🇮🇩Indonesia

Waste4Change is an Indonesian social enterprise that collects, sorts, and recycles household and commercial waste to divert it from landfills.

Bali-born environmental organization stopping river plastic from reaching the ocean with simple floating barriers and daily cleanups.

Three worried mothers turned a change.org petition against Jakarta's smog into a nationwide youth movement for the right to clean air.

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.

Indonesia's first all-female coral restoration program trains young local women as reef scientists and divers on the Gili Islands.

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.

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.

Indonesia's largest great-ape rescue network has released more than 900 rehabilitated orangutans back into protected Kalimantan rainforest.

EcoNusa helps Indigenous Papuan and Maluku communities map, defend, and sustainably manage their own forests and mangroves against palm oil and logging expansion.

Indonesia's largest Indigenous alliance is racing to map millions of hectares of ancestral forest before loggers and plantations get there first.

Two Balinese sisters turned a school project into a global youth movement that helped ban single-use plastic bags across Bali.

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.