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September 1, 2022

Straits Times - September 1, 2022

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia's wet season is expected to arrive early in most areas of the resource-rich country, with the peak of the rainy season seen occurring in December to Januar

August 29, 2022

Tempo - August 29, 2022

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – Residents of the Marunda Kepu fishers' village in Jakarta's northern coastal area have undergone a clean water crisis to this day.

August 26, 2022

Tempo - August 26, 2022

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The Indonesian Anticorruption Society (MAKI) reported an alleged smuggling attempt of toxic waste in the region of Riau.

August 25, 2022

JUBI TV - August 25, 2022

Sorong – Due to heavy rains from Monday, August 22, 2022, until Tuesday morning, a landslide claimed two lives in Sorong City, West Papua Province.

August 23, 2022

Tempo - August 23, 2022

Antara, Jakarta – Floods struck Sorong City, West Papua following heavy rains from Monday until early today, August 23, 2022.

August 19, 2022

East Asia Forum - August 19, 2022

Rizky Alif Alvian – As the threat of climate change intensifies in Indonesia, radical activists are weaponising the climate crisis to gain support for their cause.

Jakarta Post - August 19, 2022

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Hundreds of homes in six districts of the North Sumatra capital of Medan were inundated with waters up to 1 meter deep following heavy rains early on Thursday.

August 18, 2022

Straits Times - August 18, 2022

Kuala Lumpur (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From packed mosques during Friday prayers to the classrooms of thousands of Islamic boarding schools, Indonesia's Muslim leaders have been ur

August 16, 2022

Mongabay - August 16, 2022

Tonggo Simangunsong, Medan, Indonesia – On a recent morning in Kampung Nelayan, a village on the northeastern coast of the island of Sumatra, fisherman Heri Gunawan returned home frustr

August 12, 2022

Jakarta Post - August 12, 2022

Theresia Sufa, Bogor– Bima Arya, mayor of Bogor, West Java, said that the administration's move to ban single-use plastic bags in traditional markets faced challenges in its public rece

August 11, 2022

Tempo - August 11, 2022

Antara, Praya – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) declared alert status for drought in eight regencies and cities of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Province due to th

August 10, 2022

Jakarta Globe - August 10, 2022

Jakarta – The residents of Porsea, a subdistrict in Toba, North Sumatra, on Wednesday exchanged waste for groceries in a bazaar taking place at the subdistrict chief office.

Vietnam Plus - August 10, 2022

Jakarta (VNA) – Without the right policies, climate change could cause potential economic damage of up to 544 trillion rupiah (more than 36.6 billion USD) for Indonesia in the 2020-2024

August 2, 2022

Antara News - August 2, 2022

Devi N S R, Mecca Yumna, Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) recorded the most flooding events in one week in the period from July 25 to 31, 2022.

August 1, 2022

The Guardian - August 1, 2022

Karen McVeigh and Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta – Five years ago, Unilever announced a "radical recycling" process aimed at tackling a huge waste scourge it helped to create: billions

July 29, 2022

Straits Times - July 29, 2022

Jakarta (Xinhua) – Three people were killed and four others missing as flash floods struck Indonesia's province of Central Sulawesi.

July 28, 2022

Jakarta Post - July 28, 2022

Dio Suhenda, Jakarta – The country's top Muslim leaders have convened to raise awareness about the impacts of the climate crisis and to mobilize support from the country's millions of M

Tempo - July 28, 2022

Antara, Jakarta – Residents of Bojong Kulur Village in Gunung Putri, Bogor Regency, complained about the pollution of the Cileungsi River.

July 26, 2022

Tempo - July 26, 2022

Rachel Farahdiba R, Jakarta – Divers Clean Action (DCA) founder Swietenia Puspa Lestari stated that fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) producers Unilever, Indofood, and Mayora are the to

July 25, 2022

Jakarta Globe - July 25, 2022

Bali Water, Asia's first sustainable spring water start-up, has formed a strategic partnership with global advertising network Saatchi & Saatchi to launch plant-based bottles and a

July 20, 2022

The Guardian - July 20, 2022

Isabella Kaminski – Residents of an Indonesian island threatened by rising sea levels have begun legal action against the cement producer Holcim.

July 18, 2022

Tempo - July 18, 2022

Antara, Jakarta – Swiss air quality technology company IQ Air on Monday, July 18, ranked the capital city of Jakarta first in the list of cities in Indonesia with the worst pollution by

July 17, 2022

Tempo - July 17, 2022

Antara, Jakarta – The Jakarta Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) reported that 92 neighborhood units (RT) in South, East, and West Jakarta were flooded on account of extreme wea

July 11, 2022

Tempo - July 11, 2022

M Faiz Zaki, Jakarta – The final draft of the Criminal Code Bill (RKUHP) has been written to cover crimes against the environment under Article 1 through to Article 3.

