At least 50 people have been killed by flash floods in Indonesia's eastern Papua province.
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March 17, 2019
March 14, 2019
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
March 9, 2019
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
March 8, 2019
Jakarta – Jakarta ranks first as city with the worst air quality in Southeast Asia last year, a recent study has shown.
March 7, 2019
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
March 6, 2019
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
March 3, 2019
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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March 2, 2019
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.
March 1, 2019
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.
February 28, 2019
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.
February 26, 2019
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
February 24, 2019
Jakarta – To reduce plastic consumption in Jakarta, the administration has called on residents to start carrying their own tumblers instead of buying bottled water.
February 22, 2019
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
February 21, 2019
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
February 20, 2019
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
February 19, 2019
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
February 13, 2019
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
February 12, 2019
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
February 11, 2019
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.
February 10, 2019
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
February 5, 2019
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
February 1, 2019
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
January 30, 2019
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
January 29, 2019
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
January 27, 2019
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
January 23, 2019
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
January 21, 2019
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
January 15, 2019
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
January 14, 2019
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
January 12, 2019
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
January 10, 2019
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
January 9, 2019
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
January 7, 2019
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
January 6, 2019
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
January 5, 2019
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
January 4, 2019
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