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Vice President Jusuf Kalla said that as a maritime country, Indonesia need fast and effective connectivity to facilitate every island.

Ministry of Environment and Forestry issued Indonesian National Standard, or locally known as SNI, for ecolabeling on plastic shopping bags products and degradable bioplastic.

Indonesia loses 52,000 hectares of mangrove ecosystem due to land use change, said a senior researcher from Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

Indonesia’s Defense Ministry and Indonesia Biodiversity Foundation (KEHATI) are planning to establish a laboratory specific for bamboos.

Environment issues cannot be seen from one side. Social problems such as poverty, legal issues, and culture must be integrated into one unity if the aim is to tackle environment issues in Indonesia.


Ministry of Environment and Forestry said that incinerator for waste management was needed in major cities such as Jakarta with big volume of waste.

Ministry of Environment and Forestry along with Police, District Attorney, and Center for Financial Transaction Reporting and Analysis (PPATK) encourage for Money Laundering Law to impose harsher punishment for illegal wildlife traffickers.

National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), Urban Risk Lab of Massachusetts Information Technology (MIT), launches PetaBencana.id, a free and open disaster map early in 2017.

Secretary General at Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Bambang Hendroyono: “There should be an integration between ministries and agencies to protect and make benefits of our biodiversity.”

Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries will start to manage potentials of small and outer islands of Indonesia.

Recycling is nothing new for Yeni, who is the founder of My Darling Waste Bank. She had created countless upcycle, including the 6.5 meter christmas tree made of thousands of plastic bottles.

Out of 77 conservation institutions in Indonesia, only 31 had been accredited prompting the need to speed up the process to avoid bad management practice.

Increased hotspots have been spotted in several provinces, such as Riau, South Sumatra, South Sulawesi, and West Kalimantan, in the past few weeks.