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

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Some residents of coastal settlements in East Lampung and Tanggamus regencies say they are at risk from huge waves due to erosion.

Greenpeace on Tuesday warned that a billion-dollar deal between Norway and Indonesia to cut carbon emissions from deforestation is in danger of being hijacked by timber and oil palm com

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Fidelis E Satriastanti, Jakarta – International environmental group Greenpeace is denying accusations that it is waging a foreign-funded campaign aimed at sabotaging the palm oil indust

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Nethy Dharma Somba and Markus Makur, Jayapura/Timika – Environmentalists insisted Thursday that the fatal flash floods in Wasior district in West Papua were caused by environmental degr

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Fidelis E Satriastanti, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta – After denying that the deadly flash floods in Wasior, West Papua, were caused by illegal logging, For

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Fidelis E Satriastanti, Jakarta – Environmental activists have voiced suspicions of forest-clearing permits being issued illegally to palm-oil producers, raising the specter of even mor

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Environmental activists have called on the government to abandon its business-as-usual approach to granting forestry concessions and suggested an action plan to

Jakarta – Local and international experts say the planned forest moratorium sounds good in theory, but remained skeptical of the actual implementation of the US$1 billion policy.

Jakarta – An industry body for sustainable palm oil has made its first public censure of a member, saying Indonesia's Sinar Mas Agro Resources & Technology breached its principles a

Markus Makur, Timika – The Timika church in Mimika, Papua, has voiced its opposition of the province's planned oil palm plantation project, arguing that it would damage the environment

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David Fogarty, Jakarta – As part of $1 billion deal with Norway to fight carbon emissions through a partial deforestation ban, Indonesia plans to initially protect less than half its re

Jakarta – Indonesia's biggest palm oil producer on Friday rejected fresh allegations of illegal forest clearing after foreign auditors suggested it had misrepresented the findings of an

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Three logging company executives and a forestry department official are among 10 people arrested and charged with illegal logging.

Eliswan Azly, Jakarta – Indonesian and Norwegian negotiators will meet in Jakarta this week to discuss the implementation of a bilateral climate deal to combat deforestation in Indonesi

Jakarta – Indonesia's biggest palm oil producer said on Tuesday it had been cleared of allegations made by environmental group Greenpeace that it had destroyed high conservation-value f

Fidelis E Satriastanti, Indonesia – Environmental groups on Thursday urged the government to arrest two businessmen allegedly involved in smuggling rare timber from Papua to China.

Jakarta – Indonesia is allowing powerful businessmen to get rich from smuggling rare timber to China despite its pledges to crack down on illegal logging and preserve its forests, envir

Greenpeace has made fresh allegations that units of Indonesian paper and palm oil giant Sinar Mas are logging in high conservation-value forests including habitats of endangered orangut

Fidelis E Satriastanti, Sanur, Bali – Conservationists from around the world have concluded their meeting in Bali with a declaration of support for Indonesia's limited logging moratoriu

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Jayapura, the Baliem valley and Timika – The next trick is to find a way out of Wamena.

Aubrey Belford – The environmental group Greenpeace has accused one of the world's largest pulp, paper and palm oil companies of aggressively clearing Indonesian rain forests and throwi

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Arti Ekawati – The government on Friday responded to rising international pressure on the country's palm oil producers by implementing a new certification system for environmental susta

A Greenpeace forest campaigner says immediate action is needed to stop the destruction of forests in Papua.

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Papua's Forestry Office says the forested areas in the Indonesian province are shrinking even further.

Greenpeace on Thursday said a promised moratorium on deforestation would have little impact on Indonesia's huge carbon footprint unless it is extended to existing concessions.

Niluksi Koswanage, Yogyakarta – Contrary to previous statements, the government will not revoke existing forestry licenses for palm oil firms as part of a deal with Norway to preserve r

Arti Ekawati, Irvan Tisnabudi & Fidelis E Sastriastanti – As producers of coal and palm oil continued to howl, the government on Tuesday offered reassurances that the development of

Sunanda Creagh – Indonesia will revoke existing forestry licences held by palm oil and timber firms to save natural forests under a $1 billion climate change deal signed with Norway las

Allard, West Aceh – As conflict between villagers and the endangered Sumatran tiger becomes increasingly common, Acehnese authorities have turned to a novel solution, hiring a full-time

Aditya Suharmoko, Oslo – Existing palm oil contracts will be exempt from a two-year moratorium on new concessions to clear the nation's natural forests and peatlands, says President Sus

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Kuala Lumpur – Palm oil producers from Malaysia said on Wednesday they had formed a coalition with their counterparts in Indonesia to counter intensified campaigns that blame the indust

Fidelis E Satriastanti – The illegal logging cases in Riau in 2008 are an indicator of widespread forestry-related crimes in a country where for years an estimated four of five trees we

Arti Ekawati & Nivell Rayda – Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan on Wednesday tried to distance his ministry from the rash of illegal logging cases and the so-called logging mafia, sa