ECOLOGY,
INDIVIDUALIZATION,
AND SYSTEMIC CHANGE
If recent news is anything to go by, there has been a surge of environmental awareness in Indonesia. A growing number of young people have become acutely more conscious of environmental destruction in their everyday lives. This can be seen in their heightened and at times angered response toward several of environmental issues, ranging from climate change to Jakarta’s suffocating air pollution and most predominately the problem of waste. Several of youth-led campaigns promoting less single-use plastic bags, less plastic straws, recycled clothing and of course tote bags have become ubiquitous amongst middle and upper class urban Indonesian youths. Being green it seems is slowly becoming the new hip lifestyle. by Ben K.C.Laksana
IULI’s International Relations Lecturer
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