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Greenpeace responds to the Special Envoys’ announcement on stopping forest clearing for rice fields
Jakarta, Indonesia, 9 October 2026. The announcement by Special Envoys Hashim Djojohadikusumo and Mari Elka Pangestu at the Indonesia International Sustainability Forum 2026 should be scrutinized properly. Hashim said that Indonesia ‘does not need to expand further the cultivation of rice in so-called forest areas’, as it has successfully reached rice self-sufficiency three years ahead…
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Residents struggle amid haze in Indonesia, yet government fails to grasp the root cause of peatland fires
About 40 million people across Kalimantan and Sumatra have been forced to breathe hazardous, suffocating haze caused by forest and peatland fires for two months. Yet the Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka administration has shown no serious commitment to addressing the haze’s impact on public health, even ignoring calls to declare it a national disaster.
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Court rejected Indigenous Malind Peoples’ lawsuit challenging a 135-km roadway destroying customary forest
The Jayapura State Administrative Court (PTUN Jayapura) announced its decision on September 18 to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the environmental permit for the 135-kilometer road development in Merauke, West Papua.
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Gastech 2026 Ends with More Fossil Gas Expansion, Not the Energy Transition Thailand Needs
BANGKOK, THAILAND, 18 September 2026 – As Gastech 2026 comes to a close in Bangkok, Greenpeace Thailand expressed disappointment that a conference framed around energy security and the energy transition…
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The Fossil Illusion: Asian Civil Society Exposes the Hidden Costs Behind Gas Expansion as Gastech 2026 Takes Place in Bangkok
As fossil gas companies, investors and governments gather for Gastech 2026 in Bangkok to promote new gas deals and infrastructure, civil society groups and frontline communities from across Asia gathered at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) to bring another perspective to the discussion, exposing the corporate and financial interests behind continued fossil gas…
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Greenpeace East Asia Slams Japan’s Gas Push and Outdated Auto Strategy at Gastech 2026 as a “Dangerous Climate Trap”
Reacting to speeches delivered today by Japanese government officials, including Tetsuya Azuma, Director at Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), at the Japan Energy Summit during Gastech 2026 in Bangkok, Greenpeace East Asia condemns Japan’s push to position fossil gas and fossil-fueled vehicles as drivers for regional growth and energy security.
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Greenpeace Thailand Calls Out Anutin’s Government at Gastech 2026: Stop Prioritizing Carbon Majors Over People’s Lives
Greenpeace Thailand activists unfurled a 17-by-7-meter banner with the message “YOUR GAS DEAL, OUR LOSS” at the opening of Gastech 2026 in Bangkok, calling out the Thai government and fossil fuel industry while challenging their promotion of fossil gas and LNG expansion as a solution for energy security, economic growth and the climate crisis.
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Gastech 2026: Asia’s growing energy needs cannot justify fossil gas expansion
At a time when governments must accelerate a just transition away from fossil fuels, Gastech risks becoming a platform for new fossil gas deals and infrastructure that could lock Thailand and other Asian economies into decades of fossil gas dependence.
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Greenpeace Indonesia and Malaysia: Transboundary haze is not a new disaster, governments and companies must act faster and more decisively
Greenpeace Indonesia and Greenpeace Malaysia are calling for stronger, more transparent and coordinated emergency action to stop the forest and land fires that have once again triggered transboundary haze between Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Greenpeace Clarifies Findings on the Raja Ampat’s Nickel Report
Jakarta, August 16, 2026. Greenpeace Indonesia clarifies findings published in ‘Unprotected Paradise’ report about new nickel mining threats in Raja Ampat, West Papua. Greenpeace has made an error by saying…
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