Indonesian coal News

Marchers carry banners calling for Indonesia to reject coal in favour of clean renewable energy, and to honour the commitment made in the Paris Agreement (May 2016). Image courtesy of Break Free via Flicrk (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

As Indonesia, US back away from climate goals, hopes fade to retire coal plants early

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jeff Hutton 20 Feb 2025

Shipping companies face criminal charges after coal barges damage reef in Indonesian marine park

Basten Gokkon 12 Jul 2017

Coal undermines Indonesia’s food production: report

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 6 Jul 2017

Indonesian coal mining firm gets its license reinstated despite a history of violations

Taufik Wijaya 19 Jun 2017

Who owns Indonesia’s deadly abandoned coal mines?

Tommy Apriando 25 May 2017

Papua New Guinea moves to launch new coal mining industry

Catherine Wilson 16 May 2017

Facing oversupply, Indonesia scales back its coal-based electricity plan

Lucy EJ Woods 11 May 2017

Coal miners owe the Indonesian government hundreds of millions of dollars

Mongabay.com 8 May 2017

Indonesian court revokes environmental license for the Cirebon coal plant expansion

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2017

North Sumatra mining chief caught taking bribe in Indonesia

Ayat S. Karokaro 17 Apr 2017

Thousands of anti-coal activists march in Jakarta, deliver complaints to anti-graft agency

Zamzami 29 Mar 2017

Downstream from a coal mine, villages in Indonesian Borneo suffer from water pollution

Mongabay.com, Yustinus S. Hardjanto 23 Mar 2017

Indonesia’s clean coal dreams

Tara MacIsaac 15 Mar 2017

Japanese, Singaporean banks finance controversial Indonesian coal plant

Isabel Esterman 6 Mar 2017

Indonesia’s last stand for a coal industry in peril

Tara MacIsaac 13 Feb 2017

These Indonesian villages are powered by locally sourced sustainable energy

Della Syahni 7 Feb 2017

In response to pollution complaints, a coal plant in Indonesia offered soap and mops

Nuswantoro 1 Feb 2017

An olive ridley sea turtle hatchling, pictured here in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Efforts to conserve sea turtles disrupted by coal plant in East Java

Nuswantoro 31 Jan 2017

Pacitan villagers say coal plant reduced livelihoods, brought little new employment

Nuswantoro 30 Jan 2017

World Bank loans support high-carbon development in Indonesia: report

Isabel Esterman 26 Jan 2017

As construction begins on Java’s Batang coal plant, a divided community faces environmental problems

Lucy EJ Woods 24 Jan 2017

Southeast Asia’s coal boom could cause 70,000 deaths per year by 2030, report says

Isabel Esterman 16 Jan 2017

French bank backs out of financing Indonesian coal plant

Isabel Esterman 4 Jan 2017

Lessons from the $2 billion coal mining lawsuit against Indonesia

Isabel Esterman 20 Dec 2016

Indonesia shifts emissions-reduction burden from energy to forestry sector

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 30 Nov 2016

Pledging to reduce emissions while expanding its power grid, Indonesia walks a fine line

Melati Kaye 28 Oct 2016

World Bank money is helping to finance Asia’s coal boom: report

Isabel Esterman 19 Oct 2016

Laws alone don’t stop companies from abandoning deadly mine pits in Indonesia

Yitno Suprapto 5 Oct 2016

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