On a grass verge by a road dissecting miles of rice fields in Central Java province, a group of volunteers with ‘Aisyiyah, Indonesia’s oldest Islamic women’s movement, walk along a row of mahogany, sengon, and teak trees they recently planted.
Environment
Analysis of cave art at 11 sites at Maros-Pangkep, in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, indicates that rising global temperatures and severe weather events are creating conditions leading the rock surfaces to break up.
Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, plagued by pollution, flooding and heatwaves, topped the ranking of more than 400 large cities with a total population of 1.5 billion at “high” or “extreme” risk.
The Indonesian platform, called Sustainable Spices Initiative Indonesia (SSI Indonesia), aims to boost spice agriculture and distribution with strategic collaboration among stakeholders.
An environmental expert in Indonesia has warned against a government plan to relocate mangrove trees along the north coast of the island of Java to make way for a highway and levee project.
Indonesian farmer Albertus Wawan hopes a new government regulation means the small plot of land where he grows palm oil trees in a forest reserve on Borneo may be recognised as a legal plantation and eligible to access funding.
The National Development Planning Agency, or Bappenas, revealed that achieving net-zero emission would help Indonesia save the environment and escape the middle-income Read more
Indonesia has officially agreed to co-chair an international alliance that brings together producers and consumers of forest agriculture and commodities.
Indonesian farming numbers have been falling but Covid-19 has brought some youth back to agriculture.
Greenpeace has warned that left unchecked, forest clearance in Papua could undo Indonesia’s progress in tackling climate change, with a report that looks at systematic violations on plantation and forest release permits.
Fintech is playing an important role in helping digital entrepreneurs tap into growth opportunities in Indonesia’s developing communities some new research shows.
An ambitious Indonesian project to create a single database of the country’s land area and stop conflicts is destined to flounder unless it includes maps created by indigenous communities, advocates said on Wednesday.
As a result of climate change, the average sea surface temperature in affected water areas has increased to 30 degrees Celsius from 26 degrees. And the periods between tropical cyclone cycles are getting shorter.
UN rights experts have raised alarm over forced evictions and threats against human rights defenders to make way for a $3 billion tourism project on the Indonesian island of Lombok.
A year passed, and everything seemed to be okay—until one day in September 2019, my fellow villager, Syarif, could not hold his temper after finding out his priceless rubber plantation had been cleared by bulldozers without his consent.
Indonesia’s Environment Ministry said the rate of deforestation had been cut by 75 per cent last year by controlling forest fires more effectively and limiting clearing of woodland. However environmental groups are sceptical.
