Jakarta – The government has failed to reach its 2007 forest rehabilitation target due to financial issues and poor coordination, said a senior forestry ministry official.

Jakarta – Indonesia has proposed that eight countries home to some 80 percent of the world's tropical rainforests join diplomatic ranks amid rising climate change concerns, a senior off

Jakarta – The Indonesian government's programs to tackle deforestation are getting a much needed injection of funds, with several developed countries committing to providing financial s

Jayapura – Papua is home to 10 percent of the world's remaining Intact Forest Landscape, but 2 percent of that is at risk of forest conversion, according to an NGO.

Jakarta – Government officials, police and observers are calling for effective coordination among the police, Forestry Ministry and related departments to fight illegal logging.

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Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, Jakarta – The government has been urged to stop deforestation in order to protect the rapidly decreasing orangutan population on the island of Kalimantan.

Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has accused the government of encouraging deforestation by allowing eight industrial timber plantati

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The trial of an illegal logging suspect was delayed Wednesday after a group of people disrupted court proceedings at Medan District Court in North Sumatra.

Jakarta Post – Legal experts are recommending the government use the anti-corruption law, not forestry laws, to try illegal logging suspects.

Indra Shalihin, Jakarta – Stinging criticism by activists from the Indonesian Environmental Forum (Walhi) who accused Forestry Minister MS Kaban of being the architect behind the destru

Indra Shalihin, Jakarta – Because environmental destruction, humanity is becoming muddy and angry.

Mita Valina Liem, Jakarta – It's one of the few countries that still has vast swathes of tropical rainforests left. But conservationists say maybe not for long.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Post-tsunami reconstruction works in Aceh are contributing to deforestation as reconstruction agencies use timber from illegal logging activities, an envir

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – Indonesia is set to enter the Guinness Book of World Records, but it is not an achievement the country will want to brag about.

Jakarta – Indonesia's Forestry Minister said he could not accept the release of illegal logging suspects and called for an investigation of judges handling the cases, reports said Satur

Rita A.Widiadana and Wasti Atmodjo, Nusa Dua – The governors of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Papua and West Papua committed to significantly reducing deforestation in their areas at a clim

Padang, West Sumatra – West Sumatra Police have uncovered 39 cases of illegal logging in the last two weeks, a police officer said Tuesday.

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – The government has embarked on an enormous reforestation program in a bid to rehabilitate 59.2 million hectares of damaged forest throughout Indonesia, Fores

Jakarta – Indonesia is the world's fastest destroyer of forests, eradicating 300 football fields' worth every hour, environmental group Greenpeace said Friday as it staged a demonstrati

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – The Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam provincial administration is set to declare a moratorium on the logging of forested regions in the province.

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Illegal logging has been blamed for Saturday's landslides and floods in Flores Island's Manggarai regency, while the death toll from the disaster now stands at

Jakarta – A leading environmental organization has praised police action against a company accused of illegal logging, but says it wants the authorities to take a harder line against th

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Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – The government plans to reclaim, for a second time, up to 500,000 hectares of peatland in Central Kalimantan for agricultural and plantation use as part of a nat

Jakarta – A coalition of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) called on the government to cancel auctions for two selective logging concessions in Riau and Jambi, saying the move would

Jakarta/Banda Aceh, Langkat – The Forestry Ministry on Thursday blamed the authorities' inability to halt illegal logging for the devastating floods and landslides that have killed at l

Nabiha Shahab, Jakarta – Disasters such as the flash floods which have killed 100 people and displaced more than 400,000 will be repeated unless Indonesia takes swift action to restore

Jakarta – An alliance of activists, politicians and experts has accused Forestry Minister M.S.

Niniek Karmini, Mantangai – Dozens of endangered orangutans have been driven from their dwindling jungle habitat in Borneo by months of land-clearing fires that have shrouded parts of t

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Jakarta – An environmental group is questioning the government's commitment to combating rampant illegal logging in North Sumatra, saying many cases have been left unresolved while seve

Martin Abbugao, Singapore – The annual recurrence of carbon-rich haze caused by illegal fires in Indonesia's vast tropical peatlands may help fuel global warming if left unchecked, expe

Jakarta – Civil servants in an Indonesian province have been offered two days off work if they help douse land-clearing fires which have blanketed vast areas with choking haze, official

Niniek Karmini, Pekanbaru – Southeast Asian nations Friday urged Indonesia to ratify a regional treaty to fight annual brush fires that have sent choking smoke across parts of Malaysia

Martin Abbugao, Singapore – Pressure is intensifying on Indonesia to take action on the smoke haze blighting neighbouring countries as Singapore invited regional ministers to discuss "u

Jakarta/Jambi/Palembang – As parts of Indonesia and neighboring countries continue to suffer through what is being called the worst haze since the massive forest fires of 1997, Malaysia

Jakarta – Greenpeace activists literally smoked out the forestry ministry in Jakarta on Thursday to protest the government's failure to stop forest fires.

Jakarta/Batam – Haze from land-clearing fires in jungle-clad Kalimantan and Sumatra worsened Thursday, disrupting travel and shutting schools across the northern part of the country as

Bandung – Fires in West Java have decimated at least 3,000 hectares of protected forested land during the first nine months of this year, the head of West Java Forestry Office says.

Badriah and Erwin Dariyanto, Jakarta – Around 50 major illegal loggers and thousands of small illegal loggers are still free in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and China.

Hasrul, Kendari – A group of students protested in front of the Southeast Sulawesi legislative council Sunday, demanding an investigation into illegal logging on Buton Island.

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Palembang, South Sumatra – Data collected by an environmental group here shows that 98 of the 2,047 hot spots on the island of Sumatra were detected in concession areas of private plant

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Jakarta – Indonesian Forestry Minister Malem Sambet Kaban has urged local administrative heads to play a more active role in preventing land clearing by fire, blamed for the thick smoki

Jakarta/Jambi – Haze from fires raging on the jungle-clad islands of Sumatra and Borneo thickened Thursday as officials met to prepare a plan for battling the blazes.

Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia has urged Indonesia to tackle the forest fires it blames for the choking haze that has engulfed the region.