At least 50 people have been killed by flash floods in Indonesia's eastern Papua province.

Jakarta – While the government stated last week that it would soon issue a new regulation on low-emission incentives to boost the development of electric vehicles, it seems the process

Bandung (Java) – At least two people were killed and six more were missing after torrential rains and severe flooding hit parts of Indonesia, the country's disaster agency said yesterd

Jakarta – Jakarta ranks first as city with the worst air quality in Southeast Asia last year, a recent study has shown.

Arya Dipa and Ganug Nugroho Adi, Bandung, Surakarta and Jakarta – More than 22,000 families in 10 districts of Bandung, West Java, have been affected by water from the Citarum River th

Jakarta – Up to 143 neighborhood units (RT) were flooded after heavy rains lashed the capital on Tuesday, the Jakarta administration said.

Kharishar Kahfi, Arya Dipa, Nedi Putra AW and Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta, Bandung, Malang, and Medan – The government set an ambitious target to reduce household waste in 2017 following

Markus Makur, Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara – The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) administration undertook a massive trash clean-up drive in popular national parks on Monday to leverage momentum

Kharishar Kahfi, Nedi Putra and Arya Dipa, Jakarta, Malang and Bandung – For residents of Malang in East Java, the Supit Urang landfill is bad luck, having faced a spate of misfortunes

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Jakarta – Dozens of neighborhoods across Jakarta were inundated on Saturday morning following heavy downpour in the upstream area of Bogor in West Java since Friday afternoon.

Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – The Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) chairman Tulus Abadi said that Aprindo should take more progressive plan in applying paid plastic bag, which is

Starting today, minimarkets AKA convenience stores across Indonesia are charging a nominal fee for every plastic bag customers use to carry their purchases.

Jakarta – The city administration of Depok in West Java has warned companies that they may have their business permits revoked for polluting lakes and rivers.

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Environment and Forestry Ministry received eight reports related to companies that dumping industrial waste to Cileungsi River, and so one of them has undergone c

Jakarta – To reduce plastic consumption in Jakarta, the administration has called on residents to start carrying their own tumblers instead of buying bottled water.

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – Eating fish and mussels from Jakarta Bay is dangerous because of toxic and hazardous compounds (B3) that damage fish organs and paralyze mussels, an expert has s

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The fate of the government's ambitious program to clean up the Citarum River – the longest and dirtiest river in West Java – has been mired by the late disbursemen

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – The concept of a low carbon footprint in buildings has long been around in Indonesia, but it has yet to gain traction to the point where developers, buyers and

Jakarta – The administration of Bogor in West Java has significantly reduced plastic waste through a policy banning plastic bags at many retailers, which has been in place since Dec.

Joy Muchtar, Bali – Tirta Investama, the company that produces Indonesia's oldest and most popular bottled water product Aqua, has just launched the first water bottle in Indonesia mad

Indonesia was hammered by some 2,374 natural disasters last year, the biggest and most deadly being the 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit Sulawesi in late September and kil

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – The Central Sulawesi provincial administration plans to build memorial parks in areas affected by earthquake-triggered soil liquefaction in Palu and Sigi regenc

Jakarta – Environmentalists have called on the government to fulfill its promise to strictly regulate crude palm oil (CPO) production to assure that the major export commodity is devel

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Chandra Kristianto, 41, has never witnessed a flood like the one on Saturday night in the eight years he has lived in Jatiendah, Bandung, West Java.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Heavy rains in Bandung, West Java and its surrounding areas on Saturday night caused the dam holding the Cinambo River in Pasar Jati, Bandung regency to burst, res

Jakarta – The East Nusa Tenggara administration has agreed to release a tanker owned by PT Ocean Tangker after the company pledged to compensate for damages to coral reefs it had cause

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – The Central Sulawesi administration will need at least three years to rehabilitate areas most affected by recent natural disasters, including Palu, Sigi, Dongga

Stefanno Reinard Sulaiman, Jakarta – Only about one-fifth of the 51-member commission in charge of deliberating the draft law on renewable energy attended a scheduled deliberation hear

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – Central Sulawesi Governor Longki Djanggola on Wednesday revealed the result of the administration's final count of victims in recent deadly disasters in the pro

Arya Dipa and Kharishar Kahfi, Bandung and Jakarta – In January last year, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said the key to settle all the environmental problems of the Citarum River – t

Jakarta – The government has targeted Rp 500 billion (US$35.49 million) in revenue from plastic taxes as stated in the 2019 state budget, but the plan to issue a regulation on the issu

Jakarta – At least 68 people have been killed and nearly 7,000 forced to take refuge in emergency shelters after floods, landslides and a tornado battered the Indonesian island of Sula

Jakarta – Floods and landslides that hit 12 regencies and one city across South Sulawesi last week have killed at least 68 people and displaced about 6,700 others, the National Disaste

Jakarta – Torrential rains that overwhelmed a dam and caused landslides have killed at least six people and displaced hundreds in the central Indonesian district of Gowa, an official s

Jakarta – Six people died and 10 went missing in a flood that hit Makassar City and six other districts in South Sulawesi on Tuesday.

Pisang Batu River, Indonesia – Boys played and chatted on a rickety wooden ramp under a baking sun in West Java, while just below their feet flowed one of Indonesia's most horribly pol

Jakarta – Environmental activist Eva Bande and a local group from Central Java, Sedulur Sikep, have won the prestigious human rights Yap Thiam Hien award for their roles in agrarian co

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – A string of deadly tsunamis and earthquakes that devastated Indonesia last year has served as a wake-up call for the government to go the extra mile i

Jakarta – The Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) has called on the Financial Services Authority (OJK) to revoke a regulation on a 0 percent down payment loan for purchasing cars an

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia was rattled by more than 11,500 earthquakes last year, almost double the annual average of the past decade, according to the nation's meteorological age

Jakarta – The Jakarta Environment Agency is questioning twelve cooking oil producers operating in the city over the discovery of several mounds suspected to be filled with hazardous an

Trash-filled waterways are quite a common sight in Indonesia, but a village in the Bekasi Regency of West Java managed to make headlines around the country for letting their water poll

Winny Tang, Jakarta – Detergent manufacturers and the laundry industry have said they would work with the government in pushing for better product standardization to solve the pollutio

Jakarta (Antara) – High rainfalls in the past few days have caused floods and landslides in several parts of Jayapura city, Papua Province, on Saturday night.

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – Thirty-one bodies have been retrieved from the site of a landslide in Sirnaresmi village, Sukabumi regency in West Java seven days after the disaster hit th

Kupang (Antara) – Oil tanker Ocean Princess that sank in the vicinity waters off Aemoli Village in eastern Indonesia on December 22, 2018 has affected the marine life of Pantar Strait

Jakarta – Several soil mounds containing hazardous and toxic (B3) waste have been found near the Marunda low-cost apartments in Cilincing, North Jakarta.

Nadine Freischlad – West Java is the heartland of Indonesian manufacturing, and industrial zones on the outskirts of the provincial capital city, Bandung, are, according to the Ministr

Jakarta's ban on single-use plastic bags (locally known as kresek) is expected to be passed and enforced in early 2019, but Governor Anies Baswedan says he doesn't want to be rushed in