At the national level, Indonesia’s Low Carbon Development and One Map policies are supporting and coordinating efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, as well as manage land use planning. In 2019, the national government also launched the Environment Fund Management Agency (BPDLH) that is tasked with managing
Around two-thirds of the Indonesia-produced palm oil is exported, with major international buyers including India, China, and Europe. Despite its economic significance, or perhaps because of it, Indonesia’s palm oil sector has been highly contentious given its profound adverse environmental and social impacts in some circumstances.
The report by a coalition of NGOs documents the human rights and environmental impacts of 10 oil palm plantations in Indonesia that are currently supply to markets in the EU, U.K. and U.S., with
To many Western environmentalists, Indonesia is a study site—a giant lab to investigate tropical social-environmental problems and save the rainforest. Many of my American classmates worked in Indonesia. My own thesis adviser is famous for his human ecology research in Indonesia.
Medical waste from health facilities and households have created new problems. Lina Tri Mugi Astuti, secretary general of Indonesian Environmental Scientists Association (IESA), told an online discussion that Indonesia has 2,852 hospitals, 9,909 public health centers, and 8,841 health clinics.
Climate change will have a significant impact on the water cycle and will lead to severe environmental problems and disasters in humid tropical river basins. Examples include river basins in Sumatra Island, Indonesia, where the coastal lowland areas are mostly composed of peatland that is a wetland environment initially sustained by flooding from rivers. Climate change may alter the frequency
Climate disasters like Jakarta’s deadly flood will continue to exacerbate Indonesia’s urban inequalities. People wade through a flooded neighborhood in Tanggerang outside Jakarta, Indonesia
It is difficult to grasp the immense size and impact of the ongoing environmental and human disaster in Indonesia. The fire and haze could cost Indonesia US$35bn , roughly 4% of Indonesia’s
An analysis of land conflicts involving palm oil companies in Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer of the commodity, shows the country lacks effective mechanisms for addressing these problems.
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