Antara, Jakarta – Floodwaters submerged several areas in South and East Jakarta early Sunday following heavy overnight rainfall, particularly in the upstream region of Bogor, officials
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Gembong Hanung, Jakarta – The government is urging national and multinational companies to take responsibility and do more to tackle the increasing volume of plastic waste, as the count
July 2, 2025
Septia Ryanthie, Solo – The founder of the Ecoton Foundation for Ecological Studies and Land Conservation, Prigi Arisandi, revealed the results of microplastic research in Indonesian ri
Jakarta – As citizens of an archipelagic nation, we often find ourselves lacking awareness, or even feeling helpless, about our water-bound existence.
June 30, 2025
Yovanda Noni, Jakarta – Former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), along with 35 Indonesian artists across generations, have collaborated to release a music video titled "Save Our
Defara Dhanya, Jakarta – Researchers from the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) disclosed that Indonesia has reached a new level of climate change.
June 29, 2025
Eka Jaya Saputra, Bekasi – The Environment Ministry has sealed an aluminum smelting facility operated by Mandiri Pratama Intilogam in East Cikarang, Bekasi Regency, West Java, over seri
June 27, 2025
Jakarta – The government has revealed that the waste management rate in various regions of Indonesia has only reached around 10 percent, with landfills across the country projected to r
Yohanes Paskalis, Jakarta – The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) has recorded a total of 1,713 natural disasters in various regions of Indonesia this year, as of June 23, 2025
June 26, 2025
Sigit Zulmunir, Garut – Four residents of Kiararambai, Girimukti Village, Cisewu District, Garut Regency, West Java, were buried and killed when a landslide drove soil inside their resi
June 19, 2025
Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP), a major nickel processing hub, has pledged to improve its environmental compliance and adopt more sustainable busines
June 18, 2025
Agencies, Jakarta – Several flights to Bali were cancelled or delayed and the airport in Maumere in East Nusa Tenggara province was closed due to the eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki-lak
June 13, 2025
Andrian Supendi, Jakarta – Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq is calling on state-owned energy giant Pertamina to immediately adopt European-grade fuel standards as Jakarta reels
Antara, Jakarta – The air quality in Jakarta fell into the "unhealthy" category on Friday.
June 11, 2025
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Vonia Vieira, Nick Sas, Doug Dingwall – The smoke from burning waste gets so thick at Delfina Martin's home in Timor-Leste, she and her children struggle to breathe.
June 10, 2025
Maretha Uli, Jakarta Worsening air quality in Greater Jakarta has brought to light the government's unfulfilled responsibility to ensure citizens right to clean air and to curb emission
June 4, 2025
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June 2, 2025
Antara & Jakarta – Indonesian metropolis Jakarta becomes the world's sixth most polluted city as of 11 a.m. on Monday, according to IQAir's monitoring system.
Jakarta – Bali Governor I Wayan Koster has announced plans to ban the production of water bottles smaller than 1 liter, in an effort to address the island's growing waste problem, which
June 1, 2025
Jakarta – A giant bubble became the focus of attention during the Car Free Day (CFD) event at the Hotel Indonesia (HI) traffic circle area in Central Jakarta on Sunday morning June 1.
May 31, 2025
Dede Adhitama, Cirebon – Fourteen bodies have been recovered and returned to their families after a deadly landslide struck a mining site in Gunung Kuda, Cirebon, West Java.
Agencies, Jakarta – At least thirteen people were killed and a dozen injured Friday in a rockfall at a limestone quarry in Cirebon regency, West Java, the disaster agency said, with sea
May 30, 2025
Hendro Dahlan Situmorang, Jakarta – Indonesia is strengthening its national tsunami early warning system by utilizing undersea fiber optic cable technology to detect seismic activity, p
May 28, 2025
Jakarta – The Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) has reported that Mount Semeru, situated on the border of Lumajang and Malang districts in East Java, erupt
May 27, 2025
Fachri Hamzah, Padang – Mount Marapi in West Sumatra erupted on Tuesday morning, May 27, 2025, at 8:22 AM WIB.
