Indonesia’s government has been at pains to stress that the recent catastrophe in Sumatra was triggered by a rare ...

Reeling from a cyclone that may have erased a chunk of its population, the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape ...

A new study says the flooding that killed more than 1,000 people has also likely killed dozens of a critically endangered ...

Anwar Lawden, Director of PT Toba Pulp Lestari Tbk, emphasized that the company fully respects the government's decision.

Cyclone Senyar hit South and Southeast Asian countries in late November. In Indonesia, the island of Sumatra, especially its ...

Deforestation by both legal and illegal means has steadily eroded ecological resilience in Indonesia, worsening the impacts of flooding in recent days ...

Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) urges the Forestry Ministry to revoke all forestry sector permits in Aceh, North ...

By Achmad Rizki MuazamAyat S. KarokaroTaufik Wijaya NORTH SUMATRA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s environment ministry on Dec. 6 ...

Environmental group Walhi North Sumatra earlier accused seven companies operating in and around the Batang Toru ecosystem of ...

KUALA CENAKU, Indonesia, Dec. 1 — Here on the island of Sumatra, about 1,200 miles from the global climate talks under way on Bali, are some of the world’s fastest-disappearing forests. A look at this ...

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