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Indonesia Plays Dual Roles in Climate Change Issues

As an archipelagic country with vast forests and maritime areas, Indonesia is unique as it is most vulnerable to the ...

Indonesia`s rain forest agency set to be in full swing

A new agency to protect Indonesias rainforests is ready to begin work to implement a first of its kind environmental ...

West Aceh shrouded in smoke after peatland fire

West Aceh District of Aceh Province is shrouded in smoke after peatlands in the region caught fire due to illegal land ...

Indonesia launches all-out fight against forest fires

As haze coming from forest, plantation and peatland fires has affected thousands of lives of people in Sumatra as ...

Moratorium Extension Needed For Better Forest Governance

A tag of war between environmental groups and forest industrialists have resumed as Indonesia`s regulation on a ...

Minister confirms extension of forest moratorium

Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan has confirmed that the forest moratorium based on Presidential Instruction No 10/2011 ...

Australian envoy for climate change visits C Kalimantan

Australian Ambassador for Climate Change Justin Lee visited an Australia-funded REDD+ pilot project in Palangkaraya, ...

Indonesia govt denies report on increased deforestation rate

The government has declared that a report regarding the country`s loss of almost 5 million hectares of forest and ...

RI loses 4.9 mln ha despite forest moratorium

Indonesia has lost some 4.9 million hectares of its forests and peatlands, it was found during a revision of the ...

Jakarta to issue improved moratorium map

The Chair of Indonesia`s REDD+ task force said that the Ministry of Forestry will this week release an updated ...

Year-ender: Deforestation Moratorium, REDD+ Decrees In Place For Forests Preservation

Hosting the world's third largest forest area, Indonesia badly needs a legal basis to  protect and preserve its ...

NGOs present forest destruction evidence to govt

Environmental NGOs consisting of Greenpeace, Walhi, KKI Warsi and WBH here Wednesday (Nov. 23) presented evidence of ...

news focus: haze should not disturb upcoming SEA Games

The 26th SEA Games organizing committee is still working hard to prepare everything needed for the successful conduct ...

Fires raze 200 hectares of forest area in C. Java

Fires have razed a total of 200 hectares of forest area in the current dry season in Central Java, a provincial ...

Greenpeace calls for protection of sumatran forest to save tigers

On the eighth day of the Greenpeace "Tiger Eyes" tour, five Greenpeace activists arrived in the area around the ...