Jakarta – The government has set up a new task force to scale up efforts to improve forest management and curb illegal oil palm plantations and illegal mines within forest areas.

Liz Kimbrough, Central Sulawesi – Over the course of just eight years, the forests surrounding Indonesia's Lake Poso, an ecological and evolutionary "gem" on the island of Sulawesi, hav

Indonesia's plan to convert millions of hectares of forests for food and energy use is "environmentally illogical and destructive," and risks irreversible environmental and biodiversity

President Prabowo Subianto might not have thought his remarks would spark a controversy when he recently suggested that Indonesia expand oil palm plantations without worrying about defo

Angelina Tiara Puspitalova, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto proposed expanding oil palm plantations to increase palm oil exports.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – An Indonesian government plan to clear forests spanning an area twice the size of South Korea for food and biofuel crops has sparked fears of massive green

Toronata Tambun – President Prabowo Subianto marked the end of 2024 with a controversial statement. On Dec.

Dani Aswara, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia criticized the government's plan to convert 20 million hectares of forest into land for food, energy, and water.

Experts and activists criticized President Prabowo Subianto's recent remarks, which defended Indonesia's palm oil industry and support for its expansion.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Indonesian company responsible for the largest amount of deforestation, PT Mayawana Persada, has largely ceased clearing peatlands in the western part

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – In a controversial speech, Indonesia's new president argued oil palm plantations are like forests, calling for their expansion by stating, 'oil palms are t

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – A call by the Indonesian President to expand oil palm plantations has drawn backlash from environmental and farmers' groups, which warn that his comments may s

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto claimed on Monday that palm oil is a national asset and the government must increase and expand palm oil plantation

Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto's statement about not being afraid to open new palm oil plantations and plans for palm oil expansion is not particularly surprising, as these plans

Irsyan Hasyim, Jakarta – Environmental campaign organization Satya Bumi criticized President Prabowo Subianto's statement that the expansion of palm oil plantations would have no impact

Fika Nurul Ulya, Ardito Ramadhan, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has stated that Indonesia needs to increase palm oil plantations without fear of being accused of endangering fore

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's plan to clear rainforests half the size of Switzerland for sugarcane plantations isn't just an agricultural gamble, experts warn – it's a poten

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – At the U.N.

Adi Renaldi Thomson, Jakarta – Environmentalists are warning that Indonesia's ambitious plans to achieve net-zero emissions by 2060 rely too heavily on biofuels and risk a new wave of d

Annelise Giseburt – Biomass energy subsidies in South Korea and Japan are threatening Southeast Asia's tropical forests, warns a new report by environmental NGOs.

Spoorthy Raman – When the Indonesian government established Tesso Nilo National Park in 2004 on a former logging concession, little could it have known that the legacy of logging and de

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Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni has announced plans to reforest 12 million hectares of land in Indonesia that was damaged by massive fires in the 1990s and 2

Irsyan Hasyim (Kontributor), Jakarta – The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and The Tree Map provided satellite image evidence of the widespread deforestation driven by palm oil plantati

Carmen Molina Acosta – Former employees of a string of secretive companies accused of clearing swathes of Borneo rainforest claim the group is controlled by Royal Golden Eagle, one of t

Hans Nicholas Jong, Philip Jacobson, Laban Nyarit, Indonesia – Ipu Angit's close relationship with the forest here in the interior of Borneo is evident as he identifies the plants and t

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesian prosecutors have launched an investigation into the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, as there are indications of corruption related to the

Jakarta – Indonesia has seen a marked decrease in the number of forest and land fires this year compared to 2023, according to an official from the country's environment and forestry mi

Petir Garda Bhwana, Jakarta – The extent of palm oil plantations encroaching and even taking over forests has drastically increased since 2019.

Indonesia's push to add wood-burning to its energy mix and exports is driving deforestation, including in key habitats for endangered species such as orangutans, a report said Thursday.

Mansuetus Darto – On September 12, 2024, I attended a meeting of the Joint Task Force (JTF) between the European Union Commission, the Government of Indonesia, and the Government of Mal

Bangkok – Producers from Malaysia and Indonesia's palm oil industry to Vietnam's coffee sector on Thursday welcomed a European Union decision to delay implementation of its anti-defores

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indigenous Papuans say they've been caught off guard by helicopters flying over their villages and excavators tearing down their forests in their area, all

Indonesia, West Papua – A new report has revealed the devastating impacts of palm oil investment in Papua, Indonesia, on both the environment and indigenous communities.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Excavators have begun clearing land in the Indonesian region of Papua in what's been described as the largest deforestation undertaking in the world.

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia's West Kalimantan Provincial Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) revealed that from January 1 to August 30, 2024, land and forest fires have burned an area of

Yulia Savitri, Palembang – Marda Ellius is always stressed out and worried about her and her children's health whenever flames engulfs a forest located near her house in Bangsal village

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Residents of Indonesia's South Sumatra province have filed a lawsuit against three pulpwood companies for a toxic haze that they blame on repeated burning

David Fogarty and Linda Yulisman, Singapore/Jakarta – If there is one thing that worries Indonesia's neighbours, it is choking haze.

Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Lubok Pusaka, Indonesia – Jaharuddin, 50, sits deep in thought in his living room in Lubok Pusaka village, in Indonesia's Aceh province, smoking a cigarette and sta

Liam Pritchett – A planned five million-acre sugarcane megaproject in Indonesia's Papua province could threaten its uniquely biodiverse rainforest and the Indigenous Papuans who depend

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi, Jakarta – Indonesian conservationist Farwiza Farhan says she couldn't contain her tears when she learned that the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation ha

Barita News Lumbanbatu, Sipahutar, Indonesia – On the Indonesian island of Sumatra lives a man named Efron Simanjuntak.

Sarjan Lahay, Gorontalo, Indonesia – A palm oil industry body and a state-owned company are proposing a vast new palm oil plan encompassing around 1 million hectares (nearly 2.5 million

Irsyan Hasyim (Contributor), Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) stated that 99 percent of forest and land fires, or Karhutla, in Indonesia are caused by human acti

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Activists allege that two of the world's biggest pulp and paper companies have violated their zero-deforestation pledge by clearing natural forests and pea

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Allegations of illegal activity and land-grabbing against Indonesia's second-largest palm oil company continue to mount as a new report reveals the firm's

Ellen Phiddian – A study has found that nearly half of land cleared in Indonesia is left idle for more than 5 years.

Jakarta – A number of South Sumatra regencies have been put on siaga (alert) status, the second-highest level of the country's four-tiered alert system, for land and forest fires ahead

Jakarta – Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya recently addressed the Oslo Tropical Forest Forum, saying that Indonesia's deforestation had been witnessing a decline.