July 6, 2022

Tempo - July 6, 2022

Antara, Jakarta – As transportation accounts for 47 percent of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions recorded in the province, the government has decided to impose several vehicle restrict

July 3, 2022

Tempo - July 3, 2022

Antara, Jakarta – Floods inundated 4,550 houses in Bengkulu city and three districts in Bengkulu province due to incessant and heavy rainfall over the past few days, according to the pr

June 29, 2022

Mongabay - June 29, 2022

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Jakarta's recent episode of world-beating air pollution has highlighted what activists describe as belligerent inaction by the Indonesian government to add

Tempo - June 29, 2022

Mutia Yuantisya, Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission or Komnas HAM called on the Indonesian government to immediately take action on the fate of citizens at the Immigration D

June 23, 2022

Tempo - June 23, 2022

Jakarta (Antara) – As the capital city of Jakarta celebrates its 495th anniversary, the University of Indonesia (UI) student executive body (BEM) reminded the public that the city still

Tempo - June 23, 2022

Jakarta – The Jakarta Environment Office has urged Jakarta residents to wear masks, especially when venturing outside their homes, as part of anticipatory measures against the recent de

June 21, 2022

Jakarta Post - June 21, 2022

Annisa Mu'awanah Sukmawati and Puji Utomo (360info), Yogyakarta – Indonesia holds 6 percent of the world's water potential – fresh water that can be used directly for daily human needs.

CNN Indonesia - June 21, 2022

Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) says that the presence of 21 coal fired power stations (PLTU) in nearby Banten province is contributing to the poor air quality in Jakar

June 20, 2022

Tempo - June 20, 2022

Jakarta (Antara) – The latest data from IQAir, an international apex body monitoring air quality, has ranked the capital city of Jakarta as the most polluted city in the world by scorin

Coconuts Jakarta - June 20, 2022

Say goodbye to the pandemic lull and hello to the fine particulates we get to inhale in Jakarta as life all but returns to full swing in the capital.

June 15, 2022

Tempo - June 15, 2022

Nadiyah Dzakirah, Td, Jakarta – Environmental activists on Wednesday, June 15, rallied in front of the Indonesia Convention Exhibition (ICE), calling for a halt to the production of pla

May 24, 2022

May 19, 2022

Jakarta Post - May 19, 2022

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The alert level for North Sumatra's Mount Sinabung has been lowered from siaga (watch), or level three of the country's four-tiered alert system, to level two,

May 9, 2022

Tempo - May 9, 2022

Zacharias Wuragil, Jakarta – Two regions in Indonesia in the first seven days of May recorded the highest air temperatures that measuring up to 36.1 degrees celsius, which the Meteorolo

Jakarta Globe - May 9, 2022

Yudha Baskoro, Jakarta – Dust and coal ash are polluting the low-cost apartment complex of Rusunawa Marunda in Cilincing, North Jakarta.

Antara News - May 9, 2022

Desi Purnamawati, Resinta S, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reminded the public to be aware of hot temperatures during the daytime until mid-May 20

May 3, 2022

Mongabay - May 3, 2022

Basten Gokkon, West Yensawai, Indonesia – Linani Arifin says she never thought the flapping seagrass growing along the beach in her hometown in Indonesia's Raja Ampat archipelago would

April 26, 2022

Agence France-Presse - April 26, 2022

Jakarta – Indonesia raised the alert status for the offspring of the infamous Krakatau volcano to its second highest level on Monday, a day after it erupted and spewed a towering ash cl

April 22, 2022

Channel News Asia - April 22, 2022

Kiki Siregar, Jakarta – Primary school students in Indonesia are taught that the country has something significant, a tropical glacier in Papua's Jayawijaya mountains which is the only

April 15, 2022

Mongabay - April 15, 2022

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Indonesia, a top greenhouse gas emitter, will need far more than the international funding it has already been promised if it's to achieve its carbon reduction

April 14, 2022

Tempo - April 14, 2022

Maria Fransisca Lahur, Jakarta – An environmental community that is concerned about air quality Bicara Udara discovered microplastics in the air that Jakartans breathe.

April 7, 2022

Mongabay - April 7, 2022

Gafar Abdullah, Sumenep, Indonesia – A coal barge that ran aground in the sea off the Indonesian island of Java remains stuck there, having already spilled much of its cargo and disrupt

April 3, 2022

SBS News - April 3, 2022

In April last year, heavy rainfalls from Cyclone Seroja caused flash flooding and landslides across Timor-Leste, destroying tens of thousands of homes and killing 48 people, with 14 sti

March 30, 2022

Tempo - March 30, 2022

Ahmad Fikri, Bandung – West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil inaugurated reinvented toilet dubbed Torang (toilet daur ulang) that is developed near Citarum River, in Pasirluyu, Bandung City.

March 25, 2022

Jakarta Post - March 25, 2022

Rimar Andhika, Jakarta – One of Indonesia's most famous mountain peaks will lose its snow soon according to Indonesia's Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG).

March 18, 2022

Straits Times - March 18, 2022

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesia's weather agency said on Friday (March 18) rainfall in the resource-rich country will normalise this year after a wet 2021, but the dry season will start l