Indonesia

Trials of Improved Practices Manual

This manual is intended to introduce Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs) to organizations Read More

Clean Air Catalyst Fact Sheet – Jakarta, Indonesia

As a result of the doubling of its economy over the past decade, Jakarta’s transportation and industrial sectors are growing rapidly, and so are its bad air days. According to the 2022 State of Global Air report, Jakarta is among the top ten most polluted cities in the world. Fine… Read More

Clean Air Catalyst – Understanding Jakarta’s Air

In this highlight note, the Clean Air Catalyst wants to share what it knows about air pollution in Jakarta, how it impacts health and the climate, and what we can do about it. Read More

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean – Indonesia Fact Sheet

Indonesia is the largest archipelagic country in the world and the fourth most populous, with over 270 million people. The country has experienced rapid population growth across many of its inhabited islands, particularly in its urban centers—of which over half are located in coastal areas. By 2025, 68 percent of… Read More

Six Ways USAID is Advancing Gender Equality in the Waste Sector

Women play a critical role in the waste sector, as informal workers collecting plastics, or as owners of recycling centers and upcycling businesses—preventing plastic waste from reaching the ocean. Read More

Blended Finance: A Blueprint to Support a Circular Economy in Indonesia

Like many rapidly urbanizing countries across Asia, Indonesia is faced with the challenge of reducing and recycling growing volumes of waste without the recycling infrastructure it requires. Increasing that challenge is the geographic reality of collecting waste across an archipelago of 17,000 islands.  In October 2022, the U.S. Agency for… Read More

CCBO Launches New Capacity Building Tool for Local Governments

More than 22 million tons of plastic leak into our aquatic environment each year, the majority from land-based sources in communities and cities that aren’t able to adequately collect and manage local waste.  Local governments have an important role in providing on-the-ground services to control waste and prevent ocean plastic… Read More

The Women in Waste’s Economic Empowerment (WWEE) Fact Sheet

led by Clean Cities, Blue Ocean (CCBO)—USAID’s global flagship program to address ocean plastic pollution under the Save Our Seas Initiative Read More

United States Announces Partnership to Reduce Ocean Plastic Pollution in Indonesia

Today, the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Clean Cities, Blue Ocean program, joined Circulate Capital, an impact-focused investment management firm, and Prevented Ocean Plastic Southeast Asia (POPSEA), a plastic recycling company that is developing sorting and collection infrastructure in underserved communities across Indonesia, in announcing… Read More

United States Announces Partnership to Reduce Ocean Plastic Pollution in Indonesia

On July 27, 2022 USAID launched a new partnership to expand plastic waste collection and recycling in Indonesia under the auspices of the Save Our Seas Initiative. The Save Our Seas Initiative is USAID’s new flagship global initiative to combat the growing threat of ocean plastic… Read More