A solar farm powers a small community in Sikka District, relatively untouched by air pollution. While Jakarta ranks as one of the most polluted cities in the world.
Marina Nasution started her journalism career in 2015 at DAAI TV Medan. In 2019, she migrated to Jakarta and continued her work as a reporter at Konde.co. Throughout her career, Marina has often raised issues related to women, children, and other marginalized groups. She has a keen interest in gender issues and she is now diving deeper into environmental issues and its impacts on communities. In 2021, Nasution was part of a team that studied how the Indonesian media frames and reports LGBT issues, a research that was supported by Internews. In 2022, Marina received a grant from the Internews’ Earth Journalism Network to produce a story on the impact of air pollution on transgender women.
The plight of trans women: Struggling with stigma and air pollution
Trans women experience multiple impacts from air pollution. Many live near pollution sources and do not have good coping skills.