Jakarta – Animal protection group ProFauna Indonesia warns that private plantations are destroying the habitats of endangered species like tigers and elephants.

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – A lack of law enforcement is the main factor in Indonesia's failure to stop slash-and-burn clearing of forests, which causes haze, analysts said on Sunday.

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Jakarta – The Coalition of Anti-Plantation Mafia in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, allege corruption in oil palm plantations belonging to five companies in Sambas and Bengkayang.

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A group of NGO has demanded more clarity from the Forestry Ministry on its REDD+ programs after it accepted US$3.6 million in grants from the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Faci

Jakarta – The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) said on Wednesday that 71.43 percent of all illegal loggers forced to stand trial were acquitted of all charges, and 14.29 percent were se

Jakarta – Citing a Greenpeace study, the Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) said on Wednesday that up to 88 percent of the logging activities in Indonesia were illegal.

Pekanbaru, Riau – Hot spots have reappeared in Riau province over the last few days with thick haze blanketing Rokan Hilir regency and Dumai mayoralty, disrupting local residents' daily

Jakarta – A freshly inked two-year forest moratorium was breached on its first day as a plantation company burned carbon-rich peatlands on Borneo island, an investigation by an environm

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The National Police said Saturday the force could continue investigating 14 timber companies operating in Riau following protests from civil society and the

Greenpeace on Wednesday accused Mattel, the US maker of Barbie dolls, of contributing to the wanton destruction of carbon-rich Indonesian forests and habitats of endangered species like

Jack Hewson, Bentian Besar, East Kalimantan – At a mine-site near Sangatta in East Kalimantan, a titanic crater yawns out of the ground, its nadir filled with brown slurry.

Stephen Schaber – The Indonesian government is facilitating the destruction of protected forests, according to a cable news report aired on Tuesday.

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Surabaya – Mangrove conservation forests along the east coast of Surabaya (Pamurbaya) face threats not only from indiscriminate land clearing for fish or shrimp po

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Fidelis E Satriastanti – Sighs of relief from activists on Thursday that a long-awaited two-year moratorium on forest clearance permits had finally been signed were drowned out on Frida

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Olivia Rondonuwu & Michael Taylor – Indonesia revealed a long list of exemptions on Friday to a two-year moratorium on new permits to clear forest, a concession to the hard-lobbying

Zubaidah Nazeer & Carolyn Hong – The haze is back, with parts of Malaysia and Indonesia blanketed in choking smoke; Singapore could be affected soon too.

Kuala Lumpur – Haze caused by fires burning in Indonesia blanketed parts of Malaysia on Thursday, sending air pollution at its largest port up to unhealthy levels.

Jakarta, Indonesia – Video cameras captured 12 critically endangered Sumatran tigers, including mothers with their cubs, in Indonesian forests slated to be cut down, wildlife activists

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – "Non-procedural" forest use in three provinces of Kalimantan has cost the state Rp 311.4 trillion (US$36.38 billion) in losses, according to a government report

The Ministry of Forestry says illegal logging, land clearance, forest fires and mining has devastated Indonesian Borneo and cost the country an estimated Rp 311.4 trillion ($36.4 billio

Agus Maryono, Cilacap – Local policies related to the authority over forestry management on the island of Nusakambangan have been blamed for damage to thousands of hectares of forest ar

Zubaidah Nazeer – Indonesia is losing forest area about four times the size of Jakarta as politicians continue to bicker over a moratorium on cutting down trees.

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – Pinang Kampai Airport in Dumai, Riau, was closed on Monday after visibility was severely limited by nearby forest fires driven by high temperatures.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Pidie, Aceh – Uncontrolled illegal logging has been blamed for a flash flood in Tangse district, Pidie regency, Aceh, on Thursday evening.

Jakarta – Local administrations are preventing community forestry projects from being enacted and are instead awarding access to forests to businesses, a study reveals.

Bandar Lampung – A new satellite image shows that about 96 percent of total mangrove forests in Lampung have disappeared, a mangrove conservation working group from Lampung Province say

Zubaidah Nazeer – Imagine 400 football fields of trees disappearing during the duration of a soccer match.

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Apriadi Gunawan and Sri Wahyuni, Medan/Yogyakarta – Conservationist have voiced fears that orangutans in Sumatra are facing extinction due to habitat destruction, while some have allege

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Nurfika Osman & AFP – Environmentalists have demanded that the government crack down on mining and plantation firms operating illegally in the country, following a startling officia

Indonesia admitted on Tuesday that hundreds of mine and plantation companies are operating illegally in Central Kalimantan, and promised to beef up law enforcement to protect forests an

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – The forestry minister on Monday warned some logging companies that they needed to stop harvesting trees from natural woodlands immediately.

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Jakarta – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday ordered provincial governors to act more firmly against mining and plantation firms which continue to destroy forests i

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Oil palm plantations and mining companies were the biggest polluters in the country last year, an environmental group said.

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – Indonesia's much-hyped promise to enact a moratorium on new logging concessions from Jan.

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Nana Rukmana, Cirebon, West Java – Fishermen and conservationists have expressed outrage at the widespread damage to ecosystems on the northern coast of Cirebon, blaming the damage on i