Tiara Sutari, Jakarta – The Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) held a joint action [with the Indonesian People’s Front for West Papua (FRI-West Papua] in front of the offices of PT Freeport Indonesia in Jakarta on Friday April 7 demanding that Freeport halt its mining activities in Papua because it harms the Papuan people.

Demon: Hate speech, provocation, intolerance, slander, defamation, hoax news

Kid: Dad... Bandung flood, landslides, earthquakes, bomb threats

Man: You have to be sensitive in reading the 'signs of nature' so you don't fumble around and get fatalistic

Kid: There are some animals that'll never become extinct right Dad...

Headline reads 'Endangered wildlife', badges read 'Political Elite', 'Business Owner'

Lazuardhi Utama, Bobby Andalan (Bali) – A group of people calling themselves the “Californians Against Reclamation in Benoa Bay-Bali” held a demonstration in San Francisco to welcome the arrival of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.

Despite the rainy season having begun in November, global warming exacerbated by the El Nino weather phenomenon has resulted in rain still not falling on parts of eastern Indonesia with farmers reporting widespread harvest failures.

KoPi – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi), a social organisation concerned with the environment, has released a list of big companies causing the forest and land fires in Indonesia.

Parliza Hendrawan, Palembang – The bad old practices of the New Order dictatorship of former President Suharto are still being applied in some government agencies in Indonesia.

Despite repeated pledges by the government that it will put an end to the massive forest fires sweeping across Riau, Kalimantan and Sumatra, which have been widely blamed on big and usually politically connected wood pulp and palm oil companies clearing land ahead of the planting season, the choking haze blanketing a large swathe of South-East A

Environmental activists say that in order to avoid legal liability for the massive forest fires sweeping across Riau, Sumatra and Kalimantan, big palm oil and wood pulp companies pay local people to start fires that conveniently spread onto their concession areas providing a cheap way to clear land ahead of the planting season.