CLOSED: EJN Virtual Media Workshop on Business and Climate Reporting in Indonesia — Applications Ended 15 December 2025, Workshop Held January 2026

CLOSED: EJN Virtual Media Workshop on Business and Climate Reporting in Indonesia — Applications Ended 15 December 2025, Workshop Held January 2026

This opportunity is over. The Earth Journalism Network (EJN) ran its five-day virtual media workshop on business engagement with climate change for Indonesian journalists in January 2026. Applications closed at 11:59 PM Jakarta time on 15 December 2025, successful applicants were notified in the second week of January 2026, and the sessions were delivered online on 22, 23, 24, 30 and 31 January 2026 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Jakarta time. The official EJN page for the call now displays the status “Application closed.”

This was a one-off, country-specific workshop rather than an annual program with a fixed cycle. As of 27 July 2026, EJN has not posted a successor Indonesia business-and-climate workshop. If you are looking for something you can actually apply to today, go straight to the EJN opportunities index, which is refreshed continuously and lists open calls with their deadlines.

An earlier version of this page pointed to an earthjournalism.us.auth0.com login address rather than the public listing. That address was never the call itself; it was the identity-provider screen that EJN’s website hands you when you try to reach a member-only application form without a session. It returned an authentication error to anyone following it cold and redirected to the EJN homepage. The link on this page has been corrected to the public opportunity page, which anyone can read without an account.

At-a-glance: what this call was

Why EJN ran this workshop

Indonesia’s government has set out a route to peak emissions around 2030 and reach net zero by 2060 or sooner. EJN’s call framed the problem bluntly: Climate Action Tracker rates the country’s progress toward a low-carbon economy as limited, with little meaningful movement in the sectors that matter most. Coal and electricity sit at the center of that gap, alongside the mining of critical minerals for new energy technology and the question of what happens to the workers whose livelihoods depend on the incumbent industries.

EJN’s argument for training journalists specifically on the private sector followed from that. A just transition needs an enforceable legal framework from policymakers, and it needs the affected industries to be both held to account for their environmental impact and brought into the transition rather than left to obstruct it. Public debate in Indonesia, the call noted, tends to circle a narrow set of topics — coal job losses, the state electricity company’s capacity surplus, the environmental cost of critical-mineral mining — while the openings the transition creates for businesses and workers get far less coverage. Reporters who can read a corporate climate claim, check it against filings and policy documents, and explain what it means for readers are in short supply.

That gap is what the five sessions were built to close: give working Indonesian journalists enough grounding in energy, ESG, carbon markets and climate finance that they could interrogate the private sector’s role instead of reprinting its announcements, and debunk mis- and disinformation about renewable energy with something firmer than opinion.

What the five days covered

EJN published the theme of each session in the call, and told selected participants a detailed agenda would follow:

• Day 1 — Energy transition and industrial sectors in Indonesia, including greenwashing practices.
• Day 2 — Technology transformation and new business opportunities in renewable energy.
• Day 3 — ESG implementation, covering both regulations and private sector involvement.
• Day 4 — Carbon markets: how they work, and the potential of green and blue carbon.
• Day 5 — Climate finance, international and domestic.

Subject-matter experts led the sessions, and time was set aside for participants to talk through story pathways they could pursue as Indonesia works toward its climate targets. The split across two weeks — three consecutive days, then a gap, then two more — gave participants room to absorb the first block before the carbon and finance material.

Who was eligible

Applications were open to journalists working in any medium — online, print, television or radio — at any type of organization, whether community-based, local, national or international, anywhere in Indonesia. Freelancers and staff journalists were both welcome. EJN said it particularly encouraged applications from women, rural, Indigenous and early-career journalists.

Applications were accepted in English and Bahasa Indonesia, and EJN published a Bahasa Indonesia version of the call for applications alongside the English one.

One condition is worth carrying forward to any future EJN application you write: applicants were required to be transparent about their use of generative AI tools, if any, in preparing their proposals. EJN reserved the right to disqualify anyone found to have engaged in unethical or improper conduct, and named submitting AI-generated content as your own work as an example. EJN maintains published guidance on generative AI in environmental journalism, and its calls consistently enforce this.

What participants received

There was no participation fee and no stipend. The value sat in two places.

The first was the certificate. Journalists who attended all five sessions received a certificate of completion from EJN — attendance at part of the series did not qualify.

The second, and the more substantial one, was the story grant pathway. Participants who completed the workshop became eligible to apply for a story grant afterward, to produce and publish reporting on the issues covered. EJN structures many of its trainings this way: the workshop builds the reporting capacity, and a separate competitive grant call funds the work that comes out of it. The grant was never automatic — eligibility to apply is not an award — and its terms were set in the grant call rather than in the workshop announcement.

Where the Business and Climate Media Initiative went next

The workshop sat inside EJN’s Business and Climate Media Initiative, and BCMI has kept moving in the region since the Indonesia sessions ended.

