Neil Chatterjee & Fitri Wulandari – As smoke from Indonesia's burning forests drifted across the Strait of Malacca into Singapore last June, the pollution index shot up and Ong Eng

John Vidal, Manila – High above the vast Indonesian island of Sumatra, satellites identify hundreds of plumes of smoke drifting over the oil palm plantations and rainforests.

Herman Genie & Tunggadewa Mattangkilang – Nearly 50,000 people in Riau province have been suffering from upper respiratory infections due to the worsening forest fires in Sumatra, a

Alina Musta'idah, Jakarta – Indonesia's palm oil industry has denied green activists' claims that it was behind the deforestation that has driven the highly endangered orangutan from it

Jakarta – Indonesia's Riau province declared a state of emergency on Thursday as haze from raging forest fires, often deliberately set, disrupted flights and marine navigation and autho

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia has called on consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) to stop sourcing palm oil from firms responsible for destroying the natur

Ethan Harfenist, Jakarta – Greenpeace accused Procter & Gamble on Wednesday of sourcing palm oil from environmentally destructive firms, finding the US consumer goods giant complici

Jakarta – Some 20,000 people have reported respiratory illnesses in Riau as forest fires and the resulting haze continued to worsen on Monday, the local health agency reported.

Jakarta – The number of hotspots of forest, plantation and peatland fires in Riau reached 256 on Wednesday morning, more than double the 126 of the previous day.

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Brushfires continued to rage on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday, blanketing the troubled Riau province in heavy haze and prompting calls of c

Rizal Harahap and Jon Afrizal, Pekanbaru/Jambi – The regency administration of Meranti Islands, Riau province, has declared the forest and field fires in the region as an extraordinary

ID/Grace Dwitiya Amianti, Berau – Deep in the forests of Borneo island, workmen from an Indonesian timber company fell a tree with a chainsaw, stick a red tag with a serial number onto

After a decade-long fight against illegal logging, the idea of resuming log exports is heating up following a recent proposal by the Forestry Ministry.

Gethin Chamberlain – Even in the first light of dawn in the Tripa swamp forest of Sumatra it is clear that something is terribly wrong.

Jakarta – Greenomics Indonesia's spatial verification results on the "Global Forest Cover Change 2000-2012" map, which was published by the University of Maryland in the US in mid-Novem

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The first high-resolution global forest cover on Google Earth should be used as a tool to revive discussion over the country's actual forest coverage and

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Indonesia has the fastest rate of deforestation in the past 12 years, according to a new global map on deforestation.

A large demonstration allegedly initiated by palm oil company Kallista Alam, which is accused of illegally destroying some of the world's most important remaining orangutan habitat on t

Berni Moestafa – Illegal logging and mismanagement of Indonesia's forestry industry may have prevented more than $7 billion flowing to state coffers from 2007 to 2011, costing the gover

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – After a two-month-long investigation, environmental NGO the Hutan Rakyat Institute, says it has found that a "colonial labor system" that violates workers' righ

Paris – Forests are still disappearing and local communities disregarded by palm oil development despite a plan to put the sector on a sustainable footing, researchers warned as an indu

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Novianti Setuningsih – An antigraft watchdog has urged Indonesian law enforcement institutions to strengthen their fight against crimes in the nation's forestry sector.

Matthew Pennington, Washington – At home and abroad, Indonesia is highlighting its progress in curbing the environmental destruction that has depleted forests and made the Southeast Asi

Thalif Deen – The tiger population in the rainforests of Sumatra is vanishing at a staggering rate, reducing the number of the endangered species to as few as 400, Greenpeace Internatio

Oreo cookies and Gillette shaving cream are among products driving the destruction of Indonesia's forests, Greenpeace said Tuesday, accusing agri giant Wilmar International for supplyin

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi), a conservation group, has said that it would file a lawsuit against the government for failing to control the annual forest f

Joseph Saunders – A long-awaited agreement signed on Monday by Indonesia and the European Union to trade only in legal timber is a critical first step toward reform of Indonesia's notor

Jakarta – Ricky Avenzora, a forestry expert at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB), has hailed Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan's plan to evaluate cooperations with foreign NGOs.

The fallout over pointed questions about the government's inability to tackle illegal logging in a protected forest has continued with a legislator calling for the banishment of a leadi

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Three environmentalists in North Sumatra are going to give up their awards in protest against the national government, which they claim has persistently neglect

Baradan Kuppusamy, Kuala Lumpur – With a propensity to devour everything in their path and spiral quickly out of control, leaving behind swathes of scorched earth, forest fires are cons

The return of the smog is only the most tangible evidence of the damage from Indonesia's continuing failure to effectively manage its forests.

Dessy Aswim – The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, a self-regulating industry body, has defended four out of five of its member companies accused of contributing to forest fires in S

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Rizky Amelia – Where there's smoke, there's fire, as residents of Riau, Singapore and parts of Malaysia can attest to after forest hot spots in Sumatra ge

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Dessy Sagita – Police in Riau say they have arrested a total of 18 people for starting fires in Riau that led to the worst air pollution in the region since 1997.

Diska Putri Pamungkas – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's much-publicized tree-planting campaign in a Bali mangrove forest on Wednesday was nothing more than hollow posturing to burn

Kasparman Piliang, Pekanbaru, Indonesia – Indonesian authorities have arrested eight farmers for setting illegal fires on Sumatra island to clear land after numerous blazes created a th

Jakarta – Fires on Indonesia's Sumatra, which have cloaked Singapore in record-breaking smog, are raging on palm oil plantations owned by Indonesian, Malaysian and Singaporean companies

Singapore's Pollutant Standards Index stood at a record 400 at 11 a.m., a level deemed hazardous, the National Environment Agency, or NEA, said on its website.

Indonesia on Thursday accused Singapore of "behaving like a child" by complaining about severe haze from raging forest fires on Sumatra island that has cloaked the city-state.

Bagus BT Saragih and Rizal Harahap, Jakarta/Pekanbaru – Amid criticism from its neighbors, Malaysia and Singapore, over the cross-border haze and deteriorating air quality affecting the

Rizal Harahap – Singapore's worst air pollution in 16 years sparked diplomatic tension on Tuesday, as the city state urged Indonesia to provide data on companies and concession maps to

Singapore – Air pollution in Singapore and Malaysia rose to unhealthy levels on Monday thanks to illegal forest clearing in Indonesia, prompting Singapore to advise people against stayi

Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia was Sunday shrouded with haze from forest fires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra causing "unhealthy" levels of pollution in six areas.

Hayat Indriyatno & Diska Putri Pamungkas – Environmental activists have responded with alarm to new data showing Indonesia has the third-biggest area of land in the world given over

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – More than a million people worldwide have joined online calls for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to block the Aceh administration's plan to open prote

More than a million people across the globe have signed an online petition demanding the Indonesian government to cancel the plan to open the protected virgin rainforest in Aceh to comm

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