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Cleaning Indonesia Starts From You! Integrating Pandawara's Efforts to Your Daily Life

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     Every day, Indonesia produces over 175,000 tons of waste enough to fill multiple football stadiums. But what if you could help change this? Have you ever walked past a filthy river or a trashfilled street and thought, ‘Someone should do something about this?’ Or ‘what the government doing?’ All the trash and waste problem started from a single individual, someone who are irresponsible, careless, and ignorant about the importance of trash and waste management. Unfortunately in Indonesia there are countless people who are like that. As long as these people still doing what they are doing and not started to think about their surrounding and future, the trash and waste problem will remain. But still there is a group of people who are different from others, who decide to break this endless cycle, like a light in the midst of darkness, this group called themselves “Pandawara”      Pandawara is a group of five youth led environmental initiative from Bandung, ...
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5 Impact of Palm Oil Plantations on Indonesia’s Ecosystem

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Indonesia is the world’s biggest producer of palm oil, one of the most essential ingredients in producing various items such as foods, fuels, and cosmetics. While palm oil plantations are supporting the economy, its excessive expansion has led to serious environmental problems. Here are five major impact of Palm Oil Plantations on Indonesia’s Ecosystem. 1. Deforestation and Habitat Destruction  Palm oil plantations require vast amounts of land, that leads to massive deforestation. As forests are cleared, Indonesia loses its rich biodiversity, and endangered species like orangutans, Sumatran tigers, and elephants are forced to leave their own hometown that make them one step closer into the extinction. 2. Air and Water Pollution  Lot of palm oil companies use slash-and-burn methods to clear land, causing forest fires and producing thick cloud that affects air quality across the land. Additionally, palm oil mills often dump chemical waste into rivers, polluting water sources a...
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