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.
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February 11, 2019
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
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 – Six people died and 10 went missing in a flood that hit Makassar City and six other districts in South Sulawesi on Tuesday.
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
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 (Antara) – High rainfalls in the past few days have caused floods and landslides in several parts of Jayapura city, Papua Province, on Saturday night.
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
Jakarta – Despite their dependence on plastic bags, Jakartans mostly agree with the city administration's plan to issue a policy restricting plastic bag use, according to a survey cond
Jakarta – Hundreds of survivors of the Sunda Strait tsunami that hit Banten and South Lampung on Dec.
January 2, 2019
Jakarta – A landslide that crashed on to a hilly village on Indonesia's main island of Java buried 30 houses and killed at least 15 people, officials say.
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Jakarta – Secondary landslides are impeding search and rescue efforts at a landslide that caused fatalities in Sukabumi, West Java, where 20 people are still missing after 66 were save
January 1, 2019
Jakarta – Soldiers, police and residents fanned out across a damaged Indonesian village Tuesday, searching in the mud for possible victims of a landslide caused by torrential rain that
December 31, 2018
Theresia Sufa, Bogor, West Java – Indramayu has become among the few regencies to adopt environmental education curriculum in schools.
December 30, 2018
Jakarta – Banten Police have charged three people connected to Drajat Prawiranegara Hospital in Serang, Banten, for allegedly charging illegal levies for delivering the bodies of Sunda
December 29, 2018
Rob McBride, Banten, Indonesia – Ahmad Hidayat's smile seemed strangely incongruous given the mess that lay around him.
December 28, 2018
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Devina Heriyanto and Gemma Holliani Cahya, Jakarta – At least 4,231 people died or were declared missing during natural disasters across the archipelago this year, making it the deadlie
December 27, 2018
Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – Just four days after the Sunda Strait tsunami devastated homes in Serang, Banten, floodwater engulfed two villages in the regency on Wednesday, inundati
December 26, 2018
Jamie Fullerton, Banten – The Indonesia authorities have warned that the tsunami-ravaged coast of western Java could be hit by further dangerous waves as volcanic activity continued in
Amilia Rosa & Niniek Karmini, Sumur, Indonesia – Panicked residents, police and soldiers in this remote fishing village hit by a devastating weekend tsunami ran to higher ground lat
Ian Pannell, Banten, Indonesia – "God gave to us, he took away, but he will give to us again."
Jamie Fullerton, Banten – Solihat and her three friends had everything sorted for their perfect selfie, ready to be taken by the beach in Indonesia's Banten province.
Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Hundreds of Aceh residents flocked to the Siron mass grave in Lambaro, Aceh Besar, to pay respect to victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsun
Thousands prayed at mass graves Wednesday to mark the 14th anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, one of the worst natural disasters in history, even as aid workers raced to help v
December 25, 2018
Jamie Fullerton in Banten province, Indonesia – Search efforts for the 154 people still missing in the disaster zone of the deadly tsunami that has killed at least 429 people continued
Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Four months after activists in Bali celebrated what they believed was the end of a controversial plan to develop part of the island's mangrove-rich Benoa Bay, t
Jakarta – Bali has taken a big step to curb pollution in its seas, enacting a ban on troublesome single-use plastics like shopping bags, styrofoam and straws.
Michael Bachelard & Amilia Rosa – Australia has offered to give assistance to Indonesia after a tsunami killed 429 people and counting, but the Indonesian authorities have said they
December 24, 2018
James Massola, Tanjung Lesung – Tanjung Lesung is a famous Indonesian beach resort that bills itself as the "gateway to Krakatoa", the volcano that triggered Saturday's tsunami.
Jakarta – The deadly earthquake and tsunami that struck Central Sulawesi at the end of September this year should have been ample reason for the government to take immediate action to i