JAKARTA, Indonesia — The South Korean government will reduce subsidies for biomass energy after rising domestic and ...

By Liz Kimbrough Over the course of just eight years, the forests surrounding Indonesia’s Lake Poso, an ecological and ...

An Indonesian government plan to clear forests spanning an area twice the size of South Korea for food and biofuel crops has ...

Flash flooding and landslides on Indonesia’s main island of Java have killed at least 21 people and damaged villages and rice ...

Deforestation for both the sugarcane and rice ... to 190,000 hectares (469,500 acres), or nearly three times the size of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital and largest city. Both the sugarcane and ...

Indonesian President Prabowo's idea of expanding oil palm plantations has drawn criticism because it is considered to trigger ...

Indonesia’s plan to convert 20M hectares of forest for food and energy risks deforestation and irreversible biodiversity loss ...

Prabowo’s claim that oil palm plantations can replace forests is fundamentally flawed when viewed through ecological, climatic and societal lenses.

Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends ... develop more palm oil plantations and should not be concerned about deforestation accusations from other countries. He urged all governors ...

Indonesia has welcomed a recent ruling by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which found that the European Union (EU) ...

Professor Yanto Santoso, a senior faculty member at the Faculty of Forestry, IPB University, stated that President Prabowo ...

Deforestation for both the sugarcane and rice projects in ... or nearly three times the size of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital and largest city. Both the sugarcane and rice projects will further ...