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Jakarta — The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has criticised government efforts to overcome air pollution headed up by Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan.
The government has highlighted a number of issues such as reducing (...)
Jakarta — The Jakarta Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) is urging central and regional governments not to show favouritism in acting against business owners that contribute to air pollution.
Walhi Jakarta campaigner Muhammad Aminullah said that the government must be transparent (...)
On Sunday August 13, based on data from the IQAir air quality monitoring website at 6 am, the Air Quality Index (AQI) in Jakarta stood at 170 or in the unhealthy category, with high levels of PM2.5 pollutants. Over the last few weeks, the IQAir website has recorded Jakarta as being the most (...)
Greenpeace Indonesia says that around 93 percent of Jakarta residents are breathing dangerously polluted air with particulate matter content five times the safe limit set by the World Health Organisation (WHO), namely 5 micrograms per cubic metre.
The average annual concentration of (...)
The move of Indonesia’s capital city from Jakarta to Nusantara on Borneo cannot erase the socio-ecological cost of environmental damages, despite the claims of sustainability and economic growth for the new capital city. The prospect of physically shifting to a different landscape allows a (...)
Jakarta — The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) says that the claim by Environment and Forestry Minister (LHK) Siti Nurbaya Bakar that deforestation is acceptable for the sake of constructing roads is difficult to accept.
Walhi Food, Water and Essential Ecosystem Campaign Manager (...)
Jakarta — Greenpeace Indonesia says that the claims made by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo when speaking at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday November 1 were empty talk.
Greenpeace Indonesia forest campaign spokesperson M Iqbal Damanik (...)
While the stark reality of the global climate emergency struck home in Australia with its worst bushfire season, its neighbour Indonesia faced catastrophic floods and islands disappearing below the rising sea. Green Left’s Peter Boyle interviewed Yuyun Harmono, the climate change campaigner of (...)
Sumatran rhinoceros (Shutterstock/Handoko Ramawidjaya Bumi)
The population of the Sumatran rhinoceros in the regencies of West Kutai and Mahakam Ulu, East Kalimantan, is believed to have fallen to just 12 to 15 animals.
The head of the East Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation Agency (...)
Petitions on environmental issues dominated Indonesia’s digital movements in 2018 with the number of people signing them having increased by 17 times compared to last year, according to online petition platform change.org.
Indonesia‘s change.org director, Arief Aziz, said this year was (...)
Bitung — Twelve activists have been arrested following a peaceful action by Greenpeace activists and four members of the band Boomerang who occupied a palm oil supply ship and refinery in Bitung, North Sulawesi operated by a unit of Singapore’s Wilmar International.
To foreign activists (...)
Jakarta – Indonesia’s President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo has partially frozen new palm oil concessions in Indonesia for the next three years. The moratorium only applies to land controlled by the Ministry of Forestry and does not cover land controlled by regional government or forest within (...)
The multiyear rehabilitation project in the Citarum River in West Java is set to become another arena for Japan and China to flex their financial muscle, as the two global powerhouses eye a stake in what has been labelled as Indonesia’s most ambitious environmental project to date.
For now, (...)
Insights from Indonesian Energy Politics
We have to talk about justice when discussing the transformation of energy politics. The capitalist system is voraciously longing for permanent economic growth. Our society is comfortably dazzled by the false promise of infinite (fossil) resources. (...)
Harvard and Columbia universities estimate tens of thousands of premature deaths in areas closest to blazes clearing forest and peatland.
A smog outbreak in Southeast Asia last year may have caused over 100,000 premature deaths, according to a new study released Monday that triggered calls (...)
A great tract of Earth is on fire and threatened species are being driven out of their habitats. This is a crime against humanity and nature.
I’ve often wondered how the media would respond when eco-apocalypse struck. I pictured the news programmes producing brief, sensational reports, (...)
Months of uncontrolled forest fires catapult Indonesia above China and US as biggest global climate polluter, as president vows to tackle toxic smog.
Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, arrived in South Sumatra on Thursday, pledging to tackle the raging forest fires that have engulfed the (...)
June 26, 2009 – Hobart, Tasmania — Along with over 400 other people, I turned up to the Wrest Point Casino here to attend the premiere of The Burning Season on June 1. I had the film’s headline — “As inspiring as The Inconvenient Truth was frightening” in the back of my mind, hoping for a (...)
Despite endorsement by a tame certifier, Southeast Asia’s miracle oil faces trouble.
Just outside Danau Sentarum National Park, a large and diverse wetland area in West Kalimantan on the Indonesian side of Borneo, lumberjacks working for an Indonesia plantation company are busy felling trees (...)
This is the eigth translation from of a series of 13 interviews with leaders of labour, peasant, fisherpeople, urban and rural poor, environmental, student and social-political organisations in Indonesia around the theme “Ten Years after the Fall of Suharto - Views from the People’s (...)
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