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View all search resultsDefending the environment is a precarious occupation in Southeast Asia, where kidnapping and abuse against human rights activists across all fields is as commonplace as businesses flouting environmental protections, often in cahoots with law enforcement.
Adopting nature-based solutions in a holistic, collaborative manner among government, businesses and communities across the archipelago will unlock a whole host of economic, social and environmental benefits toward Indonesia's future resilience and sustainability.
Governments subsidize and incentivize environmental destruction through direct payments, tax breaks, and cheap loans to corporations that clear-cut, overfish, pollute and destabilize the climate through fossil fuel emissions.
As an archipelagic state, Indonesia needs to take a direct lead in protecting marine areas in the high seas by ratifying the United Nation’s BBNJ Agreement and incorporating its management as part of its Vision 2045.
We all need to wake up to this urgent need to better protect Asia-Pacific’s biodiversity, for the good of ourselves, our food security and nutritional health, our environment, and to safeguard those of our future generations.
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