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Greenpeace Protest Urges Indonesia to Act on Climate Crisis
On October 20, Greenpeace Indonesia activists unfurled protest banners at Jakarta’s Selamat Datang Monument to mark two years of the Prabowo-Gibran administration.
The banners urged the government to tackle the climate crisis and highlighted worsening disasters and living costs.
Greenpeace said climate-related disasters, including prolonged haze, harm people’s health and livelihoods, with vulnerable workers hit hardest.
State Secretary Minister Prasetyo Hadi said the government is working to fight forest fires, deploying ground crews, aircraft and volunteers.
He said firefighting and weather modification efforts are under way in South Sumatra and three Kalimantan provinces, and that rain has started in some districts.
Prasetyo also said companies found responsible could lose their licenses, while the government pursues legal action and public education.
Greenpeace Indonesia activists unfurled protest banners at Jakarta’s Selamat Datang Monument on October 20, calling on the government to take the climate crisis more seriously.
The protest coincided with the two-year anniversary of the Prabowo-Gibran administration.
One banner called for action on the climate crisis and lower living costs, while another questioned the government’s response to worsening disasters and hardship.
Greenpeace said climate-related disasters and prolonged haze threaten health and livelihoods and add pressure through rising living costs and job uncertainty.
Minister of State Secretary Prasetyo Hadi said the government was working to address disasters, including forest fires, and had deployed personnel and equipment.
- Who
- Greenpeace Indonesia activists and Minister of State Secretary Prasetyo Hadi.
- What
- Greenpeace activists staged a protest urging stronger government action on the climate crisis. The minister said the government was working to address disasters, including forest fires.
- When
- October 20, 2026, the two-year anniversary of the Prabowo-Gibran administration.
- Where
- The Selamat Datang Monument at the HI Roundabout in Central Jakarta.
- Why
- Greenpeace aimed to urge the government to take the climate crisis more seriously and highlighted its effects on health, livelihoods and living costs.
Greenpeace Indonesia
Indonesian government
Climate and disaster response
Greenpeace Indonesia
Greenpeace called for the government to take the climate crisis more seriously and displayed a banner asking what it was doing as disasters worsened.
Indonesian government
Prasetyo Hadi said the government was working to tackle disasters, including forest fires, and rejected the suggestion that it was doing nothing.
Greenpeace Indonesia activists unfurled two banners at the Selamat Datang Monument during the two-year anniversary of the Prabowo-Gibran administration.
Prasetyo Hadi responded to the protest and described government efforts to tackle forest fires and other disasters.
- Protest date
- October 20, 2026
- Protest location
- Selamat Datang Monument, HI Roundabout, Central Jakarta
- Banner message
- Tackle Climate Crisis, Lower Living Costs
- Government minister
- Prasetyo Hadi, Minister of State Secretary
- Fire response provinces
- South Sumatra, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and West Kalimantan
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What people are saying
Working groups living in economic vulnerability are the hardest hit
We are all trying our hardest; we are doing our utmost
It is untrue that we are doing nothing as suggested by the banner