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Jakarta – Policies implemented during President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's previous tenure have severely damaged the environment, bringing the country to a state of ecological crisis, a

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Green groups on Monday called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to fulfill his stated commitment to reducing carbon emissions during his second term, which

Fidelis E Satriastanti – As attempts to contain an oil spill from a well operated by Thai and Australian companies proved futile, a conservationist warned on Sunday that the disaster wo

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Anita Rachman – Four districts and a municipality in West Java have submitted reports estimating the total damage caused by the Sept. 30 West Sumatra earthquake at Rp 6 trillion.

Erwida Maulia and Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Around 90,000 families are still homeless in Padang, West Sumatra, two weeks after the 7.9-magnitude quake hit the province as the UN pledges t

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – A large area of mangrove forests in Lampung, which acts as a buffer for coastal residents from tidal waves, has been depleted rapidly over the past yea

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Indonesia's tough new environment law, passed last month and aimed at any firm with an effect on the environment, may take as long as two years to implement, a

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Hundreds of people buried by landslides in Indonesia two weeks ago have been registered as dead, raising the death toll from last month's earthquake to 1,115.

Fidelis E Satriastanti – The newly installed members of the House of Representatives only start work today, but already they have "homework" in the form of a comprehensive green agenda

Jakarta – Most buildings that collapsed during the recent earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, were badly designed and constructed, a survey has concluded.

As the people of West Sumatra gather the ruins of their lives around them and slowly start again, forced to accept there are bodies that will never be recovered from last week's earthqu

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Scientists who examined last week's devastating earthquake in West Sumatra have come to an alarming conclusion: it was not "the big one" they have long been foreca

Eric Talmadge, Kampung Laweh (Indonesia) – Children swarmed into the streets clutching begging boxes and yelling "please help me" Wednesday as an aid convoy reached villages deep in Ind

Jonathan Pearlman with agencies, Padang – Unable to reach the bodies buried beneath them, workers have begun demolishing buildings damaged in Indonesia's giant earthquake.

Indonesia is considering declaring four villages mass graves after they were buried by landslides in last week's earthquake.

Aubrey Belford, Bunga Pasang (West Sumatra) – Indonesian housewife Edib Mulyati stands in the ruins of her quake-hit house and smiles bitterly at the government's promises of aid, sayin

Padang – As West Sumatra begins rebuilding after last week's earthquake, questions are being raised about whether corruption and shoddy building standards contributed to the extent of t

Text messages have been circulating since last week linking the timing of Wednesday and Thursday's earthquakes in Sumatra with verses about immorality and punishment in the Koran, promp

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Padang (Indonesia) – The earthquake devastated west Sumatran city of Padang is slowly trying to drag itself to normalcy today with school students back in those cla

Eric Talmadge and Irwan Firdaus, Padang – Rescue workers called off the search Monday for life under the rubble left by a massive earthquake, focusing instead on bringing aid to survivo

Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – Some superstitious Indonesians are blaming a supposedly unlucky president and not shifting tectonic plates for the latest earthquake.

Eric Talmadge and Irwan Firdaus, Jumanak (Indonesia) – With no outside help in sight, villagers used their bare hands Sunday to dig out rotting corpses, four days after landslides trigg

Tom Allard, Padang – Hopes for hundreds of people trapped under collapsed buildings in Padang faded yesterday, as diplomats frantically tried to account for as many as 60 Australians mi

Tom Allard – Nestled in densely forested hills, with spectacular volcanoes in the distance and pitched on a coast a short boat ride from spectacular tropical islands and surf breaks, Pa

Syofiardi Bachyul and Jon Afrizal, Padang/Jambi – The death toll from Wednesday's powerful earthquake in West Sumatra is believed to be in the thousands, as rescue teams struggle to dig

Irwan Firdaus, Padang – Rescue workers used excavators Thursday to pull out victims, some screaming in pain, from the heavy rubble of buildings felled by a powerful earthquake that kill

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Residents of East Java's capital are preparing for another water crisis, as October – the transition month from the dry to rainy season – is considered the worst m

Putri Prameshwari & Eras Poke – Concerns over a damaged well leaking crude oil into the Timor Sea near East Nusa Tenggara have prompted the government to dispatch a team to monitor

Fidelis E Satriastanti – As the climate talks in Bangkok draw near, environmentalists are worried that the country would be unable to gain much from the negotiations because of its lack

Camelia Pasandaran – Hundreds of Acehnese displaced by the December 2004 tsunami celebrated Idul Fitri in a squalid camp in Aceh Besar district, prompting calls on Wednesday for the pro

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Tiny East Timor on Wednesday signed a UN treaty to protect the Earth's fragile ozone layer, making it the first environmental pact to achieve backing from all 196 member states, the Un

Nivell Rayda, Cianjur (West Java) – Confusion and sadness were just some of the emotions felt by earthquake victims in one small village on Thursday, as the search and rescue efforts to

Nivell Rayda, Garut (West Java) – With the election season over, victims of the Indonesian earthquake in West Java are finding new ways to utilize obsolete campaign banners, using them

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – A group of Lapindo mudflow victims broke their fast on Wednesday with the Bakrie family in Kahuripan Nirwana Village, the housing complex built for them by the Bak

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A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit off Indonesia late on Monday, seismologists say, but no tsunami alert was issued and there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

Sunanda Creagh – Indonesia's parliament passed a new environment bill on Tuesday giving the Environment Ministry the power to revoke polluters' business licenses, which environmentalist

Anita Rachman & Ismira Lutfia – Health officials are battling disease that is now spreading among refugees from last week's massive earthquake in West Java, with many complaining of

The operators of major resource extraction projects in the Indonesian province of Papua could face tough criminal penalties if they are found to have caused excess levels of environment

Adek Berry, Cipanas (Indonesia) – Rescuers in Indonesia are continuing to search for dozens of people buried by a major earthquake that killed at least 63 people, as anger mounts at the

Jakarta – Rescuers in Indonesia continued to search Saturday as hopes faded for dozens of people missing after a major 7.0-magnitude earthquake, an official said.

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – The illegal trade in Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatraensis) and their body parts in Jambi province has gone on unabated and has caused the tiger population

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Rescue workers were frantically sifting through rubble with their hands to find victims of Wednesday's earthquake in Indonesia, with many young children missing an

Irwin Fedriansyah, Cikangkareng – Rescuers dug through rocks and debris with their bare hands Thursday in search of dozens of villagers believed buried in a landslide triggered by a str