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Forest Waqf Gala Dinner on 22 April 2025, during which the Minister of Religious Affairs attended and our Forest Waqf initiative was integrated into BWI's Satu Wakaf platform.
Forest Waqf Gala Dinner on 22 April 2025, during which the Minister of Religious Affairs attended and our Forest Waqf initiative was integrated into BWI's Satu Wakaf platform.
Environment

Religious leaders seen as most trusted climate messengers, Purpose survey finds

As part of sustainable efforts to strengthen and drive climate action in Muslim-majority Indonesia, global social impact agency Purpose conducted a survey on the perception and attitude of Indonesian Muslims on climate issues. The results revealed several significant insights, including their perception of religious leaders as the most trusted climate messengers.

3 days ago
Environment premium

Southeast Asia’s white-winged duck at critical threat of extinction

Once a familiar sight in wetlands across the archipelago, the iconic duck known as ‘mentok rimba’ is disappearing fast, driven largely by habitat loss and hunting.

6 days ago
Environment premium

Climate change takes spice from Ternate clove farms

"Today... rainfall is high. It's okay for planting, but it's uncertain for harvesting. It's often unpredictable," farmer Jauhar Mahmud, 61, told AFP.

1 week ago

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Academia premium

The importance and challenges of airports in capital cities

The economic impact of airport development on the surrounding regions is often not considered during planning. 

2 years ago
Environment

War-weary Yemenis fell trees for fuel, cash

The sound of an electric saw rips through a lush mountain landscape in southern Yemen, where years of conflict and soaring prices have left people desperate for fuel and income.

2 years ago
Asia & Pacific premium

Dow said it would recycle our shoes. We found them for sale in Indonesia

There they were: a pair of blue Nike running shoes with a tracking device hidden in one of the soles.

2 years ago
Asia & Pacific

Incoming World Bank chief faces tests before he gets to climate

Ajay Banga, US President Joe Biden's pick to run the World Bank, will face a tough slate of issues around the institution's finances and capital structure from the get-go, thorny problems he must address as he reshapes the bank into a force for combating climate change on top of its traditional role as a poverty fighter.

2 years ago
Regulations premium

99 coal plants to kick off carbon trading in Indonesia

Indonesia is nearing the completion of a national carbon-trading mechanism, but for the measure to be effective, the country needs to begin tightening emissions quotas for coal-fired power plants, an expert says.

2 years ago
Academia

Taking a five-step approach to decarbonization in a downturn

Leading companies have stepped up their physical risks analytics and adapted their strategy, operations, and supply chain.

2 years ago
People

When men won't 'get dirty', Nicaraguan women dig for cockles

Every few days, they leave home at dawn to row about two kilometers (1.2 miles) in a fishing boat to the mangroves, where they crawl through gnarly branches knee-deep in mud, digging for the delicacy by hand.

2 years ago
Environment

Jakarta's effort to increase participation in vehicle emissions test pt. 2

Although the governor of Jakarta has issued a regulation obligating vehicles to undergo emissions tests, its full implementation still requires a comprehensive plan from various policymakers. This is part two of a two-part story.

2 years ago
Academia

Many Indonesians still misunderstand climate change – so how can we change this?

Despite the country’s good progress in addressing climate change, two recent surveys have shown many Indonesians do not understand climate change or its causes.

2 years ago
Academia

Developing Indonesia’s circular economy from Bantar Gebang trash mountain

By promoting a circular-economy policy Indonesian people can make Indonesia even more captivating and attractive for tourists.

2 years ago
Environment

Jakarta's effort to increase participation in vehicle emissions test pt. 1

Although the governor of Jakarta has issued a regulation obligating vehicles to undergo emissions tests, its full implementation still requires a comprehensive plan from various policymakers. This is part one of a two-part story.

2 years ago
Environment

'Everything was buried': Brazilians recount storm horror

Ankle-deep in muck, Brazilian domestic worker Patricia da Silva picks her way through the debris and mud of what used to be her home.

2 years ago
Environment

Japan bids farewell to four pandas returning to China

Thousands of Japanese fans on Sunday bade farewell to four beloved pandas which will be returned to China this week.

2 years ago
Environment premium

Rush to save trapped animals in Turkish city after tremor

Rescue workers have saved hundreds of trapped cats, dogs, rabbits and birds in the Turkish city of Antakya devastated by last week's 7.8-magnitude earthquake.

2 years ago
Academia

Change driver behavior to beat Jakarta’s traffic jams

The relaxation of COVID policies adds momentum to tightening Jakarta’s traffic policy. Parking management might help if the public plays along.

2 years ago
Americas

All hands on deck as UN meets to protect high seas

UN member states are meeting in New York from Monday with the aim of launching a long-berthed high-seas treaty, a crucial step toward the goal of protecting 30 percent of the planet by 2030.

2 years ago
Environment

Eco-friendly mud houses make comeback in Hungary

They were long derided as old-fashioned symbols of grinding poverty, but mud and straw houses are making a comeback in Hungary as a low-cost, eco-friendly alternative to concrete.

2 years ago
Americas

Residents near toxic US train derailment told water 'safe' to drink

The cargo train derailment sparked a massive fire and triggered the release of toxic fumes, including from vinyl chloride, a colorless gas deemed carcinogenic by the US National Cancer Institute.

2 years ago
Art & Culture premium

Colombia's bull fighting custom under fire for animal abuse

Colombia's bull-fighting is hugely popular, but some politicians want it banned and have submitted a bill to parliament looking to do so.

2 years ago
Academia premium

The (not so) impossible task of archiving Indonesia's mega biodiversity

Revealing and recording all of Indonesia’s mega biodiversity thoroughly is of course a very complicated task.

2 years ago
Academia

How much plastic are we ingesting?

Measuring microplastics in humans is challenging, but researchers already have preliminary figures.

2 years ago
Academia

With cash infusion, developing nations boost sun-dimming research

Stepping into a "minefield" about how to slow global warming, scientists in developing nations have won new funds to study whether dimming sunshine by mimicking volcanic eruptions can be a sufficiently safe way to temporarily cool a hotter planet.

2 years ago
Asia & Pacific

Australia denies permission for coal mine near Great Barrier Reef

The Central Queensland Coal owned mine is in the Styx Coal Basin, just off the coast of central Queensland.

2 years ago
Environment

Protecting 30 percent of oceans a huge challenge for the planet

How do we go from protecting eight percent of marine areas to 30 percent in less than 10 years? This question is at the heart of a global forum in Canada this weekend.

2 years ago
Environment premium

Endangered monarch butterflies face perilous storm

As devastating storms pounded California, nature lovers feared for endangered monarch butterflies that winter there as part of a seemingly magical migration pattern.

2 years ago
Archipelago

Sumatran tiger captured in Aceh after second human attack

It comes after two separate tiger attacks in the same Sumatran town over the past week left at least four people seriously injured.

2 years ago
Environment

Relentless sex drive may threaten survival of quolls

For male northern quolls, sex is a death sentence.

2 years ago
Entertainment

Politics, cash, fame: what motivates climate change deniers

Experts interviewed by AFP outlined six key things that motivate people to deny climate change or seek to delay action.

2 years ago
Environment

Climate disinfo surges in denial, conspiracy comeback

Popular topics included the false claims that CO2 does not cause climate change or that global warming is not caused by human activity, said Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD), a coalition of campaigners, in a report.

2 years ago
Society premium

EU's green policy a priority for ASEAN

The EU's ambassadors to Indonesia and ASEAN emphasized that the bloc would continue to pursue diplomatic means to establish productive and sustainable cooperation in Southeast Asia.

2 years ago