Pollution

When paper waste imports started began 20 years ago most Bangun residents sold their farms to work as waste collectors for paper mills. Now many are dependent on waste sorting

The complexity of plastic waste in Indonesia

Government, producers and the public must all cooperate to tackle Indonesia’s waste problems

An investigation into the transboundary haze and the palm plantations in Indonesia

Elections are fuelling the forest fires in Central Kalimantan

Forest conversion in Kalimantan is a local, national and global concern

Bioprospecting is threatening Bunaken National Park

Air crashes, riots, smog, and a currency crisis dented tourist arrivals in 1997. But, says ANNA KARIN EKLÖF, newly rich Asian tourists will save the industry in the long term.

Popular protest closes a huge paper and pulp mill in Sumatra, but others go on polluting

What sort of attempt is being made to control the use of pesticides?

Mountains of garbage and nowhere to put it

Environmental groups protest a power plant at Lovina

Review: Both books illustrate the way the Suharto family exploited Indonesia