Environmentalists in Indonesia keen to send a message about the world’s worsening ocean plastics crisis have created a museum made entirely from plastics, to convince people to rethink their habits and say no to single-use bags and bottles.
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Environmentalists have slammed a move by the Indonesian government to let a three-year moratorium on new permits for oil plantations to lapse.
The assessment of the komodo dragon’s new status of endangered seems to be based on an assumption:the risk of sea level rise caused by global warming.
Just as the federal government released its Blueprint for Trade, a conference in Brisbane has heard of how educational providers are looking to take advantage of closer ties between Indonesia and Australia.
It is a triumph of global progress that most infectious-disease rates have trended downward year over year. Dengue fever, however, is a stubborn exception.
Judges order the president and the Jakarta governor to take steps to tighten standards in order to stem pollution.
Some of the world’s oldest and most significant rock art, created by ancient civilisations in South Sulawesi, is being destroyed at an alarming rate due to the impacts of climate change.
Indonesia’s moratorium on new oil palm plantation permits is set to expire as the industry awaits clarity on whether the government will extend the policy.
In tourism hot spot Bali, Mr Agung Wedhatama, who has a master’s degree in IT, decided to become a farmed in 2013 when he was 29, leaving behind the business he had set up.
A consortium of Indonesian companies, regulators, and one university has begun a series of tests on an aviation fuel containing a small share of biofuel derived from palm oil.
Indonesia has ended a deal with Norway on cooperation to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation, due to lack of payment, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Monkeys at the Ubud Monkey Forest began to invade residents’ houses as they started to run out of food supply.
The Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association (GAPKI) has urged the government to help increase the competitiveness of palm oil products, as palm oil remains the country’s most important export commodity, the GAPKI chairman stated at an industry conference.
The Citarum is the longest and largest river in West Java, running 270km through thousands of communities to connect the people, villages and landscape of the most populous province in Indonesia.
There are calls for the renewal of a ban on new licences for palm oil plantations.
How seaweed farming could play a key role in the sustainable development of South Sulawesi.
