News in English
Circular economy, a business model originating from Europe, has been favored to deal with waste issues as its main idea is to maintain product values through recycling, reuse and re-manufacture with zero waste.
Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI) on Monday (19/6) urges Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency, Sofyan Djalil to comply with Supreme Court’s decision to open Business Use Permits (HGU) on oil palm plantation, in Jakarta.
Ministry of Environment and Forestry and police arrested two illegal wildlife traffickers through social media.
As oil palm transform into strategic commodity in Indonesia’s economics, its management still presented a list of problems, starting from weak permit mechanism, monitoring and controlling lead to the sector prone to corruption.
Jenna Jambeck published a research back in 2015 on Indonesia’s use of small plastic packaging, or sachet, revealing that low-middle class people consume these packaging resulting to pilling up waste in coastal areas.
Coordinating Minister for Maritime Issue, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, said that illegal fishing and marine waste were major issues need to be tackled to prevent damages for human as for environment.
As a nation with the waste to energy technology, Finland had offered cooperation to apply the technology that uses thermal process to Indonesia.
Surabaya administration plans to develop mangrove botanical garden. The area would be planted 250,000 mangrove seeds to cover 4,450 hectares every year.
Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya, said that Indonesia is facing real changes in protecting environment and nature.
Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) have been cooperating with Indonesian Natural Tourism Association since 2007. Unfortunately, based on facts and evaluation, the performances are far from expectations.
Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) teamed up with United Nation Information Center (UNIC) Jakarta and held beach clean up event with hundreds of high school students in Jakarta.
Ministry of Environment and Forestry underlined that Indonesia’s commitment to achieve climate change agenda will not be moved despite of US decision to back down from Paris Agreement recently.
Newly published research on Conservation Letter revealed that half of Javan rhino population in Ujung Kulon National Park was found in Krakatau volcano and Sunda basin.










































