Jember, Indonesia – Syazwan Luftan Riady traces his environmental campaigning to school holidays spent at his grandmother's riverside home in a rural part of Indonesia's East Java provi

Larius Kogoya, Jayapura – Food waste contributes more significantly to global warming than carbon dioxide due to methane emissions released during decomposition, a WWF Indonesia officia

Oriza Joko, Grobogan, C – Java.

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Bali residents are facing growing concern over uncollected trash in the tourist hub, with people increasingly burning rubbish, throwing it into rivers, lit

Rikhul Jannah (contributor), Jakarta – A peaceful Earth Day 2026 action organised by the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) took place in front of the gates to the House of Re

Ichsan Ali, Jakarta – Indonesia will begin construction of five waste-to-energy projects simultaneously in June 2026 as part of a national strategy to address mounting waste challenges

Adi Warsono, Jakarta – Former Head of the Jakarta Provincial Environmental Agency, Asep Kuswanto, has been named a suspect in the case of the trash landslide at the Bantargebang Landfil

Endang Mulyani, Jakarta – Bali is grappling with a growing waste problem, with waste sorting and composting emerging as key solutions, experts say.

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Jakarta – After several years of relatively "wetter" dry seasons, Indonesia is now facing a hot spell that could be drier and longer than usual.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia is entering the 2026 fire season with early signs of escalation, as burned area surges even before the dry season peak and forecasts raise the po

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Antara, Jakarta – The Aceh Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBA) reported that Central Aceh Regency has once again been struck by flash floods, causing two emergency bridges to collapse and

Dede Leni Mardianti, Jakarta – Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) has urged local governments in North Sulawesi and North Maluku to immediately declare an emergency

Agencies, Jakarta – A major 7.4-magnitude quake struck off the coast of North Sulawesi on Thursday, killing at least one person, causing waves of up to 75 centimetres (2.5 feet) and tri

Maudey Khalisha, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has forecast that this year's dry season will begin earlier and last longer than usual, particularly

Banjar, Indonesia – Indonesia's government continues to review mines and plantations in the river basins of southern Borneo, months after more than 7% of the population there was impact

Antara, Endang Mulyani, Jakarta – Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian estimates the government will need Rp130 trillion ($7.69 billion) over the next three years for post-disaster reha

Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto has instructed ministers in his Red and White Cabinet to accelerate waste management programs across Indonesia as par

Aceh Tamiang – President Prabowo Subianto marked the Eid al-Fitr holiday in Aceh on Saturday, where he inspected temporary housing built for survivors of recent floods and landslides as

Rizky Pradita Ananda, Jakarta – Indonesia is bracing for a prolonged and uneven dry season this year as the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) warns that a so-called "Godzil

Naina Rao, Indonesia – A 50-meter (164-foot) mountain of waste at Indonesia's Bantargebang landfill, the country's largest, recently collapsed following days of extreme rainfall that de

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Sovereign wealth fund Danantara has picked Zhejiang Weiming Environment Protection as the operating partner for the Bogor Raya waste-to-energy project, fur

Radhiyya Indra, Jakarta – The government is accelerating post-disaster recovery across northern Sumatra after months of slow progress, prioritizing the construction of temporary housi

Gembong Hanung, Jakarta – At least five people died and four went missing when a massive landslide tore through Bantar Gebang, Indonesia's largest landfill, following hours of heavy rai

Padang, Indonesia – Environmental inspectors in Indonesia say they're continuing to monitor compliance by mining and other companies on the island of Sumatra amid ongoing public outcry

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Agencies, Jakarta – Rescuers are still searching for five missing people after a large stack of garbage collapsed at Indonesia's biggest landfill site over the weekend, killing at least

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Hendro Dahlan Situmorang, Jakarta – Indonesia's dry season could begin earlier than usual this year, with the onset forecast between April and June 2026 and a peak expected in August, t

Reiner Brabar, Jayapura – The Papua Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has issued a strong critique stating that Papua is being pushed to the brink of ecological destruction b

Creative Desk, Jakarta – Many villages that were affected by the floods and landslides that struck three Sumatran provinces more than two months ago have yet to recover from paralysis.

Agencies, Denpasar, Bali – Flooding in parts of Bali prompted hundreds of people, including dozens of tourists, to seek safety, a local disaster official said Tuesday.

Irsyan Hasyim, Jakarta – More than 50 representatives from environmental civil society organizations, academia, and regulatory bodies gathered on February 24 in Jakarta to support Indon

Gembong Hanung, Jakarta – Most cities and regencies in Indonesia are failing to enforce single-use plastic restrictions, a situation worsened by inadequate monitoring systems and budget

Eka Yudha Saputrato, Jakarta – The rice fields in Meurah Dua District, Pidie Jaya Regency, Aceh, which are reportedly submerged in mud as a result of flooding, were personally inspected

Yustinus Paat, Endang Mulyani, Jakarta – The number of people displaced by disasters in Sumatra since late November 2025 has fallen sharply from more than 2 million at its peak to fewer

Apriwan, 360info/Padang – Many observers have linked the Sumatra floods in late 2025 to extreme rainfall associated with climate change.

Ilham Oktafian, Jakarta – Indonesia needs over Rp 2 trillion or around $118.5 million to provide the much-needed social assistance for victims of the catastrophic Sumatra flood, accordi

Jamal Abdun Nashr, Jakarta – Floods inundate several neighborhoods in Semarang city on early Monday, February 16, 2026, as heavy downpours struck the Central Java capital overnight.

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the country's top Islamic clerical body, has issued a fatwa declaring it haram, or religiously forbidden, to dispose of waste in ri

Algi Muhamad Gifari, West Bandung, W – Java.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Flash floods and landslides struck Central Tapanuli in North Sumatra, only two months after devastating floods triggered by Cyclone Senyar ravaged the region, f

Jakarta – A blaze at a pesticide warehouse in Tangerang, Banten, has triggered toxic runoff into the Jalantreng and Cisadane rivers, causing a mass fish die-off and disrupting clean wat

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesia has made progress in managing its mounting waste problem, but officials acknowledge the country remains far from its long-term targets as garbage volumes con

Isabel Esterman, Jakarta – When old mattresses and broken chairs are dumped by the roadside in his neighborhood, Erwinsyah faces a choice: leave them there and risk accidents, or set th

Mahfuzulloh Al Murtadho, Jakarta – Floods have struck Cijayanti Road in Babakan Madang, Bogor Regency.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's steel industry is becoming one of the country's fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions, even as it receives far less public attent

Anwar Siswadi (Kontributor), Jakarta – A landslide in Lembang District, West Bandung Regency, reportedly claimed the lives of two residents in Sukadami Village.