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October 30, 2025

Jakarta Globe - October 30, 2025

Andrew Tito, Jakarta – Torrential rain that lashed Jakarta on Thursday afternoon caused flooding across several parts of the capital, including the upscale Kemang Raya area in South Jak

October 28, 2025

Jakarta Globe - October 28, 2025

Antara, Jakarta – Heavy rain that washed Bogor, West Java, on Monday night caused the Katulampa Dam water level to rise to alert level III, triggering flooding in parts of South Jakarta

October 25, 2025

Jakarta Globe - October 25, 2025

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia plans to use the COP30 momentum as an opportunity to woo foreign buyers into purchasing its carbon credits following sluggish demand.

October 24, 2025

Tempo - October 24, 2025

Defara Dhanya, Jakarta – Deputy Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), Eddy Soeparno, said climate change can no longer be viewed as a mere environmental issue.

October 23, 2025

Mongabay - October 23, 2025

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – "Going to Dubai was an act of desperation," says Muninggar, a 48-year-old former fish farmer from northern Java. "There were no jobs left in the village.

October 18, 2025

Jakarta Globe - October 18, 2025

Jamaah, Usep Adi Wihanda, Jakarta – After enduring scorching heat with temperatures reaching up to 37.6 degrees Celsius in recent days, parts of Indonesia are now preparing for a wave o

October 17, 2025

Jakarta Post - October 17, 2025

Gembong Hanung, Jakarta – Southern Indonesia is expected to experience extreme heat until the end of the year, as both minimal cloud cover over the islands and the ongoing pancaroba (th

October 16, 2025

Jakarta Globe - October 16, 2025

Antara, Jakarta – The Jakarta provincial government is stepping up its response to extreme heat, launching weather modification efforts, accelerating tree-planting programs, and warning

October 15, 2025

Reuters - October 15, 2025

Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has issued a new decree to restart international carbon emission trading after a four year hiatus.

October 8, 2025

Jakarta Post - October 8, 2025

Ruth Dea Juwita, Jakarta – Indonesia has pushed back its peak emissions target by five years to 2035, prompting officials to raise doubts over the country's ability to reach net zero by

October 6, 2025

Tempo - October 6, 2025

Irsyan Hasyim, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry/Environmental Management Agency (KLH/BPLH) has thwarted the entry of 73 illegal containers of electronic was

Tempo - October 6, 2025

Muhammad Iqbal, Jakarta – Residents near the Rawa Buntu River on Jalan Artowijaya, Serpong, South Tangerang, were alarmed when the water suddenly turned bright red last Saturday afterno

Jakarta Globe - October 6, 2025

Rizky Pradita Ananda, Jakarta – The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has warned of a possible weak La Nina forming toward the end of 2025, which could lead

October 1, 2025

Jakarta Globe - October 1, 2025

Iman Rahman Cahyadi, Jakarta – A string of earthquakes shook Indonesia over the past 24 hours, including a magnitude 6.5 quake off East Java that damaged homes and sent residents fleein

September 30, 2025

Mongabay - September 30, 2025

Syahriza Alkohir Anggoro – In 2022, the United Nations Environment Assembly adopted a new resolution laying the first groundwork toward a new legally binding international agreement to

Tempo - September 30, 2025

M. Faiz Zaki, Jakarta – The Jakarta Environmental Office revealed that the domestic sector contributes as the biggest source of river pollution in the region.

September 28, 2025

Tempo - September 28, 2025

Antara, Jakarta – Recent earthquakes in Lampung and East Java have resulted in significant property damage.

September 25, 2025

Jakarta Post - September 25, 2025

Nirarta Samadhi and Ananda Putri Permatasari, Jakarta – "Let alone safe drinking water, any kind of water is hard to come by," the United Nations secretary-general's special envoy for w

Tempo - September 25, 2025

Defara Dhanya, Jakarta – Civil society groups are calling on the Indonesian government to adopt bolder and more consistent energy transition targets following President Prabowo Subianto

September 24, 2025

Jakarta Post - September 24, 2025

Dhaka – Since late August, Indonesia has been gripped by demonstrations rooted in long-standing structural pressures faced by its people.

September 23, 2025

Jakarta Globe - September 23, 2025

Wahroni, Tangerang, Banten – Heavy rain and strong winds inundated Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Monday night, causing minor disruptions at Terminal 3, where water seeped into

September 20, 2025

Jakarta Post - September 20, 2025

Agencies, Jakarta – Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) has erupted multiple times, spewing a column of ash kilometers into the sky after authorities raised its alert l

September 19, 2025

Jakarta Globe - September 19, 2025

Antara, Nabire – The Siriwini Bawah Bridge, which connects Nabire City with Nabire Port in Central Papua, collapsed following a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck the region early Fri

September 17, 2025

Tempo - September 17, 2025

Irsyan Hasyim, Jakarta – The massive flood that struck Bali on September 10, 2025, was not just a natural disaster.

Tempo - September 17, 2025

Adil Al Hasan, Jakarta – Deputy Minister of Agriculture Sudaryono said 30 hectares of rice fields faced crop failures due to Vale Indonesia's oil distribution pipe leak in Lioka Village

Jakarta Globe - September 17, 2025

Sopian Hadi, Denpasar – The Bali provincial government has officially lifted its flood emergency status and shifted to a recovery phase running from Sept. 17 to Dec.

