Environment & Natural Disasters

March 2018

News/Indonesia
Tirto – March 5, 2018

Hendra Friana – Muhammad Hisbun Payu (Is), an environmental activist from Sukoharjo in Central Java, was arrested by police in front of the Alfamidi minimarket in the Lenteng Agung area of South Jakarta on Sunday March 4.

September 2017

News/Indonesia
Tempo – September 4, 2017

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Scores of farmers from the North Kendeng mountains held a protest action in front of the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta on September 4.

May 2017

News/Indonesia
Sindo News – May 20, 2017

Sudarsono, Jakarta – Several lawmakers are calling on the government to close down or expel non-government organisations (NGOs) working for foreign interests because they are undermining national sovereignty and disrupting the Indonesian economy.

April 2017

News/West Papua
CNN Indonesia – April 7, 2017

Tiara Sutari, Jakarta – The Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) held a joint action [with the Indonesian People’s Front for West Papua (FRI-West Papua] in front of the offices of PT Freeport Indonesia in Jakarta on Friday April 7 demanding that Freeport halt its mining activities in Papua because it harms the Papuan people.

December 2016

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – December 17, 2016

Demon: Hate speech, provocation, intolerance, slander, defamation, hoax news

Kid: Dad... Bandung flood, landslides, earthquakes, bomb threats

June 2016

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – June 25, 2016

Man: You have to be sensitive in reading the 'signs of nature' so you don't fumble around and get fatalistic

April 2016

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – April 9, 2016

Kid: There are some animals that'll never become extinct right Dad...

Headline reads 'Endangered wildlife', badges read 'Political Elite', 'Business Owner'

February 2016

News/Indonesia
Viva News – February 17, 2016

Lazuardhi Utama, Bobby Andalan (Bali) – A group of people calling themselves the “Californians Against Reclamation in Benoa Bay-Bali” held a demonstration in San Francisco to welcome the arrival of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.

January 2016

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – January 27, 2016

Despite the rainy season having begun in November, global warming exacerbated by the El Nino weather phenomenon has resulted in rain still not falling on parts of eastern Indonesia with farmers reporting widespread harvest failures.

October 2015

News/Indonesia
Koran Opini – October 25, 2015

KoPi – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi), a social organisation concerned with the environment, has released a list of big companies causing the forest and land fires in Indonesia.