Asia · South-Eastern Asia
15 projects · 15 organizations
The cheapest air conditioner is a tin of highly reflective paint on the roof, and an Indonesian university team proved it could drop indoor temperatures by ten degrees.
A crash that killed eight people on a Jakarta pavement turned a handful of angry pedestrians into a national coalition.
Waste4Change is an Indonesian social enterprise that collects, sorts, and recycles household and commercial waste to divert it from landfills.
Indonesia's largest Indigenous alliance is racing to map millions of hectares of ancestral forest before loggers and plantations get there first.
EcoNusa helps Indigenous Papuan and Maluku communities map, defend, and sustainably manage their own forests and mangroves against palm oil and logging expansion.
Three worried mothers turned a change.org petition against Jakarta's smog into a nationwide youth movement for the right to clean air.
Bali-born environmental organization stopping river plastic from reaching the ocean with simple floating barriers and daily cleanups.
Indonesia's first all-female coral restoration program trains young local women as reef scientists and divers on the Gili Islands.
The Katingan Mentaya Project protects and rewets one of the world's largest tracts of tropical peat swamp forest in Borneo, keeping centuries of stored carbon out of the atmosphere.
After blackouts sometimes silenced the call to prayer, a village mosque near Yogyakarta raised tens of millions of rupiah in 'energy alms' from thousands of small donors and switched to the sun.
In fire-scarred peat-swamp forest that once burned nearly every dry season, this Borneo charity is replanting native trees and rewetting drained peat so the land stops fueling the next blaze.
Two Balinese sisters turned a school project into a global youth movement that helped ban single-use plastic bags across Bali.
Indonesia's largest great-ape rescue network has released more than 900 rehabilitated orangutans back into protected Kalimantan rainforest.
A quarter-litre of water from a Brantas tributary held 1,449 microplastic particles — fifteen times what other rivers carry — and seventeen million people drink from that system.
Indonesia's farmer-run seed bank association says its member groups have bred some 3,600 crossed rice varieties, mostly from local germplasm, without waiting on a lab.