September 16, 2025

Jakarta Globe - September 16, 2025

Antara, East Nusa Tenggara – The joint Search and Rescue (SAR) team has officially halted efforts to search for victims still missing after the flash flood in Sawu Village, Mauponggo Di

September 14, 2025

Tempo - September 14, 2025

Zacharias Wuragil, Jakarta – Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has officially declared the start of the rainy season, with several regions already trans

Jakarta Globe - September 14, 2025

Sopian Hadi, Denpasar – Bali Governor I Wayan Koster announced on Saturday that the provincial government will stop issuing permits to convert farmland into commercial areas such as hot

September 13, 2025

Jakarta Post - September 13, 2025

Agencies, Jakarta – Indonesia is expected to experience a longer-than-usual peak period during its wet season this year, bringing a higher risk of floods and extreme rainfall in many ar

September 12, 2025

Mongabay - September 12, 2025

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Flooding disasters in Indonesia are increasingly traced not to natural causes, but to corporate destruction of peatlands, NGO Pantau Gambut warns in its ne

Jakarta Globe - September 12, 2025

Yohannes Tohap, Jakarta – Indonesia's environment minister has blamed poor waste management and uncontrolled villa construction for exacerbating the floods and landslides in Bali that k

Jakarta Post - September 12, 2025

Agencies, Denpasar – The death toll from deadly flash floods that swept Bali and East Nusa Tenggara, rose to 19 on Thursday, officials said, with five others missing.

Jakarta Globe - September 12, 2025

Hendro D Situmorang, Jakarta – Indonesia's meteorological agency on Friday warned of another week of extreme weather across the country, just days after Bali was hit by its most severe

September 11, 2025

Jakarta Globe - September 11, 2025

Antara, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has sealed off and isolated areas contaminated with radioactive Cesium-137 at the Modern Cikande Industrial Estate in Serang Regency, Banten,

Jakarta Post - September 11, 2025

Agencies, Denpasar – Floods in Bali have killed at least nine this week and affected 600 people, blocking off major roads in the capital and disrupting a busy travel destination, offici

Jakarta Globe - September 11, 2025

Antara, Jakarta – The equatorial Rossby phenomenon that triggered deadly floods in Bali earlier this week has shifted westward toward Java, Indonesia's disaster management agency said W

Jakarta Globe - September 11, 2025

Associated Press, Sopian Hadi, Denpasar – Rescuers in Bali retrieved five more bodies on Thursday as floodwaters receded, raising the death toll on the resort island to 14, while two re

September 10, 2025

Jakarta Post - September 10, 2025

Agencies, Denpasar – Flash floods swept tourist hotspot Bali killing at least six people, with four others missing, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said Wednesday.

Jakarta Globe - September 10, 2025

Ahmad Rifqi Danwanus, Lumajang – Heavy rainfall over the slopes of Mount Semeru, Lumajang, East Java, triggered a lahar flood that reached the Regoyo River on Wednesday afternoon.

Jakarta Globe - September 10, 2025

David Wilson, East Nusa Tenggara – The death toll from flash floods in Nagekeo Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, has risen to five, while five others remain missing as search and rescue oper

Jakarta Globe - September 10, 2025

Iman Rahman Cahyadi, Denpasar – Four people are reported missing and two confirmed dead after heavy flooding swept Denpasar and Jembrana in Bali on Wednesday morning.

September 6, 2025

Jakarta Globe - September 6, 2025

Sukarjito, Jakarta – Indonesia experienced 4,071 earthquakes in August 2025, according to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).

September 4, 2025

Jakarta Globe - September 4, 2025

Surabaya – The Indonesian government has launched intensive monitoring of four companies operating along the Brantas River basin in East Java after uncovering suspected environmental vi

September 1, 2025

Mongabay - September 1, 2025

Elviza Diana, Bengkulu, Indonesia – Yesi held her daughter Helda tightly, but the little one still shivered for days in the tropical heat over Teluk Sepang, a bay on Sumatra's west coas

August 29, 2025

Jakarta Post - August 29, 2025

Maudey Khalisha, Jakarta – PT Vale Indonesia, Indonesia's second-largest nickel producer, is under scrutiny following an oil pipeline leak in South Sulawesi that has contaminated rivers

August 25, 2025

Jakarta Post Editorial - August 25, 2025

Jakarta – The world exhaled a sign of disappointment when 11 days of negotiation in Geneva, Switzerland, ended in a failure to produce the first legally-binding global treaty that would

August 24, 2025

Jakarta Globe - August 24, 2025

Martin Bagya Kertiyasa, Jakarta – Indonesia's Environment Ministry has permanently shut down Genesis Regeneration Smelting, a waste management company in Serang, Banten, after it was fo

August 21, 2025

Mongabay - August 21, 2025

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Thirteen organizations and businesses have launched the Indonesian Reuse Association, or AGUNI, a coalition dedicated to building a sustainable reuse syste

Tempo - August 21, 2025

Ahmad Fikri (Kontributor) – The West Java Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) reported that dozens of houses, as well as educational and health facilities, were damaged in Karawang Regenc