At least 13 people killed and dozens of others injured after the eruption of Mount Semeru on the island of Java.
Environment
Every day, the factory Mohamad Lutfi runs in East Java turns 50 tonnes of plastic waste into pallets.
The controversy emerged after Greenpeace critiqued Indonesia’s deforestation policies and the criticism was said to be untrue.
In the face of the ecological disaster partly caused by throwing away nappies, an Australian couple is attempting to prompt change by working with a village near West Papua’s largest city.
Indonesia is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Perched on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” it is home to 76 active volcanoes. In recent years, tsunamis have pounded the shores of North Sumatra, Sulawesi and West Java.
Three out of five provinces in Kalimantan have been hit by floods, triggered by deforestation and changing climate, over the past month, adding into the latest list of natural disasters that have struck the region this year.
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Indonesia’s foreign minister on Thursday defended her country’s objection to a global deforestation pledge made last week, promising during a visit by her British counterpart to “walk the talk” on climate commitments.
Researchers at Java’s IPB University say Indonesia is doing more to restore coral reefs than any other country on Earth.
Indonesia’s environment minister has dismissed as “inappropriate and unfair” a global plan to end deforestation by 2030, days after her country, home to a third of the world’s rainforests, joined 127 other nations in making the deforestation pledge.
Thousands of people, youth especially, are calling for Indonesia and countries around the world to live up to their commitments on climate change.
Indonesia’s young people are highly concerned about the impact of climate change, with some having started climate conscious movements of their own as they feel that environmental issues are not well represented in politics.
Indonesian miner Bukit Asam is caught between a rock and a hard place. The 102-year-old state-owned company faces mounting calls to shed the very core of its business: coal.
Indonesia’s path toward using entirely renewable energy sources by 2060 includes banning the sales of fossil-fuel vehicles and operating a nuclear power plant.
Dr Jemma Purdey talks to Professor Utarini about how she and her team in Yogyakarta conducted their study and what they discovered. Do their findings bring us a step closer to eliminating dengue?
As the immediate pandemic crisis begins to recede, both countries should refocus the relationship on climate change.
