New data published by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) reveals that the overall 2023 air pollution levels in Jakarta were arguably the worst since 2019. Despite improvements between 2020 and 2022, the rise of pollution in 2023 is a notable setback. Over 29 million people …
Given the increasing impacts of flooding in Jakarta, methods for assessing current and future flood risk are required. In this paper, we use the Damagescanner-Jakarta risk model to project changes in future river flood risk under scenarios of climate change, land subsidence, and land use change. Damagescanner-Jakarta is a simple …
Floods hitting Indonesia's West Java province have killed three people, left three others missing and forced more than 3,000 others to flee homes, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of national disaster management agency, told Xinhua by phone on Sunday.
The Asia-Pacific region "continues to be the most disaster prone part of the world in 2015" and needs a risk-sensitive development approach, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said here Thursday. More than half of the world's 344 disasters in 2015, resulting in more than 16,000 deaths and affecting some 59 million …
APRIL Group has adopted a landscape approach in restoring 150,000 hectares of environmentally important peat forest in the Kampar Peninsula in Riau province, Sumatra, involving multiple stakeholders, including local communities. Indonesia’s peatland areas are some of the most sensitive ecosystems in the world, while the Kampar Peninsula landscape is one …
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of western Indonesia, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reports. There have been no immediate reports of damage. The USGS said the earthquake struck at 19:49 local time (12:49 GMT). It said the epicentre was 805km (500 miles) south-west of the city …
Plastic pollution is a massive problem in Indonesia. The country's rivers and oceans are clogged with waste, damaging both the tourism and fishing industries. Now the government is trying to change consumer behaviour, with shops in 23 cities introducing a fee for plastic bags. It's a trial, before the new …
Patients infected by Plasmodium vivax or Plasmodium ovale suffer repeated clinical attacks without primaquine therapy against latent stages in liver. Primaquine causes seriously threatening acute hemolytic anemia in patients having inherited glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency. Access to safe primaquine therapy hinges upon the ability to confirm G6PD normal status. CareStart …
The El Niño that caused record temperatures, drought and floods over the last year has passed its peak strength but will continue to have humanitarian impacts for months to come, the UN has said. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said the event, which plays havoc with weather systems around the …
The world’s leading body for the certification of sustainable palm oil has created new standards to tackle deforestation, human rights violations and greenhouse gas emissions on certified plantations. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) published the RSPO Next standards on 9 February following rising pressure from industry and campaigners …
Newcrest Mining suspended all mining and processing at its Gosowong operation in Indonesia after the underground section of the gold mine was damaged by a cave-in late on Monday, which trapped one of its workers. Newcrest said on Tuesday it did not know what caused the "geotechnical event", which led …
President Joko Widodo’s plan to establish Indonesia as a ‘global maritime axis’ took a step forward last week as US ambassador Robert Blake announced a partnership programme to help improve marine law enforcement and sustainable fisheries management in the world’s largest archipelagic nation. According to the World Bank, illegal, unreported …
An Indonesian research institute said Sunday it had found one positive Zika case on Sumatra island, adding that the virus has been circulating in the country "for a while". Indonesia's health ministry could not immediately comment on the report by the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology. The mosquito-borne virus has …
Indonesia has a key role to play in meeting climate stabilization targets, with its high contribution to global land use, forestry, peatland, and agriculture emissions. The Indonesian government has set emissions reduction targets of 26% below business as usual by 2020, scaling up to 29% by 2030, and increasing their …
BOGOR (Indonesia): Barely a few days old, perched on a nest of twigs inside an incubator, a newborn Indonesian songbird — cherished for its melodious chirp — tweets weakly as a tiny metallic ring is attached to its leg. The tag shows potential buyers the chick was bred in captivity. …
New advanced satellite maps of tropical countries reveal that more than 90 percent of recent tree cover loss took place in natural forests rather than plantations, threatening ecosystems and biodiversity, research shows. The maps mark a breakthrough in forest monitoring that allows researchers to distinguish between natural growth and oil …
As the government accelerates work on infrastructure projects, the Environment and Forestry Ministry is preparing a plan to improve environmental safeguards in a bid to minimize the environmental damage brought about by the expansion of construction work across Indonesia. Laksmi Wijayanti, the ministry’s deputy assistant on natural resource utilization and …
Marine plastic pollution is an ever-increasing problem that demands immediate mitigation and reduction plans. Here, a model based on satellite-tracked buoy observations and scaled to a large data set of observations on microplastic from surface trawls was used to simulate the transport of plastics floating on the ocean surface from …
JAKARTA - As many as 1,505 people have taken shelters at higher grounds as floods hit Aceh Utara district of Indonesia's Aceh province, a government spokesman said in Jakarta Monday. Due to heavy downpours since Sunday morning, water has overflowed the banks of Pase and Keureten rivers and submerged many …
A magnitude-5.5 earthquake jolted 68 km south-southeast of Namlea, Indonesia at 2322 GMT on Saturday (07:22 Beijing time), the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The epicenter, with a depth of 46.44 km, was initially determined to be at 3.8632 degrees south latitude and 127.2288 degrees east longitude.
An Indonesian government-sanctioned but independent human rights commission has told Japan to carefully review the construction of a controversial $4 billion thermal power plant funded by an Indonesia-Japan consortium as human rights violations during the land acquisition process have been uncovered. “We asked Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and (the …
