Environment

Managing conservation, tourism and the needs of local communities in Bali Barat National Park

Living with the Lapindo disaster

Jatropha biofuel production in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara

Along the Opak River in Pundong, near Bantul, Yogyakarta, locals trade their sweat for a pile of sand.

Tourism campaigns in East Kalimantan fall short of provincial middle class aspirations

Despite being a scene of destruction and heartache, there is a strange beauty in the new landscape created in the wake of the Sidoarjo mud disaster.

An unstoppable flow of mud from an explosion in a gas well in Sidoarjo, East Java, has unleashed a plethora of political issues.

Bunaken National Marine Park is promoted as an ideal mix of tourism and conservation, but not all local people agree

Organic farming takes root in post-bomb Bali

A community takes a fresh look at water

Rich countries should pay big bucks to reduce emissions in the developing world

Burgeoning industrial areas in Java have eaten up Indonesian self-sufficiency in rice production. To compensate, an area of peat swamp in Kalimantan a third the size of the Netherlands is being converted to rice land. IRIP NEWS SERVICE investigates.

RACHEL DREWRY investigates ecotourism as a conservation tool.

MELODY KEMP discovers some quiet achievers in environmental education -- who accept no foreign aid.

MICHAEL DOVE traces Dayak unhappiness to inequities in state development.

The fires were no natural disaster, says JOKO WALUYO. The smoking gun is in the hands of plantation companies.

It's lonely in the Forestry Minister's office, says GERRY VAN KLINKEN.

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.

HELEN LANDYMORE found herself surveying rare birds and fish in stunning locations when she joined an Operation Wallacea expedition.