ABSTRACT Very little is known about environmental awareness in Indonesia. This article helps to address that ignorance with data from a survey of 1,000 senior high school students in Yogyakarta and Surabaya. The selected schools participate in environmental education (EE) programmes such as the Eco schools programme and Adiwiyata. Almost 90% of our respondents self-identified as environmentalists – no doubt reflecting their participation in EE programmes. However, low levels of reported environmental behaviours raised questions about what it meant to identify as an environmentalist in Indonesia. We explored students’ understanding of environmental issues at local, national and international levels; what they thought they could do about these issues; the perceived barriers to solving the problems; and who was responsible for solving the problems. Students identified waste/rubbish as the main problem locally, but were not well informed about environmental issues nationally and internationally. They are vague about how to ameliorate environmental problems, reflecting the weakness of EE in problem-solving. They never identified consumption as a problem. According to students, ‘society’ – rather than governments, industry or consumers – is responsible for addressing environmental problems, but they identified society’s lack of environmental knowledge, care and awareness as the main barriers to solving environmental problems.

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印度尼西亚的年轻人如何将自己视为环保主义者

摘要 印度尼西亚对环境意识知之甚少。本文通过对日惹和泗水 1,000 名高中生的调查数据帮助解决这种无知问题。选定的学校参加环境教育 (EE) 计划，例如生态学校计划和 Adiwiyata。几乎 90% 的受访者自称为环保主义者——这无疑反映了他们参与了 EE 计划。然而，报告的低水平环境行为引发了关于在印度尼西亚认定为环保主义者意味着什么的问题。我们在地方、国家和国际层面探索了学生对环境问题的理解；他们认为他们可以对这些问题做些什么；解决问题的感知障碍；谁负责解决问题。学生们认为废物/垃圾是当地的主要问题，但对国内和国际的环境问题知之甚少。他们对如何改善环境问题含糊其辞，反映了EE在解决问题上的弱点。他们从未将消费视为问题。根据学生的说法，“社会”——而不是政府、行业或消费者——负责解决环境问题，但他们认为社会缺乏环境知识、关怀和意识是解决环境问题的主要障碍。他们从未将消费视为问题。根据学生的说法，“社会”——而不是政府、行业或消费者——负责解决环境问题，但他们认为社会缺乏环境知识、关怀和意识是解决环境问题的主要障碍。他们从未将消费视为问题。根据学生的说法，“社会”——而不是政府、行业或消费者——负责解决环境问题，但他们认为社会缺乏环境知识、关怀和意识是解决环境问题的主要障碍。