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On 24 December 2024, a tanker truck carrying concentrated sodium hydroxide in West Bandung Regency leaked its cargo while travelling from Purwakarta to Bandung. The chemical injured more than 100 people, including four serious injuries. A large number of motor vehicles were also damaged in the incident.
A result of this pollution has been the elimination of a significant part of the river's fish population estimated at 60% since 2008. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In 2011, the Indonesian government began a river revitalization project, aiming to return the whole river to clean drinking water status.
Despite being one of the main sources of Bandung's water supply, [3] the river is classified as heavily polluted. [4] Domestic waste, including human waste and detergents, is the main source of pollution as more people are living along the river banks. Other sources of pollutants are industry agriculture and farming. [4]
The 2005 Leuwigajah landslide was a landslide that killed 143 people in Indonesia. The Leuwigajah landfill serving the cities of Cimahi and Bandung in West Java, Indonesia experienced a catastrophic garbage landslide on 21 February 2005 when the face of a large, almost-vertical garbage mound collapsed after days of rain.
Therefore, the result of water quality monitoring in 30 rivers [11] in Indonesia indicates that most of river water qualities do not end up meeting water criteria class 1, i.e. water that can be used for standard water, drinking water, and or other usage that requires the same water quality with such usage, due to pollution by domestic and ...
The 2010 Southeast Asian haze was an air pollution crisis which affected many Southeast Asia countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore during the month of October in 2010. [ 25 ] This occurred during the dry season in October when forest fires were being illegally set off by Indonesian smallholders residing in the districts of Dumai ...
Rahardja was born into a large farming family in Pangalengan. [1] She became involved in environmental activism in 2008, when her husband (a property developer) acquired land in Baleendah, Bandung, where chronic pollution had greatly reduced the value of properties. [1]
Space poverty is a significant issue in Hong Kong, where low-income individuals live in extremely small, sub-divided units, which has led to overcrowding and indoor air pollution. [10] The units promote little movement, and all furniture, kitchen appliances, and bathroom necessities must fit into one sub-divided room. [ 10 ]