May 24, 2025
Jamal Abdun Nashr, Semarang – Flooding from the sea submerged areas of Tanjung Emas Port in Semarang, Central Java, after a section of the seawall collapsed on Friday afternoon, May 23,
May 23, 2025
T. Handoko, Sukoharjo, Indonesia – Sarmi recalls the unusual blight that fell over Gupit village around 2017, when doves and finches appeared to vanish from the sky.
Phesi Ester Julikawati, Bengkulu – Hundreds of houses in Bengkulu were severely and lightly damaged in the wake of a strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck the region early Friday,
Wawan Kurniawan, Tangerang – Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq ordered the immediate shutdown of a steel blast furnace facility in Tangerang Regency, Banten, on Friday after wit
Agencies, Jakarta – A5.7-magnitude earthquake hit near Sumatra on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said, damaging more than 100 houses with no reports of casualties.
Resty Woro Yuniar – A sweeping new ban on small plastic water bottles in Bali has triggered backlash from Indonesia's beverage and plastics industries, even as environmental advocates h
May 22, 2025
Jakarta – Ten cities in Indonesia received Climate Action Plans (CAP) to mark the completion of the Climate Resilient and Inclusive Cities (CRIC) program on Wednesday, which was funded
May 21, 2025
Jamal Abdun Nashr, Demak – Floods have inundated 12 villages in Demak Regency, Central Java, since Sunday, May 18, 2025.
May 20, 2025
Rescuers battle weather and conditions to find missing after storm kills six people at remote mine.
May 19, 2025
Jakarta – Torrential rains forced a halt on May 19 to Indonesia's search for 14 missing in its easternmost region of Papua after a landslide killed six workers at a gold mine and injure
Jakarta – Indonesia raised the alert level of Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki to the highest after it erupted eight times over the weekend, its volcanology agency has said.
May 18, 2025
Six workers in West Papua are dead after a landslide at a gold mine.
May 15, 2025
Anwar Siswadi (Kontributor), Bandung – Floods and landslides struck five areas across West Java following moderate to heavy rainfall on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.
May 14, 2025
Jakarta – Without proper follow-up measures, the move by Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs Zulkifli Hasan and Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq to seal off two housing clus
May 13, 2025
Muhammad Iqbal, Tangerang – Several locations in Tangerang and South Tangerang, which is just outside Jakarta, were inundated by flooding due to downpours on Tuesday evening, May 13, af
May 10, 2025
Michael Neilson, Tropodo – Plastic waste from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, France, the US and Britain is being used to fuel tofu production in Indonesia, the Guardian has learn
April 28, 2025
Defara Dhanya, Jakarta – Scorching hot weather has affected various regions throughout Indonesia over the past week.
April 10, 2025
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With the Islamic month of Ramadan now over, a familiar sight has returned to the streets of daytime Jakarta: street vendors serving up chicken porridge, an
April 5, 2025
Ahmad Rifqi Danwanus, Jakarta – Mount Semeru in Lumajang, East Java, erupted with volcanic ash reaching a height of 900 meters on Saturday.
April 1, 2025
Zacharias Wuragil, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported a series of temblors in northern regions of Sumatra, Banda Aceh City and Aceh Besar Dist
March 25, 2025
Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The change in co-leadership roles after the US quit the Just Energy Transition Partnership or JETP climate funding has little to no effect on the multi-bil
JETP, a financing commitment from rich nations and global lenders to help poorer nations adopt cleaner energy, has earmarked $20 billion to help Indonesia cut its emissions.
March 21, 2025
Jakarta – The misfortune experienced by the people of Menang Raya village, Ogan Komering Ilir, South Sumatra, shows the poor state of environmental management in this country.
At least seven international flights from Indonesia's resort island Bali have been cancelled, an airport official said on Friday, after a volcano in the archipelago nation's east erupte