#environment and forestry

Collection of environment and forestry news, found 1.309 news.

Actress Yuki Kato backs ban on single-use plastic bags in Jakarta

Indonesian actress Yuki Kato welcomes Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan's regulation number 142/2019 on banning ...

Capital city relocation to drive progress in work culture: president

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) gave directions pertaining to the relocation of the capital city to East Kalimantan ...

Indonesia asks investors to conduct sustainable businesses

The Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) has asked investors to conduct sustainable businesses by ...

Indonesian mangrove cover increased to 3.56 million hectares in 2019

Indonesia’s mangrove forest cover grew to 3.56 million hectares in 2019, Director of Environment and Disaster ...

Indonesia begins to tap carbon trading potential

Indonesia has begun exploring the potential of carbon trading since some 75-80 percent of the global carbon credit is ...

Police arrest five suspects over illegal hunting of Sumatran tiger

A joint team of the police and the Environment and Forestry Ministry has arrested five people over alleged illegal ...

Special team to probe dioxin-contaminated eggs in East Java

Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar has set up a special research team to delve deeper into the ...

2,000 scout members joined recycled costume carnival

Some 2,000 scout members joined a carnival of recycled costumes in Jakarta's MH Thamrin street during car-free day ...

Indonesia's 30 days At Sea to tackle marine pollution crime

The government has launched the Indonesia Operation 30 Days At Sea that would last from November ...

Ministry confiscates 17 containers of illegal timber in Surabaya

The Environment and Forestry Ministry confiscated 205.9 cubic meters of illegal timber stored in 17 shipping containers ...

Environmental diplomacy expected to back economic diplomacy

Environmental diplomacy is expected to support economic diplomacy that has been one of Indonesia's priorities on ...

President Jokowi raises issues of toxic waste

President Joko Widodo raised the issues of hazardous and toxic waste in the 14th East Asian Summit, held in the IMPACT ...

Researcher hints at gender bias, lesser female ministers in cabinet

The lesser representation of women ministers in Jokowi’s second-term administration’s Indonesia Moving ...

News Focus

Greenpeace campaigns on clean energy, alerts Jokowi's cabinet

At least a dozen environmental activists climbed atop the two main monuments in Jakarta on Wednesday, to unfurl a ...

Jokowi's second-term cabinet lineup features less women ministers

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Vice President KH Ma’ruf Amin declared the names of ministers in their cabinet ...