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'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

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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

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.

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

Theresia Sufa, Bogor, West Java – Indramayu has become among the few regencies to adopt environmental education curriculum in schools.

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

Rob McBride, Banten, Indonesia – Ahmad Hidayat's smile seemed strangely incongruous given the mess that lay around him.

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

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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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Simone Fox Koob – More than 135 years since the island of Krakatoa was destroyed by an explosion which shrouded the world in ash, the Indonesian coastline has been devastated by a tsuna

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.

Harry Pearl, Carita, Banten – Asep Sunaria heard a loud "whoosh" just seconds before a wall of water threw him off his motorbike, swallowing his house and the village he called home unt

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

James Massola & Matt Wade – Indonesia is reeling from its second deadly tsunami in three months after a "high-wave event" inundated beaches and towns on the Sunda Strait between Jav

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Gayatri Suroyo, Cindy Silviana, Jakarta – As Indonesia struggles with mountains of plastic waste going into landfill and polluting its rivers and oceans, business groups are pushing to

Jakarta – Construction workers on a public housing project in Kajhu Village in Aceh Besar, Aceh, were shocked to find 45 body bags bodies believed to be victims of the 2004 tsunami as t

Jakarta – Retail businesses in Jakarta are ready to welcome a regulation banning single-use plastic bags, while business associations are criticizing the move.

James Massola, Amilia Rosa & Karuni Rompies – Born on September 9, a month after a magnitude 7 earthquake smashed the resort island of Lombok, she has only ever known tents and temp

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – Bogor municipality officially implemented on Dec. 1 a ban on single-use plastic bags at all modern stores.

Jakarta – Residents on a string of coral-fringed islands off Jakarta's coast are battling a tidal wave of trash, with more than 40 tons of rubbish collected daily over the past week, an

Jakarta – More than a third of Indonesia's coral reefs are in bad condition, scientists said Tuesday, raising concerns about the future of the archipelago's vast marine ecosystem.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Administration is currently drafting a gubernatorial regulation that will ban single-use plastic bags.

Gregory McCann and Haray Sampurna Munthe – The general public knows about the precarious situation of the world's most recently identified great ape – the Tapanuli orangutan – within th

Jakarta – A team from Wakatobi National Park found on Monday about 5.9 kilograms of garbage inside the stomach of a dead whale that had beached on Kapota Island, Southeast Sulawesi.

Paulina Quintao – The National Director for Meteorology at the Ministry of Transport and Communication, Terencio Fernandes Moniz, said based on the changing weather patterns in Timor-Le

Kharishar Kahfi and Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Scientists have slammed the Indonesian government for giving the controversial Batang Toru hydroelectric power plant the green light, saying t

Basten Gokkon – The Indonesian government is set to make consumer goods manufacturers more responsible for managing the waste from their product packaging, in a bid to tackle one of the

Rizal Harahap and Apriadi Gunawan, Pekanbaru and Medan – Heavy rain in the western part of the country recently resulted in floods and landslides in several provinces, including North S

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Surakarta – The city-owned water company of Surakarta (PDAM Surakarta) has struggled to provide clean water for the Central Java city for the past two weeks as rivers

Indonesia holds the unfortunate distinction of being the world's second largest producer of plastic marine waste in the world, behind only China.

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru, Riau – Thousands of people in Rokan Hilir regency in Riau had to flee their houses after the Bangko River overflowed following heavy rains.

Harry Pearl, Jakarta – Indonesia's quake-tsunami battered city of Palu is facing a public health crisis as torrential rains threaten to spread malaria and dengue fever to the devastated

Muhammad Hendartyo, Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) head spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said throughout January to September 24, 2018, as many as 1,999 disaster

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said eight out of ten new tourism destinations or known as New Bali ini

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Surakarta, Central Java – Residents of Banyuanyar subdistrict in Surakarta, Central Java, have complained that the water supplied by the city-owned tap water company

A billion-dollar hydroelectric dam development in Indonesia that threatens the habitat of the world's rarest great ape has sparked fresh concerns about the impact of China's globe-spann