Jakarta. As disaster mitigation and law enforcement officials continue to battle the ongoing forest fires in Sumatra’s Riau province, other areas across the country are also struggling to contain blazes ...

Jakarta. Southeast Asia’s largest economy needs to improve its infrastructure to attract more foreign tourists, according to experts who blame slow foreign tourist arrivals in part on the country’s poor ...

The issuance of a fatwa by Indonesia’s top Islamic clerical body against illegal hunting and trade of wildlife, including endangered animals, sends a strong message to poachers to stop. As ...

For Australians, Bali means sand, surf and sunburn. When I told my family and friends that I would be volunteering in Bali for 18 months, most thought I was going ...

Jakarta. Indonesia’s top Islamic clerical body has issued a fatwa, or decree, against the illegal hunting and trade in endangered animals in the country, a move wildlife protection activists have ...

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 its natural habitat. “The claim is ...

Jakarta. Greenpeace accused Procter & Gamble on Wednesday of sourcing palm oil from environmentally destructive firms, finding the US consumer goods giant complicit in the encroachment of Sumatran tiger habitats, slash-and-burn ...

It is obvious that at the moment Indonesia neither has the political commitment nor ability to safeguard its dwindling populations of orangutans.  Despite its Presidentially supported Action Plan to stabilize ...

After a campaign waged by two charismatic Girl Scouts over questionably-sourced palm oil used in Girl Scout Cookies, Kellogg Company today announced a policy that will move it toward deforestation-free ...

It is obvious that at the moment Indonesia neither has the political commitment nor ability to safeguard its dwindling populations of orangutans. Despite its presidentially supported Action Plan to stabilize ...

A wild bear attacked a 52-year-old farmwoman on Monday in Salak Baru, an island in central Sumatra’s Jambi province. “It’s true, a resident of Salak [Baru] island was the victim ...

Though the orangutan is a species endemic to Kalimantan, not all of the island’s residents have seen it firsthand.  Many nature lovers claim to have never come into contact with ...

Surrounded by plants and in front of a whiteboard, with biology related words like “nuclei” and “mitochondria” being tossed around, I felt like I had been transported back to junior ...

The scandal at Indonesia’s notorious “zoo of death” took another turn on Monday after the mayor of Surabaya delivered a file to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) detailing allegations of ...

A court in the Aceh district of Meulaboh has declared palm oil company Kalista Alam guilty of clearing Rawa Tripa peat forests in Aceh by burning land. “Based on trial ...

In a precedent-setting case, an Indonesian court has found a palm oil company guilty of violating environmental laws and ordered it to pay $30 million in fines and reparations for ...

Surabaya. A wildebeest was found dead in its cage over the weekend at the Surabaya Zoo, which has been a subject of much criticism from the local and international public ...

In Surabaya, right behind the grand statue of a white shark and a crocodile, lies what international media have nicknamed “the Zoo of Death.” The Surabaya Zoo, entered the media ...

Jakarta (Antara news) - The Surabaya Zoo tragedy has dragged on too long, making the zoo notorious internationally for its cruelty. The zoo has been labeled as the "zoo of ...

Two modified jeeps were passing a steep hillside in the pine forest of Jantho, Aceh Besar, with roaring engines laboring along a high and muddy ascent. Each of the cars ...

A prime habitat for the endangered orangutan in East Kalimantan’s Kutai National Park has only just recovered from a series of major fires that tore through the area in the ...

JAKARTA - An Indonesian court on Tuesday released two men who had been arrested for allegedly killing and eating a male orangutan early last month, saying their arrests were not ...

Bumitama Agri, an Indonesian palm oil producer, is breaking the law by clearing forests and developing plantations without the proper licenses, a coalition of NGOs said in a report released ...

Twenty-two orangutans in Ketapang regency, West Kalimantan, have been rescued in 2013 so far, all of which are now being treated at the International Animal Rescue (YIARI) rehabilitation center in ...

Banda Aceh. A grievously injured Sumatran orangutan was found on the brink of death on a salak plantation in the South Tapanuli district of North Sumatra, conservation workers said. The ...

Palm oil was on the minds of more than 600 delegates from multinational companies, conservation NGOs as well as smallholder representatives from some 30 countries who gathered in the Roundtable ...

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 the west coast ...

The West Kalimantan capital of Pontianak has recorded at least four cases of people killing endangered orangutans in and around the city within the past four years, an official from ...

Solo. Taru Jurug Zoo is hoping to continue its success with breeding orangutans after receiving a female from the Bangka-Belitung Natural Resource Conservation Agency. The zoo hopes 8-year-old Feby will ...

Kereng Pangi. In a desolate area of central Indonesia where lush rainforest once stood, illegal miners on the frontline of a modern-day gold rush tear up the earth in the hunt ...