Indonesian seaweed farmers launch class action over Montara oil spill
More than 13,000 farmers are launching a class action over the worst spill in the history of Australia's offshore petroleum industry.
Jewel Topsfield is Fairfax's Indonesia correspondent. She is an award-winning journalist who has been with Fairfax Media for 10 years. Most recently, she was education editor at The Age for five years. Prior to that she was the launch deputy editor of the National Times, Fairfax’s online opinion site. She also spent three years in the Canberra Press Gallery covering immigration, education, the environment and water.
More than 13,000 farmers are launching a class action over the worst spill in the history of Australia's offshore petroleum industry.
Massive fines for Indonesian importers could 'kill' export industry.
Minister's visit reveals free-trade talks a priority.
Australia will restart talks on a trade agreement with Indonesia early next year as part of a push to strengthen economic ties between the two neighbouring countries.
Opportunities for both countries lie in closer co-operation, says a report which Trade Minister Andrew Robb will launch in Yogyakarta on Tuesday.
When Australian Walter Gilmore first became the CEO of Siloam Hospitals Group in Indonesia in 2004 he would feel pretty upbeat after executive meetings.
BHP Billiton is set to ramp up its focus on Indonesian coal revealing it will open a second mine on Borneo within two years as it predicts a rebound in global markets.
The Indonesian government has downplayed a 40 per cent cut in aid from Australia, insisting it had nothing to do with the Bali nine executions and the republic no longer needed development assistance.
The Australian government may have first announced its cuts to foreign aid six months ago, but in Indonesia they are widely perceived as a reprisal for the Bali nine executions.
The Indonesian government's push to increase revenue from the troubled mining industry by 50 per cent this year could force it to rethink bad policies, according to a lawyer from an Indonesian firm specialising in mining law.
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