Source: The Jakarta PostDate: November 19, 2021. Badan Pengusahaan (BP) Batam has been developing the Batu Ampar Port into a Smart Port to boost the port's maximum effectiveness while providing low-cost services in the international sea trade sector. To that end, BP Batam has installed InaPortnet, a...
Indonesia slashes 2021 mangrove restoration target, vows to make up in 2022
Source: MongabayDate: November 17, 2021. Indonesia has scaled back its target for mangrove restoration this year, but says its longer-term goal of rehabilitating 630,000 hectares (1.55 million acres) by 2024 remains unchanged. It blames "technical hurdles," including the diversion of funding for the...
Jakarta floods to not protract over few hours: Deputy governor
Source: ANTARADate: November 15, 2021. Jakarta (ANTARA) - Deputy Governor of Jakarta Ahmad Riza Patria affirmed that floods in Jakarta would not last for days, as the government had applied a host of flood prevention and mitigation measures. "During this rainy season, several areas in Indonesia are ...
KNTI calls for accelerating, expanding mangrove ecosystem restoration
Source: ANTARADate: November 8, 2021. Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Traditional Fishers Association (KNTI) has encouraged to expedite and expand policies pertaining to the restoration of mangrove ecosystems or forests in regions. "The KNTI itself has long pushed for the restoration of mang...
UNESCO Water Resilience Challenge 2021: Strategies for solutions
Following the technical meeting and 4-day workshop in Phase I, the Challenge continues to Phase II, which started on 11 October until 11 November 2021. This phase aims to sharpen the teams in translating their strategies into solutions with the guidance of experienced mentors. Within these five week...
Indonesia continues to reduce emissions in building, waste sectors
Source: ANTARADate: November 3, 2021. Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia's Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) Ministry fully supports policies for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through infrastructure development by, for instance, adopting the green building development concepts. "We have a...
Australia-Indonesia Joint Statement on Cooperation on the Green Economy and Energy Transition
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of IndonesiaDate: November 1, 2021. Indonesia and Australia acknowledge that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a global challenge. They share ambition to address this challenge through cooperation and collaboration to develop, finance, deploy, a...
As La Nina Returns, Indonesia Braces for Flooding, Landslides
Source: TEMPODate: October 31, 2021. TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) warns of high precipitation that may trigger hydrometeorological disasters as a weak La Nina event is currently re-emerging over Indonesia for the second consecutive year. La Nina...
PUPR Ministry-HATHI prepare measures for dealing with La Nina
Source: ANTARADate: October 30, 2021. Surabaya (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) and the Indonesian Hydraulic Engineers Association (HATHI) have prepared several measures for tackling La Nina storms that can cause flooding in Indonesia, an official has informed. "As p...
Indonesia, Sweden sign joint statement on blue economy cooperation
Source: ANTARADate: October 27, 2021. Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Governments of Indonesia and Sweden have agreed to establish cooperation in blue economy. A joint statement on the cooperation agreement was inked by Indonesia's Minister of National Development Planning/Head of National Development Planni...
Call for solution providers to work together in Welang River, East Java
Solution needs: River dredgingSludge / sediment material managementWater retentionCheck damsRiver wideningEarly warning system (EWS)Terrace cultivation / terracingSustainable farming practices, agroforestryReforestation actions Ecosystem servicesCommunity education (on soil and w...
BMKG cautions of La Nina-triggered high precipitation
Source: ANTARADate: October 23, 2021. Jakarta (ANTARA) - Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Head Dwikorita Karnawati cautioned of high precipitation that could trigger hydrometeorological disasters, as La Nina is developing over Indonesia. Weak La Nina has been developing in Octo...
Climate Governance in Indonesia
Source: Climate Action TrackerDate: October 18, 2021. The CAT Climate Governance series seeks to produce a practical framework for assessing a government's readiness - both from an institutional and governance point of view - to ratchet up climate policy and implement adequate transformational polic...
A mounting battle that starts at home
Source: The Jakarta PostDate: October 18, 2021. Both at home and abroad, plastic waste is a mounting problem that is not going to disappear on its own. The United Nations estimates that 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into the ocean worldwide each year, with Indonesia contributing upward of 600,...
FAO Supports Indonesia in Transforming Agri-Food System
Source: TEMPODate: October 15, 2021. TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The new Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Representative to Indonesia, Rajendra Aryal, presented his credentials to the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi on September 13. At th online meeting, he rea...