Colonial powers once sought to wipe out cloves grown by locals on the island of Ternate to safeguard their monopoly over the prized crop. Today farmers say the gravest threat to their plants is climate change.
Environment
A new initiative has been launched to help communities profit from efforts to protect at least 30% of the world’s oceans by the end of the decade. It will focus initially on tackling overfishing and ocean climate impacts including in Indonesia.
A recent report unveils the environmental and human rights toll of a large nickel mining operation in Indonesia.
In January 2025, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruled in favour of Indonesia’s legal challenge to the European Union’s (EU) restrictions on palm oil, which Indonesia said were unfair and detrimental to its exports.
Waterways are polluted, fish have left, and residents report significant health issues.
As agricultural technology advances, small farmers in Indonesia are being left behind—but a new report reveals practical solutions to bridge the gap between farmers and tech innovators.
The eruption has been rated at level two – the third-highest severity level – requiring a 3km (9,800ft) exclusion zone.
Exploring the depths of the Earth’s vast oceans reveals a world full of wonder and mystery, especially within regions like Indonesia’s Coral Triangle.
Coal-dependent regions have much experience to share on the energy transition, write two authors from China and Indonesia.
Indonesia’s largest environmental group, Walhi, has filed a formal complaint with the Attorney General’s Office, accusing 47 companies of environmental destruction and corruption.
The region’s industrial transformation remains the key for long-term economic prosperity – and the world’s climate goals.
Three people are confirmed dead while another two have been reported missing following an explosion and a subsequent fire on board a commercial tanker in the waters off Indonesia’s East Java province.
A cryptic new species of the honeyeater genus Myzomela has been described by an international team of ornithologists from Malaysia, India, the United Kingdom and the United States.
A renewed plan by the Indonesian government to turn coal into gas or liquid fuel forms has received mounting backlash from climate experts who say it will be ecologically and economically disastrous.
Despite an early lead in EV and battery supply chains, Indonesia must opt for a more sustainable and open growth model to remain competitive.
The Indonesian Supreme Court has upheld a government decision to curb the expansion of a multibillion-dollar oil palm plantation project in the country’s easternmost region of Papua.
