Jayapura, Jubi – Greenpeace Indonesia's Forest Campaigner Nico Wamafma said that during the period 2000-2020, Papua had lost natural forests of 641,400 hectares.

Fuad Iqbal Abdullah, Banjarbaru – Indonesian authorities deployed two helicopters to conduct water bombing operations in burning forests and peatlands across Kalimantan but the efforts

Jayapura, Jubi – Greenpeace Indonesia Forest Campaigner Nico Wamafma says it takes commitment from the central government and local governments in Papua to protect Papua's natural fores

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A new foundation has been established to support Indonesian farmers in protecting forests and selling their sustainably produced products to the global mar

Supriyanto Khafid, Jakarta – Forest fire occurred in the valley of Mount Rinjani, as part of the Mount Rinjani National Park (MRNP) on Friday, August 4, 2023.

Naufal Ridhwan, Jakarta – Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan opposed the EU's Anti-Deforestation Law (EUDR), claiming the bill to be discriminatory and a hinder to trade.

Antara, Jakarta – The European Union (EU), Malaysia, and Indonesia have agreed to establish an Ad Hoc Joint Task Force (JTF) on the European Union Deforestation-Free Regulation (

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's highest court has upheld a $61 million fine against an oil palm company over massive fires on its plantation that razed an area seven times the

Antara, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) on Thursday detected 74 hotspots of wildfires in several areas of East Kalimantan province amid the ongoing

Jakarta – Indonesian authorities said on Monday the number of areas where wildfires could occur has doubled over the past week due to dry weather, raising concerns over widespread fores

Indonesia's oldest women's Islamic organization will prepare volunteers in Kalimantan and Sumatra to open clean air sanctuaries, should a strengthening El Nino accelerate wildfir

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has justified a sweeping amnesty for millions of hectares of oil palm plantations established illegally in forest areas, saying t

Hreeloita DS, Nabil Ihsan, Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has reported that, based on data collected from June 17 to July 17, 2023, it has identified 490 hotsp

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesian officials say the country's deforestation rate continued to decline for the third year running, hitting a historical low in 2021-2022.

Yogi Eka Sahputra, Batam – The Environment and Forestry (KLHK) Ministry's Director General of Law Enforcement Rasio Ridho Sani said the ministry has named a suspect in the illegal expor

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Most of Indonesia's carbon-rich peatlands aren't protected, according to a new study that calls for prioritizing much-needed restoration efforts for these areas

Mongabay Haze Beat – Indonesian President Joko Widodo has warned of potentially dangerous weather conditions accelerating across the archipelago in the coming months, as the nation's me

When battling to protect Indonesia's peatlands during wildfire crises in 2015 and 2019, most volunteer firefighters confronted the infernos with a dire shortage of equipment and technol

Tri Listiyarini, Jakarta – The deforestation rate in Indonesia showed a notable decline of 8.4 percent for the period of 2021-2022 compared to the previous year's monitoring results.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – In the sky above Sumatra, cloud-seeding aircraft have been trying to induce rain, even in these wetter months, to fill up dams and prevent flammable pea

David ALed Williams – Environmental groups are stressing the importance of the 2024 elections for the future of Indonesia's forests.

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment or Walhi commented on the government's plan of bleaching or pardoning 3.3 million hectares of oil palm land in for

Jakarta – Indonesia, home to a third of the world's rainforests, has seen its annual deforestation drop by 8.4 percent, the Environment and Forestry ministry said on Monday, attributing

Sean Goulding Carroll – Indonesia and Malaysia have accused the EU's anti-deforestation law of unfairly penalising small farmers, arguing that the regulation's complex requirements will

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Indonesian government's decision to revoke hundreds of logging, plantation and mining permits across the country is marred with irregularities includin

Philip Jacobson – A renewable energy project that received millions of dollars in climate financing from the Indonesian government is bulldozing rainforest in the nation's Papua provinc

The Gecko Project – Millions of dollars in green financing intended to help Indonesia reduce its carbon emissions have been invested in a project that is destroying rainforest in Papua.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Top officials from Indonesia and Malaysia, the world's biggest palm oil producers, will meet European Union policymakers in Brussels amid a diplomatic stan

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Sunday had a talk with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to discuss the deforestation-free regulation wh

Divya Karyza, Jakarta – Businesses are waiting for clarity on the impending European Union deforestation law.

Jakarta – It would be futile and a waste of resources for the Indonesian government to continue fighting for a wholesale rejection of the European law on deforestation which the Europea

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – When Indonesia embarked on its Mega Rice Project in the mid-1990s, it cleared vast swaths of forest for farmland, mostly in the peatlands of Borneo – only

Amelia Rahima Sari, Jakarta – Dozens of palm oil farmers staged a protest rejecting the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) in front of the European Union Embassy Office in J

Merauke, Jubi – South Papua Youth Movement for Indigenous Land Care (GPPSPTA), a group of young people in South Papua Province's Merauke Regency, voiced the dangers and threats of defor

Jayapura – Indigenous leader, Hendrikus 'Franky' Woro, today filed an environmental and land rights lawsuit challenging the plan by a Malaysian-owned palm oil company to clear tens of t

Cassie Freund – In 2020, the Indonesian government set a goal of restoring 600,000 hectares, or nearly 1.5 million acres, of mangrove ecosystems by 2024.

Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Adm.

Apriadi Gunawan, Central Tapanuli, North Sumatra – The Environment and Forestry Ministry is looking to designate North Sumatra coastal areas for reforestation location in an effort to r

Ibnu Budiman – Despite a 2013 pledge by major palm oil firms to maintain environmentally friendly operations, a recent report by environmental group Earthqualizer revealed that more tha

Jakarta – Indonesia will take stern action against firms that are found to have caused forest fires in the country, Environment Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar warned on Wednesday (Jan 25).

Caroline Bulolo – Between 2000 and 2019, Indonesia lost more forest to mining than any other tropical country, with coal extraction the main driver, the first ever biome-wide assessment

Jakarta – Environmentalists have criticised Indonesia and Malaysia's pledge to fight "discrimination" against palm oil, saying it puts the countries' commitment to halting deforestation

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Jayapura, Jubi – Head of Greenpeace Indonesia's Forest Campaign Kiki Taufik said there are ten regencies in Papua island with the highest deforestation rate from 2001 to 2020.

Tri S, Kenzu, Manokwari, West Papua – West Papua needs more forest rangers due to its expansive forest area, reaching 8.39 million hectares, while currently, the number of forest ranger

Gafur Abdullah – At the recent G20 summit in Bali, Indonesian President Joko Widodo brought world leaders to the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park, a former fish-farming site being converted

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Court has ruled President Joko Widodo not liable in the disastrous fires in 2015 that devastate large swathes of rainforests and peatla

Rachel Farahdiba R, Jakarta – The Supreme Court (MA) has granted a judicial review request filed by President Jokowi, the Minister of Environment and Forestry, and the Central Kalimanta

Jack Board, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt – Indonesia has received affirmation of its attempts to rein in previously rampant deforestation, as ministers convened at the United Nations climate

Central Kalimantan, Indonesia – Indonesian activists unfurled a giant banner reading 'Food Estate Feeding Climate Crisis' at Gunung Mas, Kalimantan, to protest the clearing of forested