Supporting climate reporting in Indonesian newsrooms
In 2026, the Monash Climate Communication Hub and the Australia-Indonesia Centre undertook a project to understand journalists’ knowledge and newsroom interest in climate change and the energy transition, using Makassar, South Sulawesi, as a regional case study. Funded by the Australia-Indonesia Institute under DFAT, with Universitas Hasanuddin as the Indonesian research partner, the project combined media analysis, journalist surveys, focus groups, community fieldwork and knowledge-sharing workshops between Indonesian and Australian journalists, researchers and communication specialists.
The research found a clear appetite among journalists to strengthen climate and energy reporting, alongside significant barriers including limited scientific knowledge and access to experts, newsroom pressures, commercial constraints, and limited time and resources.