Hundreds of people living in a housing complex 35 kilometres to the south of the Indonesian capital have been forced to learn safe snake-handling techniques to cope with an unprecedented reptile invasion.
Environment
Dr. Protschky traced changing representations of human suffering at the acute phase of natural disasters, from the late nineteenth into the twentieth centuries.
Indonesia plans to start a pilot carbon market as soon as next year, part of its effort to meet emission goals under the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Over 900,000 people reported respiratory illnesses, 12 national airports halted operations, and hundreds of schools in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore had to temporarily close due to the fires.
Glaciers on a mountain range in Indonesia’s Papua region – and a handful of others in Africa and the Peruvian Andes – are an early warning of what could be in store if they fail.
To achieve its emissions target, the government needs public support and participation. One way to do this is by appealing to the smallest administrations, villages, through the Village Fund.
“[The ministries previously] had various figures before we set the agreed figure. But now we have a standardized [figure].”
Indonesia’s mangroves are an incredibly effective tool against climate change — but they’re being cut down to grow shrimp and palm oil for you.
Indonesia’s fabled island is running out of water, with monsoon rains delayed and the tourist industry expanding.
The development risks fragmenting the habitat of endangered and endemic species like the black macaque. Hundreds of families have also been relocated without compensation to make way for the project.
Terrorists in West Java planned to use a biological toxic agent in a bomb attack. What does this signify for the bioterrorism threat in Indonesia?
For divers, the millions of harmless jellyfish in an Indonesian lake are must-see novelties. For scientists, the warmer, more acidic and less oxygenated water is “a projection of our future climate.”
More alarming for Indonesia, climate change threatens not only its glaciers but also its vast seas, which make up around 70% of the country’s area and are much deeper than the height of Jayawijaya Mountains.
The species has now almost disappeared from the wild, and conservationists estimate that only about 30 to 80 Sumatran rhinos survive, mostly on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and on the Indonesian side of Borneo.
Indonesia hopes environmental impact studies for factories to produce battery-grade nickel chemicals would be completed by the end of the year.
Japan has offered to assist Indonesia in accomplishing its ambitious plan of relocating the national capital to the forests of Borneo.
