Sungai Watch (@sungaiwatch)

Today, we're saying goodbye to our mentor and dear friend, Pak Man. Thank you for showing us what it truly means to be a real-life superhero for our rivers. Pak Man, your dedication, passion, and spirit will live on in every river we protect 🌱🌊

If facilities like this existed in every neighborhood across Indonesia, maybe no one would burn their trash anymore 🤔 In this episode of Better Ways, let's get to know @TPS3R_sadukencana in Tabanan, Bali! Here, waste isn't just dumped or burned arbitrarily; it’s meticulously managed, from sorting…

Katanya bakar sampah di Indonesia itu ilegal, tapi kok TPS dekat rumah sering kelihatan berasap terus? Emang boleh ya? Jawabannya: secara aturan di Permen LHK No. 70 Tahun 2016, pengolahan sampah secara termal itu bisa legal, tapi syaratnya teknisnya ketat. Sayangnya banyak TPS yang membakar…

This thick smoke is not from forest fires but from thousands of open, illegal trash-burning sites around us 🔥 From plastics and styrofoam to organic waste, everything is burned openly without filters, safety standards, or sorting processes. Dangerous toxins are freely released into the air…

Plang larangan membuang dan membakar terpampang jelas, tapi tumpukan sampah ilegal dan kebakaran justru terjadi di sini Di tengah kemarau panjang, membakar sampah bukan lagi sekadar kebiasaan buruk—ini adalah pemicu bencana. Berawal dari tumpukan sampah yang dibakar, api merembet dan melahap…

1,000 volunteers, 2 hours, and 3 tons of trash! To commemorate World Cleanup Day, Sungai Watch headed into the Denpasar mangroves alongside 1,000 incredible volunteers. In just 2 hours, we successfully hauled out 3,000 kilograms of trapped waste from the mangrove ecosystem. Tackling the waste…

Penyelenggaraan Perang Tipat Bantal tahun ini terasa spesial banget karena apa yang terjadi di balik layar. Warga berinisiatif langsung menggandeng pihak swasta untuk mengelola sampah acara adat ini secara bertanggung jawab. 
 Bersama teman-teman dari Shiva Industri yang menangani sampah organik…

The dry season brings a completely different challenge for Sungai Warriors ☀🥵 Without water flowing, plastic never reaches our river barriers—it sits trapped in shallow, stagnant pools, baking under the sun. That means we can’t wait for the river to bring the waste to us. Our team has to walk down…

We pulled 7,5 TONS of trash out of this river, but that is not a good thing. The good news: we stopped those 7,5 tons of waste from washing out into the ocean. BUT the brutal reality: very little of this waste can actually be recycled. The pollution here is overwhelmingly severe and completely…

Pulau apa ya ini? 🇮🇩⚡ 156 juta manusia, jutaan cerita, dan energi yang nggak pernah ada habisnya. Kita semua cinta riuhnya Pulau Jawa. Tapi di balik semua keseruan ini, ada realitas masif yang jarang dibicarakan: lebih dari 60% sampah se-Indonesia terkonsentrasi di pulau ini. Selama 1 minggu ke…

Bali generates 1.2 million tons of garbage every year, and nearly 70% of that is organic waste 🍎🥗🍌 Meet Ajung! Instead of letting food waste pile up in overflowing landfills, he took matters into his own hands: turning organic waste into rich compost and nutrient-packed feed for local pigs. It’s…

Banyuwangi is known for its majestic mountains, but the shores of Muncar have formed a mountain of their own: a mountain of trash 🗻 In one of the country's most vital fishing hubs, estuaries and coastlines are buried beneath an unyielding tide of plastic. The very waters that sustain local…

Telling people "stop dumping" while providing minimum pickup trucks or operating waste management facilities isn't a solution. it's shifting institutional failure onto households. There are immediate responsible workaround for your home or business like Eco Bali, Shiva Industries, and ACS, but we…

SEMANGAT SENIN 🔥 Trash doesn’t take the weekend off, so Monday is always our heaviest workout. We’re in the water hauling wet sacks against the current before the plastic escapes into the ocean. 🌊 Follow our journey and visit the link in our bio to donate and support our river warriors on the…

Change is hard. Progress is hard. Showing up everyday is hard. But surviving in a system that continuously fails us is so much harder. Things are tough and they'll probably get tougher. But we won't stop until there is no trash left to pull from Indonesia's rivers. -------------- Berubah itu…

How much longer are we going to live in a state of emergency? When a crisis lasts for nearly a decade, it stops being an unforeseen disaster, it becomes a normalized failure. What we are seeing today isn’t bad luck; it is the compounding effect of years of collective inaction. Year after year, the…

