Marine resources and threats
Source: The Jakarta Post
Gorontalo :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-14 22:40:49 -0700 | green-news
Olele is now receiving more tourist arrivals due to its great diving. Courtesy of Paul Batuna Fishing is the livelihood of most people in Olele village. They focus on tuna because the fish sells for fairly high prices, Rp 30,000...
Jakartans struggle to cope with city's air pollution
Source: The Jakarta Post
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-14 21:10:08 -0700 | green-news
After leaving Jakarta for Bali for about a year for work, Devi Agustina, who moved back to the capital earlier this year, could not ignore the deteriorating quality of the air in Jakarta. After living in a place like Bali,...
NGO says deforestation worsens Siberut flooding
Source: The Jakarta Post
Padang :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-14 21:10:00 -0700 | green-news
From April 5, floods covered five districts on the island for five days...Three elementary schools, two community health clinics and more than 1,000 homes were swamped by up to 3 meters deep water. Although no casualties were reported, around 7,000...
Secret population of orangutans discovered in Borneo
Source: The Hindu
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-14 08:11:11 -0700 | green-news
Researchers have discovered a population of 200 of the world's rarest orangutans hiding in the forests of Indonesia. The previously unknown population was spotted by conservationists near the 140 square km Batang Park in the island of Borneo, according to...
Jakarta set to see high-rise ‘green' buildings
Source: The Jakarta Post
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-13 00:31:56 -0700 | green-news
Jakarta Building Supervision and Regulation Agency head I Putu Ngurah Indiana said on Friday that the environmentally-friendly building code, which is basically a 2012 gubernatorial regulation on green buildings, would be incorporated in the building permit application process and would...
Bengawan Solo overflows, 11 dead
Source: The Jakarta Post
Ngawi :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-13 00:31:47 -0700 | green-news
Five of the victims were residents of Ngawi, East Java while four other victims came from Bojonegoro, the other two victims were from Tuban and Gresik, all in the province...Currently, a total of 22,830 houses, 7,450 hectares of paddy fields...
Thousands flee floods in Central Java
Source: The Jakarta Post
Semarang :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-12 01:07:03 -0700 | green-news
The floods were attributed to problems with the Wulan River Dam and damage to the Sungai Welahan Drain 1 Dam in Kudus. "We have prepared two locations that could harbor up to 5000 refugees, Kudus Disaster Mitigation Agency officers Noor...
Green energy can help reduce poverty
Source: The Jakarta Post
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-11 22:21:57 -0700 | green-news
Kamaruddin Abdullah, said the government already possessed several regulations to push the use of renewable energy...Currently, according to Kamaruddin, only 67 percent of Indonesia's total regions had access to electricity. The remainder, especially villages, has no such access depite the...
Govt told to halt investment-oriented forestry policies
Source: The Jakarta Post
Jambi :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-11 05:49:33 -0700 | green-news
Arief Munandar, said on Wednesday that the Forestry Ministry's policies, which were investment-oriented, had caused acute forest damage in Jambi. Many production forest concessions had been given to state-owned enterprises (SMEs) or private plantation companies, which then turned them into...
Revolutionary rice farmers reach international markets
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Tasikmalaya :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-11 13:10:58 -0700 | green-news
More than a decade ago, the farmers in Tasikmalaya in West Java noticed the soil on their small plots of land was becoming increasingly unfertile. "The land had too many chemicals, it was too unhealthy," says Saeful Bahri, who has...
House, Govt endorse environment protection laws
Source: The Jakarta Post
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-11 01:55:06 -0700 | green-news
The two conventions are the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization and the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and...
Contaminated sea collapses fish industry
Source: The Jakarta Post
Klungkung :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-10 23:50:02 -0700 | green-news
Sixty-four-year-old Gusti Lanang Oka, a former fisherman from the village in Klungkung, says those boats offered a much better livelihood than farming, so were far more valuable than land...This place we are sitting on is half a hectare of land...
The children forced to go to school by boat after their village is repeatedly flooded for FOUR ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Lamongan :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-10 12:08:34 -0700 | green-news
10 April 2013 These children are forced to travel to school on boats due to the seasonal overflowing of the river that passes by their village. The village of Truni in Java, Indonesia, has been repeatedly flooded for more than...
Wildfire destroys 60-ha of peatland and forests
Source: The Jakarta Post
Bengkalis :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-09 20:53:56 -0700 | green-news
acting chief Jaafar Arief has blamed the wildfire on land clearing of the unattended peatland, which has been the center of a dispute between local residents and an agriculture company. People usually clear and burn peatlands for agricultural purposes and...
Dry season starts in May
Source: The Jakarta Post
Medan :: Indonesia | updated 2013-04-09 16:46:28 -0700 | green-news
Sriworo Harijono said that in the next two months, many parts of the country would continue to experience showers although of less severity. We will experience tropical rainfall but it will be at a less intense level. In short, we...
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