A surreal, blood-red river has inundated the Indonesian village of Jenggot in the wake of floods hitting a nearby textiles factory, causing a frenzy on social media.
Environment
Palm oil-driven deforestation is slowing down in Southeast Asia in 2020 but a handful of low-profile companies continue to drive the majority of the destruction, according to a new analysis.
A millions-strong coalition of young people worldwide united by their love for K-pop stars — also known as idols — are increasingly participating in political and social activism across the globe.
Environmental disasters are not unusual for Indonesia, but in the first three weeks of the new year the country recorded 185. And environmentalists say forest destruction and climate change are impacting their severity.
The end of last year brought one more occasion to use the word “unprecedented” when the leaders of 14 countries put forward a new ocean action agenda underpinned by sustainably managing 100% of national waters.
Indonesia’s ambitious biodiesel programme will increase the risks of deforestation as more tropical forest could be cleared to grow palm oil, environmentalists have warned.
Indonesia’s fishermen say foreign vessels trawling illegally in the North Natuna Sea have become bolder, and are calling on the government to step up patrols and to sink or seize such boats.
Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano on Java island erupted on January 27, sending up a cloud of ash and prompting authorities to warn of the risk of lava flows reaching roads, officials said.
Green energy played a proportionally bigger role in Indonesia last year but still fell short of the government’s expectations as the COVID-19 pandemic hit demand and investments.
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo on Monday (Jan 18) travelled to South Kalimantan to witness what he described as possibly the worst flooding in 50 years in the area.
Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated and more than a dozen have been killed in recent days in flooding on Indonesia’s Borneo island officials said Sunday.
At least 73 people have been killed after an earthquake struck Indonesia’s West Sulawesi province on Friday, the latest in a string of disasters to hit the Southeast Asian country.
Jakarta is the world’s tenth most congested city. It’s so congested you might not even notice when half the cars are missing. Today it’s the odds; car license plates – all ending in ones, threes, sixes and nines – are shuttered inside garages or parked on streets. Tomorrow, the same will be true of the even-numbered plates.
On the second day of 2021, a whale shark drifted into Kendari Bay, in eastern Indonesia, and became trapped when the tide quickly turned.
Two landslides triggered by heavy rain in Indonesia left at least 11 dead and 18 injured, officials said Sunday.
Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed avalanches of hot clouds Thursday morning as more than 500 residents were evacuated from its fertile slopes.
