TRANSFORMATION – MVB Sustainability Forum is a multi-city platform designed to accelerate practical sustainability transformation across Indonesia’s hospitality, tourism, manufacturing, and urban development sectors. Moving beyond awareness and commitments, the Forum focuses on real-world implementation, cross-sector collaboration, and scalable solutions that address local environmental and social challenges while supporting national development priorities and global sustainability...

Do you know the difference between heritage and legacy? People often mix them up, but it’s quite simple: heritage is what is left to us- the things we inherit from previous generations. Legacy is what we leave behind for the next generations. Both are equally important in the context of sustainability, but we need to carefully recognise and record what we have now to make sure we know exactly where we are and what we have to do to leave a viable and valuable legacy. First we have to...

By Alistair G. Speirs Welcome to our new column exploring sustainability issues in our lives, and in the context of Jakarta. Almost everything we do has an impact on the environmental, social or cultural sustainability of a city, even the seemingly mundane; and so this column brings these less obvious factors to light. We start with an area that I am sure you have never thought of as being bad for the environment – annoying perhaps, diverting certainly, really contradictory to safety, also...