Contextual and psychosocial factors predicting sanitation behaviours in rural Indonesia.

Background: Rural areas in the Southern hemisphere bear the brunt of inadequate sanitation services and high prevalence of open defecation. Our study in an Indonesian remote village underscores the critical role of psychosocial factors influencing sanitation behavior in such marginalised communities. This study explores contextual and RANAS (Risk, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities, and Self-regulation) psychosocial factors determining sanitation behaviour in rural Indonesia.

Relationship between chlorophyll-a, rainfall, and climate phenomena in tropical archipelagic estuarine waters.

Similar to many estuaries worldwide with sources receiving nitrogen and phosphorus, i.e., nutrients, from point and diffuse sources, the waters in Jakarta Bay, Musi Estuary, and Rokan Estuary in Indonesia are facing negative impacts on water quality and ecosystems, i.