Tag Archives: climate change

Headline 2025: The Year We Turned Climate Anxiety Into Collective Action

Headline 2025

During 2025, Enter Nusantara has successfully built collaborations, developed campaigns, and organised the Indonesian youth to develop localised renewable energy solutions that seeks to achieve energy decentralisation as a solution to mitigating the climate crisis. In order to achieve this goal, we set out 4 main objectives that centers around pressuring the Indonesian banking industry […]

Young People at the Crossroads of Opportunity and Challenges in Green Careers

The usual buzz of university life filled the canteen of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (FMIPA) at Universitas Indonesia—known among students as “Dallas.” In one corner, Syarifa Amira sat alone with a five-thousand-rupiah iced tea, her eyes shifting between the crowd and her laptop screen. As a final-year geology student, she was racing […]

Demanding Forgotten Basic Rights for Women in Disaster Management

The mud in the remote corners of Aceh may have begun to dry in the memories of many, but the reality on the ground shows that the wounds from the flash floods of late 2025 remain wide open. As public attention fades, communities in the hinterlands of Aceh Tamiang and East Aceh are struggling with […]

Gentengisasi: Beneran Solusi Limbah atau Hanya Obsesi terhadap Batu Bara?

Presiden Prabowo Subianto tiba-tiba bicara tentang atap rumah dalam forum resmi negara. Di tengah Rapat Koordinasi Nasional Pemerintah Pusat dan Daerah 2026 di Sentul, Bogor, ia menyinggung soal seng yang panas, berkarat, dan menurutnya tidak mencerminkan Indonesia yang ingin “aman, sehat, resik, dan indah.” Indonesia harus ASRI, katanya. Dan salah satu caranya mengganti atap seng […]

Gentengisasi: A Real Waste Solution or Just an Obsession with Coal?

President Prabowo Subianto suddenly spoke about house roofs at an official state forum. In the middle of the 2026 National Coordination Meeting of Central and Regional Governments in Sentul, Bogor, he brought up zinc roofing—hot, rusty, and, in his view, not reflective of an Indonesia that is “safe, healthy, clean, and beautiful.” Indonesia must be […]

Young People Speak Out Against Climate Disasters Through ‘Youth Resist and Care’ Movement

Bandung, February 14, 2026 – A relentless wave of natural disasters hitting Indonesia—from Aceh and North Sumatra to West Bandung—has sparked deep concern among the younger generation. In response, Enter Nusantara has launched the “Youth Resist and Care” movement. This initiative is a bold stand against the indifference of decision-makers who often treat climate victims […]

Indonesia’s Energy: What We Use, What We Have

When we talk about energy in Indonesia, the truth is, we’re incredibly rich. The real issue isn’t whether we have energy resources or not, but which ones we choose to use, and who they’re used for. Our daily lives, from rushing to catch the KRL in the morning to scrolling TikTok before bed, are powered […]

COP30 in Belém: A Festival of Empty Promises and Global Climate Clichés!

The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Belém, Brazil, has concluded with an agreement dubbed “Global Mutirão.” This term originates from the Tupi-Guarani language family, meaning ‘collective’ or ‘mutual cooperation,’ which was championed by the Brazilian Presidency to emphasize global solidarity. However, instead of celebrating a […]

Greta Thunberg’s Journey: From School Strikes to Global Impact

Who doesn’t know Greta Thunberg? Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, born January 3, 2003, in Stockholm, Sweden, is a prominent environmental activist known for her efforts to combat climate change. Greta comes from a family consisting of an opera singer mother and an actor father. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, commonly classified as an autism spectrum […]

Sumud Flotilla: Steadfastness from the Gaza Sea and the Resistance Against the Humanitarian and Climate Crises

The Global Sumud Flotilla, known in Arabic as Ustul as-Sumud al-‘Alami and sometimes referred to as the Global Freedom Flotilla, is a civil society initiative formed in mid-2025. Its mission is to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. The movement takes its name from the Arabic word sumud, which means ‘steadfastness’ or ‘resilience,’ […]