In February 2026, EJN announced four seed grants under BCMI for media organizations in Indonesia and Thailand, aimed at helping newsrooms start a new activity or reporting initiative on business and climate. Two went to Indonesian outlets. Narasi, a digital outlet founded in 2017, took a project called “Beyond Green” that investigates whether industries celebrated as green and sustainable live up to those claims, with a three-part investigative series on biomass greenwashing in Gorontalo, a documentary on bottled water, and a short film on Jakarta’s green transport problems. Bisnis Indonesia, a business daily first published in 1985, took “Jelajah Pengurusan Sampah” (Sorting Through Waste Management), examining how economic and business interests shape national waste policy through field coverage, a multimedia series and stakeholder forums. In Thailand, the independent non-profit Prachatai received support to investigate that country’s clean energy transition, carbon markets and clean air enforcement.

The pattern tells you something useful about how BCMI operates: workshops, seed grants for organizations and story grants for individual reporters roll out country by country as funding and partnerships allow, rather than on a fixed annual calendar. A quiet stretch for Indonesia does not mean the initiative has stopped.

What EJN has open instead

As of 27 July 2026, the EJN opportunities index lists several live calls, none of them a repeat of this Indonesia workshop:

• Story Grants to Report on Business Responses to Climate Change in Thailand — run with the Thai Journalist Club and Data Hatch, deadline 2 August 2026. This is the closest thematic relative currently open, but it is restricted to Thai journalists.
• Media Grants to Support Coverage of Countries’ Progress Toward the 30x30 Marine Conservation Target 2026-2027 — for newsrooms and media organizations in coastal countries, with particular focus on Ghana, Mexico and the Philippines, deadline 10 August 2026.
• Virtual Media Workshop on Forest Governance — a two-day online workshop on 21-22 October 2026 for journalists from Ghana, Liberia and Cameroon, with journalists in forest-risk-commodity consumer markets such as the EU, UK, China and India also encouraged to apply, deadline 13 August 2026.
• Workshop for Communicators and Content Creators on Renewable Energy in Agra, India — in person in Uttar Pradesh, 24-26 September 2026, deadline 16 August 2026.

Deadlines move and calls close, so check the index rather than relying on this list.

EJN also runs a regional relative of this workshop, the Virtual Training for Journalists Reporting on Business and Climate Change, which has previously covered business and finance journalists across Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Thailand and likewise led into story grant eligibility. That page is the one to watch if you want a multi-country version of the same training, though there is no open round on it right now.

If EJN repeats an Indonesia call, be ready for this

The application window here was short — the call went up on 18 November 2025 and closed on 15 December 2025, under four weeks. EJN calls generally run on that timescale, which means preparation has to happen before the announcement, not after.

Practical steps that would have helped for this call and will help for the next one:

• Create your EJN account now. Applications run through an account on earthjournalism.net. EJN’s own instructions note that after a website update, returning users may need to reset their password via “Forgot password?” on the login page. Sorting that out in a hurry on deadline day is how people miss windows. EJN publishes step-by-step PDFs for creating an account and for resetting a password.
• Keep three current clips ready. Recent, relevant to business, energy, environment or economic policy, and reachable at a stable link.
• Have one specific story idea, not a learning goal. “I want to check whether a named smelter’s procurement claims match its actual grid contracts” beats “I want to learn about the energy transition.” Reviewers selecting 30 people from a national field are looking for reporting that will actually get published.
• Decide your application language deliberately. Where EJN accepts Bahasa Indonesia as well as English, write in whichever gives you more precision.
• Be explicit about any AI use. Disclose it plainly. Do not submit generated text as your own.
• Subscribe to the EJN newsletter. It carries new opportunities as they post, which is the difference between a four-week window and a four-day scramble.

Frequently asked questions

Can I still apply to this workshop? No. The deadline was 15 December 2025 and the sessions were held in January 2026. The official page shows “Application closed.”

Was there a fee? No. The workshop was free and delivered online, so there were no travel costs.

Is there a 2027 edition? Nothing has been announced. EJN has not listed a successor Indonesia business-and-climate workshop as of 27 July 2026, and this call was not framed as recurring.

I found a login link for this workshop. Should I use it? No. Auth0 login addresses circulating for this call are session artifacts of EJN’s website, not application forms. Start from the public opportunity page or the opportunities index and use the “Apply now” button there.

Did every participant get a story grant? No. Completing the workshop made a participant eligible to apply for one. The grants themselves were competitive and governed by their own call.

Who do I contact about EJN opportunities? [email protected]. EJN asks specifically that you not contact other Internews addresses about its calls.

Official links

• Official call page (closed): Virtual Media Workshop to Strengthen Reporting on Business Engagement with Climate Change in Indonesia
• All current EJN calls: Earth Journalism Network — Opportunities
• Program behind the workshop: Business and Climate Media Initiative
• BCMI seed grants announced February 2026: EJN Launches 4 Seed Grants for New Programming on Business and Climate Change in Indonesia and Thailand
• Regional equivalent training: Virtual Training for Journalists Reporting on Business and Climate Change