Implementation of higher biodiesel mandates in Indonesia, the world’s biggest palm oil producer, is likely to tighten supplies of the vegetable oil, a leading industry analyst said on Tuesday.
Environment
A major Chinese solar panel manufacturing development on an Indonesian island saw renewed clashes in September between a company allegedly controlled by an Indonesian household name and the island’s Indigenous communities resisting eviction.
Military-led project also risks stirring resentment in easternmost Papua region, researchers say.
Indonesia contributes to greenhouse gas emissions but is also vulnerable to climate change.
Climate change, which triggers sea level rise, puts threats on small islands in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), Indonesia, the provincial government stated.
The scarcity of public waste disposal and management facilities in the country has apparently prompted many people to burn their household waste out in the open, creating a whole slew of health problems, according to a global safety charity, which has urged the government to provide viable alternatives to save Indonesian lives as well as the environment.
The European Union’s Deforestation Regulation will impact Indonesia significantly. Musdalifah Machmud, Deputy Minister for Food and Agribusiness, Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Republic of Indonesia, spoke with Euractiv about his concerns.
A move by the Indonesian government to effectively lift a ban on the export of sand has sparked an outcry by environmental activists and some politicians.
Indonesia accounts for more sharks caught in open water than any other country, but fish stocks around the main island of Java are in crisis due to years of overfishing by large vessels using purse seine nets.
While standing on the banks of the Mahakam River in Samarinda on the island of Borneo, I watched an unending parade of coal barges sail slowly down the river.
A new Javan rhino calf has been spotted in an Indonesian national park, the facility’s head said Friday, further boosting hopes for one of the world’s most endangered mammals after two other sightings this year.
Environmentalists in Indonesia are making a renewed call for Australia to stop exporting waste for recycling.
The Indonesian islands of Bangka and Belitung have come under the spotlight for illegal tin mining, linked to what is potentially one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country’s history.
Pope Francis on Thursday invited Muslims and Catholics to push global leaders to confront the dangers of climate change and extremism, and spoke of the common roots of different religious beliefs as he visited Southeast Asia’s largest mosque in Jakarta.
After almost 40 years of living in the Minangkabau region, I have come to realise how little the environment here has changed.
Farmers in Indonesia and Malaysia could see their livelihoods threatened by a new EU ban on palm oil sourced from cleared forests.
