Indonesia

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

Funding Opportunity: Asia Resilient Cities (ARC)

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for acooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the Asia Resilient Cities (ARC)activity. The ARC activity is a five-year cooperative agreement with the anticipated start of performancearound July 15, 2022. ARC will work with three or more cities… Read More

CCBO Indonesia Fact Sheet Bahasa

Indonesia adalah negara kepulauan terbesar di dunia dan terpadat keempat, dengan lebih dari 270 juta orang. Indonesia mengalami pertumbuhan populasi yang cepat, terutama di pusat-pusat perkotaannya yang lebih dari setengahnya terletak di daerah pesisir. Pada tahun 2025, 68 persen populasi negara ini diperkirakan akan tinggal di daerah perkotaan, di mana… Read More