Ahead of Indonesia’s presidential election on Feb. 14, people from across the country affected by extractive industries gathered at the site of a notorious mudflow disaster in East Java province. The ...

Thousands of Indonesians driven from their homes by rivers of noxious mud linked to exploratory oil drilling may now be forced to abandon their only means of livelihood: shrimp farming. In a case ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing out steam. In the following weeks, ...

According to Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), banks including Barclays, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and Natixis are alleged to still be pumping cash into Energi Mega Persada (EMP) ...

Entire villages have been inundated by the torrent of mud that has flowed since a drilling accident in May, causing an unfolding environmental disaster in the Sidoarjo area near Indonesia's second ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was ...

JAKARTA, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Indonesian firm PT Energi Mega Persada Tbk <ENRG.JK> wants its partners to share the costs of the damage caused by a mud disaster near a drilling site in East Java, a ...

JAKARTA, March 22 (Reuters) - Indonesian energy explorer PT Medco Energi Internasional Tbk said on Thursday it had sold its entire stake in the troubled Lapindo Brantas block in East Java for $100.

Michael R. Hudec receives funding from the Applied Geodynamics Laboratory, an oil-industry funded research consortium supported by more than 20 companies. Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, ...