Kuala Lumpur – Haze caused by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia blanketed parts of Malaysia including the capital on Saturday, causing air pollution to hit unhealthy levels.

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Michael Bachelard – In 2007, young Australian entrepreneur Dorjee Sun began a mission to save the world.

The Indonesian government reiterated its claim on Thursday that the country's deforestation rate has drastically declined over the past two years, defying critics and environmental acti

Illegal forest clearing in Kalimantan potentially cost the state Rp 321 trillion ($34.6 billion) in losses last year, largely because law enforcement efforts on the ground remain weak,

Alexandra Di Stefano Pironti – Unless the rapid deforestation in one of the world's most richly-forested countries is controlled, Indonesians may one day wonder, "where are all the flow

Jakarta – Indonesia's progress in reforming its forestry sector will not be sufficient to meet its pledge to reduce carbon emissions by 26 percent by 2020, Norway's environment minister

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan – One of the largest tracts of protected forest in Indonesia has been decimated by illegal loggers and miners to the extent

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – The fast rate of deforestation in East Kalimantan over the last few years has made it the country's third largest carbon emitting

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A coalition of green groups in Indonesia on Thursday criticized a moratorium on deforestation as "weak," saying the year-long ban still excludes large tracts of the country's carbon-ric

Joanna M. Foster – Indonesia ranks right behind the United States and China in the lineup of the world's top 10 greenhouse gas emitters.

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – Primary forest cover in East Kalimantan has been depleted from 19 million hectares in the 1960s to just 4 million hectares today due to legislatio

Earth Day commemorations in Indonesia were low-key, but those who marked the day were quick to warn of the worsening environmental situation.

With no more than 80 Borneo pygmy elephants left in Indonesia, the massive clearing of forests to make way for palm oil plantations poses a major threat to the survival of the species,

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The Gunung Leuser National Park (TNGL) Center said that provincial legislative councillors and private companies were believed to be involved in illegal forest

Rizky Amelia – Activists in the Sumatran province of Riau on Sunday called on the antigraft body to go after corporations that engaged in corruption in the forestry sector.

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – The obscure legal framework governing the management of the country's forests has given rise to hundreds of sometimes deadly conf

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – Elephants are increasingly coming into conflict with humans in the East Kalimantan district of Nunukan as more of the forest is cleared away for p

Michael Bachelard, Banda Aceh – The man who signed the permit allowing 1600 hectares of carbon-rich peat forest and orang-utan habitat to be razed and turned into a palm oil plantation

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Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – As many as 1.6 million of Berau's 1.9 million hectares of forest has been damaged, including protected-forest areas, according to

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Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – Environmental activists have objected to plans to use Kayan Mentarang National Park as a pilot project for offsetting carbon emis

Chloe Booker, Jakarta – Local government officials may have accepted bribes from logging, mining and companies in exchange for permission to clear forests, a top official has said.

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Activists were pessimistic that the government plan to allocate 45 percent of forests in Kalimantan as "the lungs of the world" would work, as mining act

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Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Aceh may soon lose part of its forests with the granting of a concession for commercial use to a private company by Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf, a decisi

Fakhrurradzie Gade, Aceh – The man known as Indonesia's "green governor" chases the roar of illegal chainsaws through plush jungles in his own Jeep.

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Before moving forward with a bill on illegal logging, the government and the House of Representatives should focus on a revision of the Forestry Law, a legal ex

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – An Acehnese civil society group says it has reported Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf to the National Police for issuing a business licence to a company to convert 1,6

Farouk Arnaz – Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan.

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – Life was idyllic in the village of Muara Tae, in East Kalimantan's West Kutai district – before palm oil companies moved in, Petrus Asuy says.

Jakarta – The government says that a global risk analysis and mapping company has compiled a "misleading" report claiming that the rate of deforestation in Indonesia was one of the wors

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – A leading environmental group is suing Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf for allegedly approving a permit for an palm oil plantation inside a protected peat forest.

Singapore – Nigeria, Indonesia and North Korea have the world's highest rates of deforestation while China and the United States, the top two greenhouse gas polluters, have the lowest,

Bruce Gale – It was a Saturday morning and five-year-old Fitria Judin was playing with her two older sisters outside their house on a plantation in Bengkulu's Kepahiang regency.

Jakarta – The plan to convert tea plantations in North Sumatra to palm oil plantations could be detrimental to local economies and the environment, a local councilor said.

David Fogarty, Singapore – A two-year ban on new licenses to clear peatlands and primary forests in Indonesia risks being undermined by the small area protected by the scheme and a host

Jakarta – Mining activities in the vicinity of protected forest areas should be watched carefully as industries frequently neglected environmental conservation, an NGO warns.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Indonesian Antigraft Society (MAKI) and legislators have questioned the recent acquittal by the Buntok District Court in Central Kalimantan of a Thai i

Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever has resumed palm oil purchases from Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology (SMART) after the planter adopted new green policies, the Indonesia

Jayapura – With the forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan continually shrinking, Papua's timber fields now face a grave threat, a Greenpeace campaigner for the far-flung eastern province sa

Semarang, Central Java – Fires have so far razed 200 hectares of forest area during the current dry season in Central Java, a provincial forestry official said.

Jakarta – Indonesia will delay the implementation of a regulation on industrial forests that would have allowed planters, especially those growing palm oil, to cultivate areas reserved

Jakarta – A corruption watchdog is urging the nation's antigraft agency to investigate corruption allegations against the forestry industry in Kalimatan, which the group says cost the s

Bengkulu – The Bengkulu chapter of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) rejected a recent government ruling to classify oil palm as a forestry plant as it would expand plant

Singapore – Singapore has offered to send aircraft to help Indonesia put out forest fires that threaten to cast a pall over the city-state's showcase Formula One night race next week, l

Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia has complained to Indonesia about land-clearing fires in the neighboring country that have led to a blanket of pollution and poor air quality.

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – Forest fires continued to spread in South Sumatra on Friday, while nearly 900 hot spots were reported in several regencies in the province.