orangutans have increasingly fewer places to flee, with fires either surrounding t

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has revoked the forestry permits of five companies managing more than 92,000 hectares of concessions across Kalimantan after fires wer

Zacharias Wuragil, Jakarta – Air quality measurements by Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) show the worsening conditions faced by residents in several

Agencies, Jakarta – Dozens of planes and thousands of personnel fighting huge forest fires in Indonesia are struggling to contain them, authorities said Monday, while neighboring Malays

Kate Lamb – For months, parts of Indonesia's Borneo and Sumatra islands have been ablaze.

Amelia Rahima Sari, Jakarta – A civil society coalition in West Kalimantan has filed a class-action lawsuit against the government over ongoing forest and land fires.

Agencies, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto said on Friday that he would receive assistance from Malaysia to help contain forest and land fires that have been raging for weeks.

Gembong Hanung, Jakarta – A surge in wildfires across Sumatra is putting critically endangered Sumatran elephants at greater risk of extinction, with hundreds of thousands of hectares o

Fia Hamid-Walker – On 31 August 2026, President Prabowo Subianto issued Presidential Instruction (Instruksi Presiden, Inpres) 11 of 2026 to strengthen enforcement of the ban on slash-an

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Conservationists are racing to rescue orangutans from a fire-ravaged peat-swamp forest inside an RSPO-certified oil palm concession in West Kalimantan, wit

Yenni Kwok, Kuala Lumpur – Video editor Mohamad Haazim has lost count of how many times he refreshes Malaysia's Air Pollutant Index (API) website every day to check air quality in the c

Irma puts on her heavy rubber boots as she prepares for a volunteer firefighting shift in her village of Sungai Putri, on the Indonesian side of Borneo island.

Raya Aulia Jenar, Jakarta – Human and Nature for a Sustainable Indonesia (Madani Berkelanjutan) Foundation evaluates forest fires as a real risk that could disrupt the sustainability of

Manokwari, Jubi – Two palm oil companies involved in National Strategic Projects (PSN), Genting Oil Kasuri Pte.

Penajam Paser, Indonesia – Indonesia's escalating wildfire crisis has reached the outskirts of Nusantara, the new capital city under construction as the world's fourth-most-populous cou

Yvette Tanamal, Jakarta – Spreading forest and peatland fires in Indonesia have caused people to fall sick, as haze from hundreds of thousands of burned lands across the country worsen

President Prabowo Subianto attended the 2026 BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India, on September 12-13 with a message of resilience, sustainability and inclusive global growth.

What is the point of building food security if the way to achieve it makes a region increasingly vulnerable to disaster?

Banjarmasin, Indonesia – Siti Sarah slept in fits and starts through August as the fires broke out around her village and surrounding peatlands. One fire on Aug.

Banjarmasin, Indonesia – As a strengthening El Nino fuels wildfires across much of Indonesia, NGO and government conservationists are at work in forests here trying to save an in

Jakarta – Forest and land fires throughout 2026 have once again become a source of large-scale emissions. WALHI has calculated the emissions resulting from these fires.

Zhulfakar, Jakarta – About 735 hectares of peatland remain affected by forest and land fires in six Indonesian provinces, with authorities warning that fires can reignite underground ev

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – The police have not yet identified any corporate suspects in handling the land and forest fire cases.

Delfi Neski, Ria Fortuna Wijaya, Jakarta – Indonesia's worsening peatland fires may be more difficult to track than satellite hotspot data suggests, as some fires smolder underground or

Gembong Hanung, Jakarta – Nearly a quarter of forest and peatland areas burned across Indonesia are located inside business concessions with some having been repeatedly engulfed in fire

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia's top Muslim organization, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), has called on Muslims across the country to perform Shalat Istisqa, a prayer traditionally off

Agencies, Kuching, Malaysia – Malaysia's Sarawak state declared an emergency in the district of Serian on Friday, after thick haze caused by forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia pushe

Jakarta – Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific (FoE APAC) condemns the recurring transboundary haze crisis in Southeast Asia, as smoke from forest and land fires currently burning in Indon

Gembong Hanung, Jakarta – Toxic haze from forest and land fires in Indonesia have drifted further into neighboring countries as far as the Philippines and triggered public health alerts

Addin Anugrah Siwi, Jakarta – Indonesia's forest and land fires could inflict up to Rp 123.1 trillion ($6.93 billion) in economic and health losses from January to August 2026, an estim

Muhammad Aulia Rahman, Jakarta – Most forest and land fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra were almost certainly deliberately set by individuals or companies for various purposes, including

Jayapura, Jubi – The Indonesian environmental organisation Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia (WALHI) Papua has compiled data on forest and land fires across Papua between 2023 and 2026.

Merauke, Jubi – Forest and land fires across parts of Indonesia are not simply a fire-related problem but a reflection of poor forest governance, according to the #ResetKehutanan coalit

Febrianto Adi Saputro, Bilal Ramadhan, Jakarta – The Forestry Reset Coalition is urging the government and the House of Representatives (DPR) to comprehensively revise the Forestry Law

Fahri Ali, Jakarta – Indonesia's retail sector has urged the government to ease import restrictions and improve product availability, saying fewer policy constraints could unlock strong

Responding to the recent wildfires in the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan that have sent haze to neighbouring Malaysia, Amnesty International Indonesia's executive director Usman Hami

Shreya Dasgupta – Indonesian authorities have charged 72 individuals with intentionally igniting forest fires across five provinces on the island of Borneo and four on Sumatra.

Natasha May – Suwadi can barely see five metres in front of him when he steps outside his home in Indonesian Borneo. Each breath, he says, feels "like smoking a cigarette".

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry has imposed sanctions on six companies holding Forest Utilization Business Licenses (PBPH) following monitoring results that revealed

Anwar Siswadi, Jakarta – The forest and land fires in West Java, Indonesia, have affected nearly 200 hectares so far this year.

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) detected 473 hotspots in South Kalimantan on Tuesday, spread across 11 regencies and cities, with

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A new study of palm oil concessions linked to Indonesian supply chains finds no evidence that corporate zero-deforestation commitments have led to addition

Hariz Baharudin, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has ordered more troops, helicopters and firefighting equipment to Kalimantan as the government moves to contain worseni

Manokwari, Jubi – West Papua's provincial and district governments have been urged to take immediate action over forest and land fires reported across several parts of the province.