Fergus Jensen, Jakarta – Chappy Hakim, a retired air force chief who says he knows next to nothing about mining, now heads Indonesia's biggest copper producer, entrusted to use his connections to g

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The mining giant Freeport has selected a former chief of staff of Indonesia's air force to be chief executive of its Papua-based operations.

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Grasberg mine in the Indonesian province has been a source of untold wealth for its owners, but local communities say it has brought poverty and oppression

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Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The development of geothermal energy remains sluggish while interest from oil and gas companies wanes because of continued low crude prices.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Constrained by high costs associated with tapping alternative energy sources to fossil fuels, the government has revived discussion on its long-shelved nuclear plan

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Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Non-performing loans (NPL) in the banking industry worsened in August to 3.22 percent compared to 3.18 percent in July, as a result of slow credit restructuring in the m

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Haeril Halim, Jakarta – As the government completes preliminary studies and prepares human resources to build and operate the country's first nuclear power plant, it is keeping its options open for

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – State electricity company PLN is ready to supply electricity to areas on Indonesia-Timor Leste borders by the end of this year.

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Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The government's proposed incentives for oil and gas businesses may not be the game-changer policy the weak industry badly needs.

Jakarta – The government has argued that it must build coal-fired power plants (PLTUs) across the country to meet soaring electricity demand.

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Dylan Amirio, Jakarta – The future of Indonesia's oil and gas sector continues to look bleak with latest estimates showing oil lifting rates plunging by almost half from current levels by 2020, wit

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Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government is seeking to sue more companies blamed for 25 deaths at depleted coal mine pits in East Kalimantan that took place between 2011 and 2016 after years of

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has decried the government's "protracted inaction" in dealing with 25 deaths at depleted coal mine pits in East Kalimantan that took p

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Shinta Maharani, Yogyakarta – A group of young artists under the Alliance for Art Jog 2016 Boycott urged the Art Jog 2016 committee to return a sponsorship money worth Rp100 million (US$7,500) give

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Jakarta – Civil society groups have slammed the police's handling of an anti-mining rally in Merigi Kelindang, Central Bengkulu, at the weekend after four local residents were shot and two police o

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Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Oil imports will swell to more than US$40 billion in 2019 from the current value of $15 billion, as domestic supply continues to fall amid lack of exploration while demand

Arnold Belau, Jayapura – As many as 101 Mobile Brigade (Brimob, paramilitary police) personnel from the East Java regional police (Polda) were sent to West Papua on Monday May 16.

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Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The government should exclude mining permit (IUP) holders as potential beneficiaries of a planned tax amnesty, NGOs have demanded, arguing that hundreds of them had evad

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government should move away from its dependency on dirty coal to cleaner renewable energy if it is to meet its ambitious capacity target to install 35 gigawatts (G

Venidora Oliveira – With oil production in Kitan and Bayu-Undan is in steep decline, there are calls for the Timorese government to boost state revenue by developing other sectors.

Fedina S. Sundaryani – Oil and gas companies are increasingly reluctant to keep exploring for new deposits as oil prices remain at an all-time low.

Jayapura – Papuan activists met with US Ambassador to Indonesia Robert Blake in the provincial capital on Tuesday to discuss human rights, politics and US-owned Freeport Indonesia.

Palu – Twenty-one illegal gold miners are receiving hospital treatment after a clash with hundreds of police officers and forest rangers near Lore Lindu National Park in Poso regency, Central Sulaw