Grace Natalia Chandra, Jakarta – Indonesia's effort to manage its plastic waste has been hampered with a basic problem for years now: all of its garbage remains unsorted.

Antara, Jakarta – State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Erick Thohir planted and donated trees at the launching of Make Indonesia Green campaign (#BUMNHijaukanIndonesia) on Sunday, to

Jakarta – Green analysts and campaigners have lauded Indonesia's ambitious goals of carbon-emission reduction and medium and long-term programs for transitioning from fossil fuels to re

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore – In the coastal village of Tanjung Kasuari, on the north-west tip of West Papua, there is no garbage collection service, so the locals burn

Jakarta – Indonesia is preparing regulation to help finance a program of mangrove restoration work from sources outside of the state budget, as part of its carbon-neutrality efforts, a

Antara, Jakarta – Kapuas Regency Administration in Central Kalimantan Province declared a state of emergency in the flooding disaster.

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, on Friday said the government planned to construct more nursery centers by pressuring palm oil and mining corporations to do so

Jakarta – West Kalimantan Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) Regional Executive Director Nicodemus Ale says that the acute flooding in Sintang regency needs to be understood i

Tempo.Co, Jakarta – As the 26th session of the Conference of Parties (COP26) to the UN United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Glasgow comes to a close, member

Noir Primadona Purba and Muhamad Maulana Rahmadi – As the world's largest archipelagic country, Indonesia should be showing more concern about the impact of climate change on small isla

Dewi Nurita, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Tuesday commented on the massive floods that devastated the Sintang Regency in West Kalimantan.

Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – Deputy Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara said the assumed cost to reduce CO2 emissions from 2020 to 2030 was Rp3,779 trillion.

Claire Jiao and Grace Sihombing – Indonesia, the world's top exporter of thermal coal, will take a gradual approach in pricing and capping greenhouse gas emissions when it rolls out its

Yogi Eka Sahputra, Jakarta – The vocal government critic and academic Rocky Gerung in a discussion on Wednesday said the statement on deforestation delivered by President Joko "Jokowi"

New York – Deforestation and global warming in one Indonesian province caused temperatures to rise nearly a whole degree Celsius in 16 years leading to an eight per cent increase in dea

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – An Indonesian provincial governor has vowed to crack down on the issuing of permits to palm oil firms after flash floods hit several areas of Borneo, killing sever

Fathin Ungku and Bernadette Christina, Singapore – Indonesia's giant palm oil industry, long a target of global green groups, is shoring up its defences closer to home as it tries to co

The province of West Kalimantan is in the midst of a hydrometeorological disaster of a massive scale, yet those who are at least partially responsible for the environmental destruction

Jakarta – West Kalimantan Governor Sutarmidji expelled 20 representatives of palm oil companies from a meeting at his office because they failed to respond when asked to help dealing wi

Agung Sandy Lesmana and Ria Rizki Nirmala Sari – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo signed Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 98/2021 on the Economic Value of Carbon on Friday October

Jakarta – Activists from the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) and the Alliance Against Climate Change (APPI) were forcibly escorted out of a seminar at the Environment and F

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – UNESCO has renewed its call for the closure of a road running through Indonesia's Lorentz National Park after the nation's environment minister said shutti

Karin Goodwin – Four months before Raki Ap was born his father, a West Papuan cultural leader, anthropologist and musician, was killed.

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – The national disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) recorded that two people died of the flash floods that hit a number of districts in West Kalimantan, as per Thursd

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The British Embassy in Jakarta recently announced a new #350 million – or about $470 million – partnership between the UK and Indonesia in climate investme

Danang Triatmojo, Jakarta – Environmental activists from the Alliance Against Climate Change (APPI) held a counter conference at the Horse Statue in Central Jakarta on Friday November 5

The Alliance Against Climate Change (APPI) held a protest action at the Horse Statue monument in Central Jakarta on Friday November 5 calling on the government to take concrete action t

Hannah Ellis-Petersen and agencies – Indonesia has questioned the terms of a Cop26 deal to end deforestation by 2030, days after joining more than 100 countries in signing up to it.

Heru Asprihanto, Jakarta – Hundreds of activists gathered in the streets of Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Friday, questioning the government's commitment to tackle global warming after

Chris Barrett, Singapore – When British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the British Parliament last week that Indonesia was bringing forward its target to phase out coal to 2040, it s

West Papua independence leaders launched their 'Green State Vision' today (Nov.

West Papua indigenous independence leaders today launched "Green State Vision" at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, pledging to take decisive action to address the climate emergency

Egi Adyatama, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia on Tuesday criticized the speech delivered by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo at the World Leaders Summit at the United Nations Climate Chang

Jack Board, Glasgow – Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Monday (Nov 1) that developed economies need to contribute more funds and share technology in order for his country to ram

Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia says that the claims made by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo when speaking at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotlan

Andita Rahma, Jakarta – Indonesia claimed the level of carbon emissions and deforestation in the country were the lowest this year in the past 20 years.

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – A number of environmental groups have criticized the carbon offset scheme that is set to be discussed in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change

Antara, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) warns of high precipitation that may trigger hydrometeorological disasters as a weak La Nina event is curren

Sheena Suparman, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has pledged that Indonesia is fully committed to controlling climate change, including reducing emissions by 29 percent by 2030

Fajar Pebrianto, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) on Friday issued an early warning on La Nina, which the agency warns could affect Indonesia's weath

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Being blessed with abundant renewable energy sources, Indonesia has the potential to become a climate superpower, according to British diplomats.

Ryan Dagur – A Catholic school run by the Canossian Sisters in Timor-Leste has launched a green school initiative aimed at, among other things, reducing single-use plastic waste that is

Nur Aprilliana BS, Suharto, Medan, N Sumatra – A landslide hit a car carrying five people on Medan-Berastagi highway in North Sumatra province on Saturday night, leaving four people dea

Antara, Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Head Ganip Warsito said Indonesia with its various disaster potentials deserves to be called a laboratory of disaster, i

Abdi Purmono (Contributor), Jakarta – Heavy rains across Malang City of East Java led to flooding, submerging at least 230 houses and disrupting roads in Blimbing, Purwantoro, and Bunul

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Conservation groups are calling on the Asian Development Bank to tighten its scrutiny of a road project it plans to fund in Indonesian Borneo that may pose risk

Konradus Epa, Jakarta – Interreligious groups in Indonesia have held a series of demonstrations outside churches and mosques in Jakarta calling on the government to commit to addressing

Christina Schonleber, Jakarta – Both at home and abroad, plastic waste is a mounting problem that is not going to disappear on its own.

Antara, Jakarta – Rainfall in the moderate to heavy intensity that had lashed many parts of Samarinda City, East Kalimantan since the early hours of today, October 18, resulted in flood

Denpasar – A moderately strong earthquake and an aftershock hit Indonesia's resort island of Bali early Saturday, killing at least three people and destroying dozens of homes.