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By Hans Nicholas Jong in Jakarta A top Indonesian official has declared a halt to new oil palm plantations in the country’s heavily forested West...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Thousands of forest fires have been burning across Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra, disrupting air travel, closing schools and sickening thousands of...

Crucial to how Indonesia's news outlets cover the environment - and its destruction - is the ownership and vested interests of the media landscape. ...

By Basten Gokkon in Pontianak, West Kalimantan A timber plantation company is illegally clearing one of Indonesia’s last coastal peat swamp forests, a carbon reservoir...

Fires in Indonesia, which burned more than 2.1 million hectares of forest and peatlands in 2015, have raged in dry seasons year on year,...

By India Thorogood "Indonesia is burning - so why is the world looking away?" Late last year those words shone a small spotlight on a...

Report by Ryan Dagur in Jakarta A leader of a Jakarta-based indigenous people's organisation has expressed disappointment at the agreement recently adopted at the Paris...

Report by Professor Crispin Maslog in MANILA As 190 nations grapple with the world's future at the global climate summit in Paris, forest fires in...

Report by Ryan Dagur in Jakarta While countries consider their climate change options for the future at COP21 in Paris, forest fires and the ensuing...