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Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – For the second time this week, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has expressed concern over illegal logging, ordering the presidential taskforce to probe the p

Pingit Aria, Jakarta – A coalition of environmental and rights groups have launched another call for the government to end the expansion of plantation areas in natural forests, and dema

Tom Allard – Indonesia's government plans to create a vast agricultural estate in the restive province of West Papua, sparking fears of environmental destruction and a return of mass mi

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Indonesia would have to clear about 700,000 hectares of forest, an area 10 times the size of Singapore, if it proceeds with plans for a vast agricultural estat

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Arti Ekawati& Reva Sasistiya – After having already opened up protected forests for development, the government is now moving to allow the drilling of geothermal wells in conservati

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Arti Ekawati & Fidelis E Satriastanti – Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan on Tuesday defended a presidential decision to open protected forests to development, saying only undergroun

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed a decree to allow mining, power plants and other projects deemed strategically important to take place in protected forests.

Illegal loggers in Lampung have extended their grab beyond the Bukit Barisan Selatan and Way Kambas national parks and are now pilfering from reforestation areas managed under community

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A coalition of some of the country's well-known NGOs has called on the Corruption Eradication Commission to investigate cases of alleged corruption in the forestry sector.

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Nivell Rayda – Corruption was the root cause of the country's rapid pace of deforestation, threatening to hamper the government's effort to cut at least 26 percent of Indonesia's carbon

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The Indonesian military is deeply involved in the trade in illegally felled timber that is destroying vast tracts of pristine forest and contributing to global warming, researchers said

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang – The pace of deforestation in Java from 2007 to 2010 has reached 10,000 hectares and has become a serious threat to people and protected wildlife on the is

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Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – The presence of mobile sawmills around Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (TNBBS) in West Lampung, Lampung province, poses a serious threat to the par

Ulma Haryanto & Arti Ekawati – Save the environment or lose up to $7 billion a year in revenue – as well as tens of thousands of jobs – from the forestry sector?

Indonesia will allow some infrastructure projects deemed in the public interest such as toll roads and geothermal energy plants to operate in protected forests, the chief economics mini

Belinda Lopez, Copenhagen – Indonesian delegates on Wednesday night promoted the country's palm oil industry as sustainable at the UN climate talks, in the wake of a recently-published

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Regional autonomy in Papua poses a threat to forests in the province because the infrastructure development following autonomy would exploit forested area

What was supposed to be a key environmental speech from West Kalimantan Governor Cornelis in the increasingly deforested district of Kubu Raya, turned to embarrassment on Thursday when

West Papua contains some of the last great tracts of undisturbed rain forest in the Asia-Pacific region.

Arwa Damon – Driving through Indonesia's central Sumatra, it appears that all life on earth has been obliterated, like a scene from some apocalyptic movie.

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Residents of Teluk Meranti in Riau are seeking the expulsion of forestry industry companies operating in the district, claiming the companies have brought nothi

Riyadi Suparno and Nani Afrida, Nusa Dua, Bali – Despite environmental concerns, Indonesia plans to continue the expansion of its much-contested oil palm plantations to cover a total ar

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Budi Otmansyah – Illegal loggers have in the past two years cleared as much as 3,000 hectares of forest around the Bukit Tiga Puluh National Park in Indragiri Hulu district, Riau, local

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Environmental nongovernmental organizations released a report on Monday accusing Australia of using a bilateral forestry project in Kalimantan to avoid reducing

Adam Gartrell – Australia and other countries should avoid carbon trading with Indonesia unless it cracks down on widespread corruption in its forest industry, a new report warns.

Widespread corruption in the forest industry is the dirty secret no one wants to talk about.

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Environmental activists shut down four cranes at a port run by one of Asia's biggest pulp and paper groups on Indonesia's Sumatra island, but overall operations were not hit, the compan

Jakarta - Hundreds of Greenpeace activists rallied Saturday in support of a commitment by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by defo

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Jayapura – Logging and agribusiness is threatening environmental destruction in Indonesia's Papua region, one of the world's last vast wildernesses, local leaders said on Thursday.

The equivalent of about 10,000 football fields of forest have been lost each year for the past five years in Aceh's Leuser ecosystem due to illegal logging and the clearing of land for

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Wild animal attacks in Aceh, particularly by elephants and Sumatran tigers, are highlighting the worsening conflict between wildlife and humans owing to the i

Hotli Simanjuntak and Jon Afrizal, Banda Aceh, Jambi – Deforestation in Aceh has continued to worsen despite the signing of a logging moratorium that prohibits anyone from felling fores

Budi Otmansyah – Greenpeace activists will live in the heart of the Kampar forest area in Riau for several weeks to draw attention to the impact of deforestation on climate change.

Putri Prameshwari – Scores of flights to and from Sumatra had been delayed or cancelled as thick haze still covered parts of the island, forcing airports to suspend operations, airline

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Muhammad Cohen, Bali – This year's haze season is in full swing across Kalimantan and residents of Indonesia's portion of Borneo are set for the worst.

Gillian Murdoch, Aceh – For decades, the roar of the chainsaw has meant one thing in the country's national parks: illegal loggers ripping down the rainforest.