Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on 1 March launched a new $1.3 million partnership, Plastics Innovation Hub Indonesia, to work with Indonesia to tackle plastic pollution in the Indo-Pacific.
Environment
The Indonesian government this week confirmed lumpy skin disease had been found in 31 villages on the island of Sumatra
A new paper takes a look at how effective restrictions by consumer countries are likely to be on influencing positive change in producer countries.
Australia will allow plastic trash to be shipped overseas and burned as fuel under a law introduced last year that banned the export of some plastic waste, the environment minister’s office said, prompting accusations from critics of hypocrisy.
An Indonesian palm oil company stripped of its permit at the start of the year has since been actively clearing forest in its concession.
Although she’s lived all her life near her community’s ancestral forest, Haeriah didn’t learn about the forest growing up because for several generations her community didn’t control it.
Our study of young environmental activists in Indonesia found that Muslim youth activists based their environmentalism firmly on their knowledge of Islam.
An elusive Indonesian crocodile, which has swum around with a motorcycle tyre stuck around its neck for six years, has finally been freed by an animal lover on the island of Sulawesi.
Bandung-born artist Arahmaiani is known for using her art and activism to fight for the environment, as well as in helping local communities to apply traditional methods and wisdoms to develop sustainable farms.
What targets has the Indonesian government set for itself, how were these targets formulated, and did they change as a result of COP-26? Is the government united in its response to climate change? And does Indonesia have the capacity to implement its climate change response framework?
A recent analysis of the legal wildlife trade in the last 46 years puts Indonesia, a biodiversity hotspot in Southeast Asia, among the top 10 exporters of live animals.
Haunted by trauma, survivors of the deadly Mount Semeru eruption earlier this month in Lumajang, East Java, are hoping for a relocation of their settlement to avert recurrent danger.
At least 13 people killed and dozens of others injured after the eruption of Mount Semeru on the island of Java.
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.
