Pekalongan will lose 5,271 hectares by 2035. The batik industry is already feeling the pinch of sea level rise. Industry players share their stories.
Richaldo Y. Hariandja or Rico started his journalism career in 2013 at Media Indonesia. For the past five years, the 33-year-old has worked as a freelance journalist for several media outlets, most notably Mongabay Indonesia. Interested in environmental and science issues, Rico covered a climate change conference in Morocco (2016). He won a fellowship to study clean energy transition in Germany in 2017. In 2020, he received the Thomson Reuters Foundation journalism scholarship in energy transition.