Come through if you want to help change the rivers of Indonesia 🌊🇮🇩 This September, 16 artists come together for Rivers in Ceremony, the 2nd Annual Sungai Watch Charity Exhibition, presented by SUN.CONTEMPORARY. Each artwork becomes an opportunity to give back to our rivers, with proceeds from the…

This is not a celebration. This is a reminder ‼ 5 MILLION KILOGRAMS IS NOT JUST A NUMBER. It's every early morning, every difficult conversation, and every person who chose to keep showing up. It's the communities we've built, the lessons we've learned, and the moments when we had to remind…

Meet this week’s practitionare of Better Ways: Bu Jibenk! It all started with her concern about Bali’s waste problem. Bu Jibenk began experimenting with weaving using materials she already had at home, plastic bags! She now transforms plastic bags that would often end up in landfills or rivers…

What began with just three siblings running 20–30km every single day for 58 days, transformed into an unstoppable global movement. We ran, and as we ran, we traced a crisis. This run bears witness to a trail of plastic that spares nothing- invading quiet villages, swallowing sprawling cities…

Semakin dekat kita dengan Jakarta, semakin parah pula krisis pengelolaan sampah yang dihadapi. Di Karawang, tempat video timelapse ini direkam, sungai-sungai tersedak oleh kombinasi beracun antara gunungan plastik rumah tangga dan limbah pabrik industri—menciptakan siklus polusi dan aksi…

Satu lagi kenyataan memilukan yang kami saksikan dalam perjalanan #RunForRivers kami. Bagi para wanita ini, polusi plastik adalah ancaman sehari-hari terhadap kesehatan dan martabat mereka. Mereka terpaksa mencuci pakaian keluarga mereka tepat di samping tumpukan pulau sampah raksasa yang…

Setelah 50 hari lebih di perjalanan, rasa lelah mulai merayap.. Berlari setiap hari selama 4 hingga 5 jam menembus debu tebal dan polusi benar-benar menguras energi kami. Ini adalah kenyataan pahit yang harus kami hadapi, ditambah lagi dengan beban berat dari apa yang kami saksikan—mulai dari…

Tingkat polusi sungai di Jawa Barat sejauh ini adalah yang terburuk yang pernah kami lihat. Di sinilah setiap kontribusi yang Anda berikan disalurkan—untuk membersihkan sungai-sungai seperti ini di Indramayu dan seluruh Indonesia. Tidak ada yang lebih memuaskan daripada melihat sungai bisa…

Seperti apa rasanya membersihkan sampah di bawah jembatan? Suasananya gelap, klaustrofobik, dan membuat Anda nyaris tidak punya ruang untuk bernapas, apalagi bergerak. Menyelip ke dalam lorong-lorong sempit ini berarti harus berjuang melewati sedimen lumpur yang tebal demi menjangkau sampah…

Ini bukan TPA (Tempat Pembuangan Akhir), ini adalah sungai! Seperti inilah realitas ratusan sungai di seluruh Indonesia. Air bersih adalah hak asasi manusia. Namun, ribuan ton sampah plastik terus mengalir melalui sungai-sungai ini langsung ke lautan kita. Tapi, kami tidak tinggal diam. Kami…

Kita sudah melewati 1.000 kilometer dan resmi memasuki Jawa Barat! Rasanya seperti kembali ke titik awal, karena di sinilah semua ini bermula—saat Sam menyusuri Sungai Citarum (salah satu jalur air paling tercemar di dunia) dengan kayak yang terbuat dari botol plastik. Ada rasa nostalgia…

Hanya butuh 20 detik untuk menonton aksi pembersihan ini, namun ada begitu banyak jam kerja tak terlihat di balik layar! Namun, bagi kamu berbeda; beberapa detik yang kamu luangkan untuk berdonasi dalam penggalangan dana kami akan menciptakan jam-jam perubahan yang berdampak nyata. Bantu kami…

#RunForRivers bukan sekadar tentang seberapa jauh kilometer yang ditempuh! Ini adalah bentuk intervensi di berbagai level—mulai dari membersihkan sungai kotor yang kami lewati, bertemu dengan para pemimpin daerah, edukasi masyarakat setempat, dan yang paling penting: pemetaan sungai. Anggap saja…

Inilah alasan mengapa kami berlari. Inilah alasan mengapa kami menggalang dana sebesar $1 juta. Agar setiap sungai di Indonesia bisa bertransformasi dari kondisi "sebelum" menjadi "sesudah"! Ingin tahu bagaimana Anda bisa mendorong perubahan ini? Berikan kontribusi melalui tautan di bio kami! ___…