Jakarta – As the Mentawai Islands continue to struggle to deal with the loss of life and emergency response in the wake of the tsunami disaster, West Sumatra Governor Irwan Prayitno has

HS Syahril, North Pagai, Indonesia – Indonesian tsunami survivors complained Monday they are being forced to scavenge for wild roots because aid had not arrived a week after the wave cr

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Padang – A coalition of NGOs has criticized what they perceive as a sluggish relief operation following last week's deadly tsunami in Mentawai, West Sumatra.

Sleman, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X has criticized Indonesian political parties for potentially increasing the trauma suffered by victims displaced by t

Nivell Rayda, Tuapejat and Sikakap – Despite being the capital of Mentawai district, tsunami relief efforts in Tuapejat are apparently in chaos, with food and medical supplies not only

Slamet Riyadi, Mount Merapi, Indonesia – A deadly volcano in Indonesia spewed another searing cloud of ash down its slopes Sunday, prompting panic and chaos among thousands of villagers

Nivell Rayda & Agencies, Padang, Indonesia – At least 413 people have now been confirmed killed in the tsunami that slammed into the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra on Monday, as r

Jakarta – A legislator from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party apologized on Thursday after House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Ali said people who live on islan

Achmad Ibrahim and Slamet Riyadi, Mentawai Islands, Indonesia – The death toll from a tsunami and a volcano rose to more than 340 Thursday as more victims of Indonesia's double disaster

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission on Thursday issued a stern reminder for all television stations to be more conscientious in broadcasting disaster footage

Widya Utami & Eko Listiyorini, Indonesia – Rescuers searched for survivors of a tsunami in Indonesia's remote west while aid workers headed for the site of a volcano eruption as the

Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, Jakarta – At least 23 people are dead and scores missing, including nine Australians, after a powerful earthquake hit Indonesia's west coast and triggered a ts

Tarko Sudiarno, Mount Merapi, Indonesia – Indonesia ordered thousands of people to evacuate from around Mount Merapi on Monday as it raised the alert for its most active volcano to red,

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Jakarta – Global environmental pressure group Greenpeace said on Thursday that its Rainbow Warrior flagship had been denied access to Indonesian waters to load supplies.

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Jakarta – Global environmental pressure group Greenpeace said on Thursday that its Rainbow Warrior flagship had been denied access to Indonesian waters, and insisted the government had

Irwan Firdaus, Jakarta – An environmental group has released video footage of a bulldozer buzzing trees in a protected forest that is home to endangered Sumatran tigers, but the governm

Jakarta – The Indonesian Red Cross have blamed "miscommunication" among emergency authorities for sending relief aid to the devastated town of Wasior in West Papua, despite the fact tha

AWPA (Sydney) has written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard urging that as Australia is one of the best resourced countries in the region we should offer assistance to the Indonesian Gove

Manokwari – The death toll from flash floods in eastern Indonesia has risen to 110 with bodies still lying unclaimed in the mud four days after the disaster, an official said on Friday.

Wasior, West Papua – The remote Indonesian town of Wasior was a scene of devastation on Wednesday, with bodies lying unclaimed in the debris of flash floods that killed at least 86 peop

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Residents of three villages in Jabon subdistrict in Sidoarjo, East Java, have refused to leave their homes as part of a government plan to use the area as a reserv

Ulma Haryanto, Jakarta – The government's lack of comprehensive strategy in preventing erosion along the country's coastlines will pose a threat to the livelihoods of those living along

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Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The Environment Ministry may miss a deadline for implementing the 2009 Environmental Law on schedule, activists agreed.

Jakarta – Unusually heavy rainfall brought on by the La Nina weather phenomenon have hammered Indonesia in recent months, leading to a pronounced drop in resource extraction and agricul

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Billions of dollars Indonesia stands to earn every year in climate change deals could be at risk if it fails to stamp out corruption in its forestry sector, lo

Eras Poke, Kupang – A nongovernmental organization in East Nusa Tenggara has lodged a claim for a scientific evaluation of the long-term health damage that could result from last year's

Binsar Bakkara, Tanah Karo, Indonesia – An Indonesian volcano shot a towering cloud of black ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles (25 kilometers) away in its most po

Sydney – A Thai-owned firm Friday rejected Indonesia's 2.4 billion US dollar compensation claim over a major oil spill off Australia's north which campaigners say hit the livelihoods of

Arlina Arshad, Jakarta – A volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted for the first time in 400 years Sunday, spewing a vast cloud of smoke and ash into the air and sending tho

Jakarta – A survey jointly conducted by the National Nuclear Agency (Batan) and the University of Indonesia's School of Social and Political Sciences found that 57.6 percent of responde

Liwa (Lampung) – Unchecked hunting is feared to wipe out the deer population in Liwa regency within the next 10 years, residents and government officials said Monday.

Fidelis E Satriastanti, Jakarta – The Rote Ndao district administration in East Nusa Tenggara will seek Rp 7 trillion ($780 million) in compensation for last year's Montara oil spill in

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Indonesia has been experiencing its most extreme weather conditions in recorded history, meteorologists warned on Wednesday as torrential rains continued to pou

Indonesia – A dramatic spike in ocean temperatures off Indonesia's Aceh province has killed large areas of coral and scientists fear the event could be much larger than first thought an

Indonesia – As downpours continue to cast a cloud over the dry season, resource producers have slashed output targets and the government has been forced to look abroad to meet local dem

Jakarta – Industrial waste and land conversion has destroyed almost 70 percent of mangrove forests along Java's and Bali's northern coasts, an environmental activist says.

London – The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak today (August 5, 2010) name two of the kingpins in Indonesia profiteering from the hugely lucrative international trade

Camelia Pasandaran& Fidelis E Satriastanti, Jakarta – Government officials on Thursday said more compensation was needed to pay for the Timor Sea oil spill, because the coastal resi

Jakarta – Environmental degradation will cause 117 bird species in Indonesia to vanish, a non-governmental organization predicts.

Jakarta – Indonesia will seek compensation from a company operating a Timor Sea oil rig that last year leaked into Australian and Indonesian waters and caught ablaze, President Susilo B

Pekanbaru – Twenty-five Greenpeace activists blockaded a vessel loading thousands cubic meters of timber at a port operated by PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) at Teluk Binjai Vill

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Nivell Rayda – A report published by an Australian university this month warns that massacres such as those alleged to have occurred in East Timor are likely to occur in Papua.

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Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – Fifteen Greenpeace members were detained for questioning after police dispersed their campaign in Cirebon, West Java, on the grounds that the event had been held

The National Nuclear Power Agency has conceded defeat in its controversial attempts to construct a nuclear power plant on the Muria Peninsula in Central Java by 2016, saying opposition