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.
Environment
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.
Indonesia is intensifying its efforts to counter the European Union’s Deforestation-Free Regulation (UEDR), which aims to block products linked to deforestation from entering the European market.
Indonesia and Japan have committed to cooperate in tackling global challenges such as climate change, waste management and conservation efforts to support environmental sustainability, Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said following a recent meeting with her Japanese counterpart Yagi Tetsuya.
The IndOz Conference was held in Brisbane with an intriguing discussion about sustainable development.
Indonesia is the region’s biggest producer of haze, so why was it the last to ratify ASEAN’s pollution prevention agreement?
Joint venture with LG Energy making batteries for EVs assembled in West Java as Indonesia’s resource nationalism paying big dividends.
Fossil beans about the size of limes have been found in Indonesian Borneo. The ancient seeds could help explain the evolution of today’s rainforests in Southeast Asia and Australia.
Transport connectivity, aquaculture and health were among the topics discussed when an Indonesian parliamentary delegation visited the Australia-Indonesia Centre at Monash Caulfield. Read more
Indonesia has signalled it could include blue carbon ecosystems — carbon-rich coastal and marine areas, like mangroves and seagrass — in its new climate targets. This shift follows years of relying heavily on the forestry and land sectors as well as the energy sector.
Environmental activism remains a cottage industry for the youth who champion Earth’s cause in Indonesia.
