Fadli, Batam – The Batam Customs and Excise Office has warned the importers of 49 containers filled with hazardous waste to follow the government's order of returning the waste to thei

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – Responding to the civil lawsuit on the capital's pollution, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said that the people behind the lawsuit have also contributed

Jakarta – Residents of Muara Baru, Penjaringan district in North Jakarta are starting to suffer the effects of the dry season and are complaining that their wells are running out of wa

Adi Ahdiat, Jakarta – Indonesia has tens of thousands of hectares conservation areas, both maritime as well as land.

Jakarta (Reuters) – Indonesian members of Parliament have decided to delay confirmation of a government plan for a levy on plastic bags, but the finance minister said she was optimisti

James Massola, Chris Vedelago and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Australian company Visy Recycling was behind the export of a container of plastic waste that is regarded as toxic in Indonesia,

Antara & Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – Switzerland-based pollution mapping service AirVisual revealed that Jakarta had the world's third-worst air quality on Wednesday, when it was categor

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Tired of breathing in some of the world's filthiest air, a group of activists and environmentalists in Jakarta has decided to sue the Indonesian government to take

James Massola and Amilia Rosa, Batam – Indonesian authorities have rejected a 13-tonne container full of plastic recycling waste from Australia after it was found to be contaminated wi

Kate Walton – The end of the Ramadan fasting period is marked by a week-long holiday in Indonesia.

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has invited experts from around the world to take part in studying the little-known phenomenon of soil liquefaction, which devastated neighborhoods

Kharishar Kahfi, Jakarta – The Environment and Forestry Ministry has reported a drop in the number of hot spots across the country during this year's first half from the equivalent per

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – Zero Waste Alliance Indonesia has called on the government to enforce its ban on waste imports, especially plastic waste and scrap, as it has a disproportionally

Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Laode Muhammad Syarif has said that mining violations are likely one of the causes behind the heavy flooding that has

Jakarta – A 6.0-magnitude earthquake in Central Mamberamo regency in Papua was followed by at least 30 aftershocks within six hours after the main shock at 8:05 a.m.

Jakarta (Antara) – Several regional authorities have been reminded to intensify the monitoring for possible forest fires and droughts, as the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Ag

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – Indonesia and other countries that significantly contribute to the world's high carbon emissions must take concrete steps to address climate change, United Nation

Jakarta – A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Sarmi, a district in Papua, early on Thursday morning.

Angel Riadi & Egna Setiawan, Jakarta – "Race for Water," a solar-powered hybrid catamaran, arrived in Jakarta this week as part of a global campaign to raise awareness of the impac

Jeis Montesori & Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – About 8,000 people, including representatives of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, regional governments and residents of 33 subdistri

Kuala Lumpur (Reuters) – Less than half of the garbage produced on Indonesia's resort island of Bali is recycled, with thousands of tonnes burned or dumped in rivers and the ocean, res

Jakarta – The Central Jakarta Environment Agency has spoken about its struggle to clean up the Krukut River in Kebon Kacang subdistrict, Tanah Abang, citing the lack of awareness on pr

Peter Guest, Com, East Timor – Ernesto Da Cruz loads his spear gun and lowers himself over the edge of his fishing skiff, which is bobbing at anchor on a shallow reef off the northeast

Melbourne – Indonesian seaweed farmers were set to seek more than A$200 million ($137 million) from Thailand's PTT Exploration and Production in a trial starting on Monday, to cover da

A group of young people in the Indonesian city of Samarinda in East Kalimantan came up with a creative new way to protest flooding in their city – perhaps inspired by previous instance

Jakarta – The Indonesian Environment and Forestry Ministry said on Sunday (Jun 16) that it will tighten rules regarding paper waste imports, a day after officials said five containers

Lani Diana, Jakarta – Director of the leaded fuel eradication committee (KPBB) Ahmad Safrudin said that the high levels of sulfur contained in several types of fuel have shown direct e

Indonesia has returned five containers of rubbish to the United States and will not become a "dumping ground", officials said Saturday, the latest Southeast Asian country to return imp

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The acting head of Jakarta Environment Agency, Andono Warih, said that the fuel (BBM) residue of motorized vehicles was the main contributor to severe air

Amanda Siddharta, Jakarta – Among the tons of paper that comes into Indonesia for processing from overseas are countless pieces of plastic.

Jakarta – Heavy rainfall in parts of central Indonesia this month has led to severe flooding and landslides, affecting tens of thousands of people, the authorities said yesterday.

Jakarta – Floods in three provinces in Sulawesi have forced thousands of people to flee their houses for higher ground.

Jakarta – Several areas in Samarinda city, East Kalimantan, remained flooded on Monday, forcing thousands to flee their homes to seek refuge.

Rangga Prakoso & Nurjoni, Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has defended the government's decision to build the Batang Toru hydroelectric power plant in North Sum

James Massola, Jakarta – The tiny nation of Timor-Leste hopes to become the world's first "plastic neutral" country, after signing a deal to create a new chemical recycling plant with

Kuala Lumpur (Reuters) – In a region where seas are awash with trash, Timor-Leste is set to become the world's first country to recycle all its plastic waste after it teamed up with Au

Jakarta – Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti has criticized the government policy to import plastics, arguing that other countries including China, the largest pl

Jakarta – Environmentalists have called on the Trade Ministry to immediately revise its 2016 regulation on waste imports, saying it contains several loopholes that have turned Indonesi

James Massola and Amilia Rosa, Denpasar – Australians taking a holiday in Bali are facing a new $14-per-person tax when they arrive on the holiday island from next year.

Jakarta – Floods struck several residential areas located on the banks of the Bekasi River in West Java on Saturday after the river overflowed at the headwater streams.

Ubud – At a glimpse, Bintang Supermarket in Ubud looks just like other supermarkets across Bali.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A resident, identified as Tiarma Situmorang, 65, of Buntu Mauli village in Samosir regency, North Sumatra, has been reported missing after a flash flood hit he

Jakarta – A stretch of the Sunter River that passes community unit (RW) 03 in Cipinang Muara, Duren Sawit subdistrict, East Jakarta, turned blue on Thursday, allegedly because of indus

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – Hundreds of survivors of flash floods in Central Sulawesi's Sigi regency are having a hard time getting basic necessities, including fuel, while their mobility

Jakarta – The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has announced a toll of 30 people killed, six others still missing and losses of around Rp 144 billion (US$10.3 million) in the

Jakarta – According to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) there were as many as 1,586 disasters in Indonesia between January and April 2019, an increase of 7.2 percent comp

Max Walden and Erwin Renaldi – Indonesian environmentalists are calling on Australia to tighten its regulation and enforcement of waste exports to foreign countries, claiming it is eff

Moh Khory Alfarizi, Jakarta – The plastic and plastic recycle industries in Bogor have lodged a judicial review at the Supreme Court (MA) on the Bogor mayor's ban on plastic bags in th

Jakarta – South Jakartans are working hard to clear mud from their neighborhood after Friday's floods.

Jakarta – Residents of Depok in West Java are urging the city administration to widen the waterways in the Sukmajaya and Cimanggis subdistricts after streets there were submerged under