Eman Riberu, Merauke, Indonesia – A priest in Merauke Archdiocese in Papua has appealed to Indonesian President Joko Widodo, urging him to halt the destruction of pristine forests by a palm plantat

Rizal Harahap and Jon Afrizal, Pekanbaru/Jambi/Jakarta – As haze caused by forest and land fires thickens in Riau, a local administration has given holidays to school students.

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – It is happening again: Indonesia's inability to control forest fires has left the residents of its northern neighbor covered in smoke, an annual occurrence that has often

Air pollution in Singapore has risen to the "unhealthy" level as acrid smoke drifted over the island from fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island, the city-state's National Environment Agency (NEA) sai

Severianus Endi, Pontianak – Haze is causing concern for people in West Kalimantan where fires have razed land and forests for the past two weeks.

Bambang Nurbianto, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia – The Indonesian government, plantation companies and communities need to take immediate action to prevent forest fires as hot spots have started to em

Rizal Harahap, Jon Afrizal and Hans Nicholas Jong, Pekanbaru/Jambi/Jakarta –Fire is raging through more areas in Sumatra and Kalimantan as the dry season has worsened in the regions.

Pontianak – West Kalimantan Police will not prosecute a company and three individuals allegedly involved in four cases of land and forest fires in 2015, citing a lack of evidence.

Stephanie Boltje – A small group of Indonesian tour guides are buying up forest lands in a bid to protect wildlife, including sun bears and orangutans, in the world's top palm oil-producing country

Rizal Harahap – Riau Police reportedly have dropped investigations into 11 companies allegedly involved in forest fires in 2015, underlining the poor law enforcement of last year's catastrophe that

Jakarta – The Indonesian space agency has recorded an increase in the number of forest fire hotspots ahead of the Idul Fitri holidays.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government is gearing up to take some of the alleged perpetrators of last year's massive forest fires to court for the first time.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Despite wreaking environmental havoc and causing more than US$16 billion in economic losses, hundreds of companies behind last year's massive peatland and forest fires

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – An area of forest the size of eight soccer fields is lost every hour in Jambi, Sumatra, leaving forests in the province in a critical condition, according to a conservation org

Hannah Gould – One of the world's largest producers of palm oil has drained and planted on areas of peatland supposed to be protected by Indonesian law, claims a new report from Greenpeace, with le

Angel L Martinez Cantera in Jambi, Sumatra – "Our main goal is to preserve the forest according to the customary traditions of our people.

Indonesia has rejected applications from scores of companies for new palm oil operations, an official said on Wednesday, as it cracks down on an industry whose expansion has been blamed for fuellin

Medan – Rampant illegal logging in the upstream areas of protected forests around Mount Sibayak, Karo regency, North Sumatra, is believed to be the cause of a flash flood that hit the Dua Warna Wat

Indonesia is pushing to ban new palm oil operations after last year's haze-belching forest fires were partly blamed on the industry's expansion, but producers are warning the move could hit the eco

Thousands of hotspots have been detected by the government this year, an early warning sign of the rampant forest fires which have in the past caused massive losses in Sumatra and Kalimantan.

Stephen Wright – A landmark commitment by one of the world's largest producers of tissue and paper to stop cutting down Indonesia's prized tropical forests is under renewed scrutiny as the company

Rizal Harahap and Severianus Endi – The general public were warned about the possibility of massive forest and land fires on Monday, after fires ravaged a total 700 ha in Meranti Islands regency, R

Michael Kodas, Kenyala, Indonesia – The orange-furred toddler survived one of the most destructive wildfires on record, but with a plastic tube leashing her neck to the porch of a small

Hans Nicholas Jong – The government is campaigning against a "zero deforestation" pledge (IPOP) signed by leading palm oil producers in Indonesia.

Joe Cochrane – Katty, a docile, orange-haired preschooler, fell from a tree with a thump.

Jakarta – As forest fires raged like never before across Indonesia last year, President Joko Widodo announced he was setting up a special agency to tackle the annual scourge that shrouds parts of S

Karl Mathiesen – Indonesia's palm oil, mining and logging industries are enmeshed in a cat's cradle of overlapping land claims and corruption that are hampering attempts to stop deforestation and f

Ben Child – The Indonesian government has threatened to deport Leonardo DiCaprio after the Oscar-winning actor and film-maker made critical statements about the country's palm oil industry during a

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The central government has instructed local governments to intensify their peatland restoration programs, but has not allocated funds from the state budget, leaving them

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – A group of citizens in Riau have filed a lawsuit against the central government with the Pekanbaru District Court, demanding serious action be taken against the forest an

Anton Hermansyah – The Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) plans to offer asset swaps to local communities using peatland for plantation purposes in an effort to restore two million hectares of peatl

Haeril Halim, Syofiardi Bachyul Jb and Rizal Harahap, Jakarta/Padang/Pekanbaru – The Home Ministry has ordered local administrations in Kalimantan and Sumatra to launch preventive measures to conta

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government is planning to reform its non-tax state revenue (PNBP) system in the forestry sector following a finding that corruption in the sector is causing trilli

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia is at risk of missing the opportunity to become the first country in the world to achieve full implementation of its timber legality system, called SVLK, as

More details have emerged about the visit to West Papua by the US Ambassador to Indonesia, including American concern about destruction of rainforest in the region.

Elizabeth Matsangou – As the world's most commonly traded vegetable oil, palm oil is a key economic driver for Indonesia.

Jakarta – The government is preparing to appeal a Palembang District Court verdict declaring that the operations of pulp producer PT Bumi Mekar Hijau (PT BMH) did not cause any environmental damage

National – The government has expressed its desire to file an appeal to a higher court following its loss at the Palembang District Court in relation to a forest fire case against PT Bu

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has lost a Rp 7.8 trillion ($565 million) lawsuit brought against a pulp and paper company accused of setting fires that razed 20,000 hectares of lan

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The government will have to revoke a freeze on operating permits for more than 900,000 hectares of industrial forest or the local pulp and paper industry will lo

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's timber legality system has not been able to stop pulp and paper giants from using illegally sourced timber, as the system is filled with loopho

Indonesia has announced it is punishing more than 20 companies for starting deadly forest fires that killed 19 people.

Indonesia's economy took a $16bn hit this year from forest fires that cloaked south-east Asia in haze, more than double the sum spent on rebuilding Aceh after the 2004 tsunami, accordin

Greenpeace says the impact of rampant forest and peatland fires in Indonesia's Papua region is having a devastating effect on West Papuan society.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Provided with a limited allocation from the state budget, the government may only have the capacity to restore less than 5 percent of the total peatland ar

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – For years, forest fires and the ensuing haze have been reoccurring problems in Indonesia.

Jonathan Vit, Jakarta) – Progress in the fight against global warming may hinge on the future of one tiny fruit in Southeast Asia.

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – The Jambi Police say they have named officials from several corporations as suspects in the peatland and forest fires that spread a choking haze across the province

Jakarta – Indonesia will present it's ideas on how to prevent forest fires and rehabilitate damaged peatland as part of climate change mitigation efforts at the upcoming UN climate chan

Indonesia is under pressure to properly enforce sweeping land-management reforms to improve its record on devastating wildfires with less than a week to crucial climate talks in Paris.