Jakarta – Floods triggered by heavy rainfall in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, have submerged three districts and six subdistricts since Tuesday morning, affecting at least 7,213 resident

Rina Chandran, Bangkok – More than 200 Jakarta residents have filed a lawsuit against the governor of Indonesia's capital as they seek to hold authorities responsible over their inacti

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Antara, Jakarta – Minister of Environment and Forestry (LHK) Siti Nurbaya has stated that a rehabilitation of around 800,000 hectares (ha) of land is needed to help to lower the increa

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Heavy rain over the weekend has caused flooding in four regencies and one municipality in South Sulawesi, with at least one fatality.

Jeffrey Hutton, Jakarta – Victims of the recent floods in the Indonesian capital are preparing a class action suit against regional governments, alleging that officials failed to adequ

Antara, Jakarta – Education and Culture Minister Nadiem Makarim has placed a ban on the use of disposable plastic bottles or bags within the Education and Culture Ministry.

M Julnis Firmansyah, Safira Andini, Jakarta – Jakarta Metro Police Chief Gen. Insp.

Jakarta – The central government and the regional administration are busy accusing each other to the cause of the floods that inundated Jakarta.

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck near Sinabang in Aceh on Tuesday afternoon, causing light damage.

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Experts on urban planning and flood mitigation have urged the public to engage in a healthier, more comprehensive discussion about flood mitigation instead of r

M Yusuf Manurung, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia chief Leonard Simanjuntak said the recent severe flooding in Jakarta Greater Area was caused by the climate crisis.

Jakarta – The Indonesian capital of Jakarta will soon ban single-use plastic bags in markets and shopping centres, joining other cities in the region in reducing the use of disposables

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has implied that the majority of the capital was safe from the recent floods, claiming that floodwater only inundated 15 percent of Jakarta at

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Shoppers in Jakarta will soon be unable to carry their groceries in single-use plastic bags as the Jakarta administration has issued a long awaited gubernato

Jakarta – Jakarta Legislative Council (DPRD) deputy speaker M.

Jakarta – The head of Ciledug district has apologized after a video of him shouting at a volunteer as evacuations took place in the flood-stricken district in Tangerang, Banten, caused

A group of Jakarta citizens say they're going to launch a class action lawsuit against Governor Anies Baswedan over what they perceived to be inadequate prevention and handling of the

Mudslides and power blackouts have hampered the search for people missing in massive floods in Indonesia's capital, where more than 60 people have died and some of the tens of thousand

Jakarta – Bogor Regent Ade Yasin gave a "cartoonish" response to Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan's argument that recent flooding in Jakarta was mainly caused by excessive water flows f

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Jakarta's provincial government is facing the prospect of a class action lawsuit from residents impacted by the disastrous New Year's Day floods that ha

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – Two residents of Lebo Village in Sangihe Island, North Sulawesi, were killed after being washed away in a flash flood on Friday morning.

Arya Dipa, Bandung and Jakarta – The West Java administration declared an emergency status on Friday after floods and landslides hit several areas in the province, as well as in Jakart

Max Walden – Indonesia's air force has dropped salt flares on storm clouds in an effort to prevent further torrential rain over the capital Jakarta, after deadly floods ravaged the cit

Krithika Varagur, Jakarta – The death toll from floods caused by torrential rains in the Indonesian capital rose to at least 53 as rescuers found more bodies, disaster officials said o

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Rawa Jati Sector 7 was a bustling area of Jakarta three days ago.

Arlina Arshad – The heavy rainfall pounding Indonesian capital Jakarta and its surrounding areas over the New Year period was "not ordinary" and, when combined with the city's overcrow

Tabita Diela, Stanley Widianto, Jakarta – Floods that killed more than 50 people in Indonesia's capital after the biggest rainfall since records began should be a wake-up call to clima

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Chief of Climate and Air Quality Information Dissemination of the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) Agency Harry Tirto Djatmiko asserted t

Jakarta – The massive floods that hit Jakarta on Wednesday swept away not only waste but also reusable household appliances, such as TVs and refrigerators.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Police are looking into illegal logging as a possible factor contributing to heavy flooding that killed three people and left two missing in North Sumatra's No

Jakarta – Indonesians are no strangers to disaster, both natural and manmade.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – More than 740 neighborhoods in Greater Jakarta and 107 in Banten remain without power as of Friday noon after severe flooding since Wednesday.

Jakarta – A flash food has killed at least three people and injured several others in Lebo village in Manganitu district, Sangihe Islands regency, North Sulawesi.

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – The death toll from floods in Indonesia's capital has risen to 43 as rescuers found more bodies amid receding floodwaters, disaster officials say.

Now that much of the floods in the Greater Jakarta Area have subsided, the inevitable blame game for the deadly disaster has begun, in which it doesn't appear that the country's leader

Erwin Renaldi – Nidya Desianti and her husband had just finished paying off their mortgage and were excited to start the new year living in their new home in Jakarta.

Jessica Damiana, Jakarta – The death toll from flash floods and landslides in and around Indonesia's capital Jakarta reached at least 19 on Thursday, with more heavy rain forecast, aut

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Flash floods triggered by the heaviest rains ever recorded in Jakarta wreaked havoc across the Indonesian capital Jakarta and its satellite cities on the first

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – People are taking to social media to alert their neighbors and ask authorities for help, as the widespread flooding that hit Greater Jakarta on Jan.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – By 7:00 a.m. on Jan.

Dedek Hendry, Seluma, Bengkulu – Heavy downpours starting on Tuesday afternoon have caused the Air Ngalam River to breach its banks, flooding eight villages in Seluma regency, Bengkulu

Ardila Syakriah, Jakarta – Severe flooding in Jakarta has claimed at least three lives and forced hundreds of residents to flee their homes after heavy rains from Tuesday evening to We

Arya Dipa and Kharishar Kahfi, Bandung and Jakarta – Greater Jakarta is not the only region in the country flooded during the new year's celebrations, as some regions in West Java and

Jakarta – Massive floods marked the first day of 2020 in Greater Jakarta on Wednesday after heavy rains pounded the the capital and its peripheral areas since New Year's Eve.

Jakarta – The government is working to mitigate and prevent flooding in regions across the country, especially in Jakarta, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has said in response to the se

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Heavy rainfall caused flooding as deep as 2 meters at the Padalarang underpass in West Bandung regency, West Java, which Regent Aa Umbara Sutisna blamed on the Jak

Hengky Ola Sura, Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara – Dozens of buildings in Egon village in Sikka, East Nusa Tenggara, were left submerged in floodwater following heavy rainfall from Sunday

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – Jakarta experienced on Tuesday night its worst rainfall in over a decade, with heavy rain pouring over the city nonstop until Wednesday morning, causing seve

Yulia Savitri, Palembang, South Sumatra – A flash flood triggered by the overflowing Mulak River in Lahat regency, South Sumatra destroyed a bridge connecting two regencies in the prov