Blue Carbon Ecosystem The coastal ecosystems of mangroves, corals, and seagrass meadows are essential for tackling the climate change because of the decarbonization, also it protects coastal area from storms and sea level rise, prevent shoreline erosion, protects habitat for commercially important f...

Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), in 2021, as many as 83,843 villages still have not received clean drinking water services. Out of that number, there are 47,915 villages that do not have access to clean drinking water. While the rest, as claimed by the Ministry of Pu...

We are excited to announce the amazing #youngwaterleaders for UNESCO Water Resilience Challenge 2022: Groundwater. Congratulations for all the Indonesian and Vietnamese brightest youth who made it! Keep your spirit up and good luck for the next four weeks! For those who have not been ...

Find the answers to frequently asked questions about UNESCO Water Resilience Challenge 2022 I am not majoring in a water-related field, can I still apply? Don't worry! Everyone from every major are welcomed to apply.  How many participants will be taken from each country? 25 participants will b...

PROGRAM OVERVIEW UNESCO and The Water Agency are seeking candidates for the UNESCO Water Resilience Challenge 2022 on the theme of GROUNDWATER. Indonesian and Vietnamese citizens between the ages of 18 and 30, full-time undergraduate students or those who have graduated from college, university, or ...

The UNESCO Water Resilience Challenge is a capacity-building program that challenges and inspires the next future leaders, especially students and young professionals from various backgrounds, to contribute ideas and concepts for their version of sustainable water management in biosphere reserve are...

Date: June, 28 2022  Cilacap, Central Java (ANTARA) - State oil company PT Kilang Pertamina Internasional's (KPI's) Refinery Unit (RU) IV Cilacap is investigating a crude oil spill in Donan River, Cilacap district, Central Java, which was detected on Monday.While issuing a press statement in Ci...

Some 60 students and teachers on Thursday, June 16, gathered for the World Environment Day and World Oceans Day combined celebration at Sekolah Alam Matoa, a private elementary school that highlights Indonesian nature and biodiversity in its curriculum. They plant trees, release fish, and join an ar...

The implementation of carbon tax needs to be supported by other policies to reduce its social impact, especially on underprivileged people, an official from the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) has said. One of the impacts of carbon tax implementation is a rise in production cost, rese...

Cianjur, W Java (ANTARA) - Hundreds of houses in five sub-districts of Cianjur District, West Java, got submerged due to an overflowing river, secretary of the Cianjur District Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) Rudi Wibowo stated on Tuesday.No casualties were reported, but dozens of families were fo...

Bima, Bimakini.- The phenomenon of marine pollution in Bima bay on April 24-30 2022, covering an area of more than 10 hectares, has attracted the attention of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). Thursday, April 28, 2022, a team from the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering conducted...

The coastal area of Surabaya and its surroundings, East Java, was reportedly submerged by high tides or tidal flooding Monday (13/6). The sea tide reaching the mainland was monitored to be 20-40 centimetres. The Coordinator for Observation and Information of the Tanjung Perak Maritime BMKG in Suraba...

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo highlighted the global food crisis at the opening of the national meeting of the government internal supervisory today, June 14, 2022. He emphasized that the crisis could be turned into an opportunity. "Because we have large lands that many have not been utilized," the...

Central Java's Pekalongan City authority has inked the Blue Deal Programme cooperation agreement with the Dutch government to address the flooding and coastal flooding issues plaguing the city. "We are grateful for the Blue Deal cooperation agreement with the Dutch Water Authorities (DWA) because th...

Date: June 9, 2022 June 8 is celebrated as World Ocean Day. The celebration aims to respect, protect and preserve oceans around the world, including from the problem of plastic waste.The ocean provides us with many resources such as oxygen, climate regulation, food sources, medicine, and many others...