Hannah Gould – One of the world's largest producers of palm oil has drained and planted on areas of peatland supposed to be protected by Indonesian law, claims a new report from Greenpeace, with le

Angel L Martinez Cantera in Jambi, Sumatra – "Our main goal is to preserve the forest according to the customary traditions of our people.

Indonesia has rejected applications from scores of companies for new palm oil operations, an official said on Wednesday, as it cracks down on an industry whose expansion has been blamed for fuellin

Medan – Rampant illegal logging in the upstream areas of protected forests around Mount Sibayak, Karo regency, North Sumatra, is believed to be the cause of a flash flood that hit the Dua Warna Wat

Indonesia is pushing to ban new palm oil operations after last year's haze-belching forest fires were partly blamed on the industry's expansion, but producers are warning the move could hit the eco

Thousands of hotspots have been detected by the government this year, an early warning sign of the rampant forest fires which have in the past caused massive losses in Sumatra and Kalimantan.

Stephen Wright – A landmark commitment by one of the world's largest producers of tissue and paper to stop cutting down Indonesia's prized tropical forests is under renewed scrutiny as the company

Rizal Harahap and Severianus Endi – The general public were warned about the possibility of massive forest and land fires on Monday, after fires ravaged a total 700 ha in Meranti Islands regency, R

Michael Kodas, Kenyala, Indonesia – The orange-furred toddler survived one of the most destructive wildfires on record, but with a plastic tube leashing her neck to the porch of a small

Hans Nicholas Jong – The government is campaigning against a "zero deforestation" pledge (IPOP) signed by leading palm oil producers in Indonesia.

Joe Cochrane – Katty, a docile, orange-haired preschooler, fell from a tree with a thump.

Jakarta – As forest fires raged like never before across Indonesia last year, President Joko Widodo announced he was setting up a special agency to tackle the annual scourge that shrouds parts of S

Karl Mathiesen – Indonesia's palm oil, mining and logging industries are enmeshed in a cat's cradle of overlapping land claims and corruption that are hampering attempts to stop deforestation and f

Ben Child – The Indonesian government has threatened to deport Leonardo DiCaprio after the Oscar-winning actor and film-maker made critical statements about the country's palm oil industry during a

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The central government has instructed local governments to intensify their peatland restoration programs, but has not allocated funds from the state budget, leaving them

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – A group of citizens in Riau have filed a lawsuit against the central government with the Pekanbaru District Court, demanding serious action be taken against the forest an

Anton Hermansyah – The Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) plans to offer asset swaps to local communities using peatland for plantation purposes in an effort to restore two million hectares of peatl

Haeril Halim, Syofiardi Bachyul Jb and Rizal Harahap, Jakarta/Padang/Pekanbaru – The Home Ministry has ordered local administrations in Kalimantan and Sumatra to launch preventive measures to conta

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government is planning to reform its non-tax state revenue (PNBP) system in the forestry sector following a finding that corruption in the sector is causing trilli

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia is at risk of missing the opportunity to become the first country in the world to achieve full implementation of its timber legality system, called SVLK, as

More details have emerged about the visit to West Papua by the US Ambassador to Indonesia, including American concern about destruction of rainforest in the region.

Elizabeth Matsangou – As the world's most commonly traded vegetable oil, palm oil is a key economic driver for Indonesia.

Jakarta – The government is preparing to appeal a Palembang District Court verdict declaring that the operations of pulp producer PT Bumi Mekar Hijau (PT BMH) did not cause any environmental damage

National – The government has expressed its desire to file an appeal to a higher court following its loss at the Palembang District Court in relation to a forest fire case against PT Bu

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has lost a Rp 7.8 trillion ($565 million) lawsuit brought against a pulp and paper company accused of setting fires that razed 20,000 hectares of lan

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The government will have to revoke a freeze on operating permits for more than 900,000 hectares of industrial forest or the local pulp and paper industry will lo

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's timber legality system has not been able to stop pulp and paper giants from using illegally sourced timber, as the system is filled with loopho

Indonesia has announced it is punishing more than 20 companies for starting deadly forest fires that killed 19 people.

Indonesia's economy took a $16bn hit this year from forest fires that cloaked south-east Asia in haze, more than double the sum spent on rebuilding Aceh after the 2004 tsunami, accordin

Greenpeace says the impact of rampant forest and peatland fires in Indonesia's Papua region is having a devastating effect on West Papuan society.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Provided with a limited allocation from the state budget, the government may only have the capacity to restore less than 5 percent of the total peatland ar

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – For years, forest fires and the ensuing haze have been reoccurring problems in Indonesia.

Jonathan Vit, Jakarta) – Progress in the fight against global warming may hinge on the future of one tiny fruit in Southeast Asia.

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – The Jambi Police say they have named officials from several corporations as suspects in the peatland and forest fires that spread a choking haze across the province

Jakarta – Indonesia will present it's ideas on how to prevent forest fires and rehabilitate damaged peatland as part of climate change mitigation efforts at the upcoming UN climate chan

Medan – Thousands of hectares of mangroves along the eastern coast of North Sumatra have been seriously damaged due to large areas being converted into oil palm plantations.

Indonesia is under pressure to properly enforce sweeping land-management reforms to improve its record on devastating wildfires with less than a week to crucial climate talks in Paris.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government is gearing up to restore as many as 2 million hectares of peatlands destroyed through decades of mismanaged oil palm plantations.

Indonesia's forestry business players have urged the government to withdraw a draft Presidential Decree that would see an end to new licenses for peatland clearing and corporate license

Jakarta – Green group Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI) has criticized the Environment and Forestry Ministry for being one of the most secretive ministries in the government and has warned that that att

Bangkok – Toxic fumes from the Indonesian fires that have spread a choking haze across Southeast Asia may be doing more harm to human and plant health than officials have indicated, scientists meas

Kate Lamb – Freshly burned land in Indonesia has already been illegally planted with oil palm, new evidence suggests, following the loss of two million hectares of forest and peatland since July to

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government plans to revise regulations related to the forestry sector in a bid to put an end to the annual forest fires that have put the lives of millions of peop

Jakarta – A leading anti-haze activist has accused the chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly of allowing corporations to burn forests and causing the haze crisis.

Jakarta – More than two million hectares of forest area have been reduced to ashes in the past five months in Indonesia, according to the data published by the National Space and Aviation Agency (L

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – While the annual land and forest fires usually occurr in Sumatra and Kalimantan, a large agricultural project in Merauke, Papua, could turn the eastern part of Indones

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – The Trade Ministry has defended its stance on a revised regulation annulling the timber legality verification system (SVLK) requirement for exporting 15 downstream products

Alex Morales – Indonesia's forest fires have catapulted the southeast Asian nation to the top of the rankings of the world's worst global warming offenders, with daily emissions exceeding those of

Jakarta – A smear campaign against the national palm-oil industry is underway, the Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association (GAPKI) has claimed, as pictures went viral on social media showing youn

John Vidal – Raging Indonesian forest fires have advanced into dense forest on Borneo and now threaten one third of the world's remaining wild orangutans, say conservationists.