Greta Thunberg continues to speak out fearlessly about the climate\ncrisis, the suffering of people and oppression around the world. She\nfights not for herself, but for a better world.<\/p>\n
Jakarta (ANTARA) \u2013 Greta Thunberg is 23 years old and is one of the\nworld\u2019s most influential and prominent environmental activists.<\/p>\n
A candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, she has been arrested\nseven times in different countries over her protests. She has reportedly\nbeen mistreated by authorities, but Greta, who became an activist at the\nage of 15, has never given up.<\/p>\n
On Thursday (16 October), she posted on her Instagram account, @gretathunberg<\/span>, a\nvideo from a woman in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, wearing a\nrespirator mask and goggles. Behind her, haze from forest and land fires\ncan be seen covering trees and houses.<\/p>\n The post by the Swedish activist said: \u201cHelp us support firefighters,\nbuild more shelters from the haze to protect communities\u2014especially\nchildren and vulnerable groups\u2014and save the forests that remain.\u201d<\/p>\n As of Friday (22 October), Greta Thunberg\u2019s post had received 683,000\nlikes, been reposted 223,000 times and shared 50,800 times. Her\nInstagram account has 17.1 million followers.<\/p>\n Her full name is Greta Tintin Eleonora Emman Thunberg. She was born\non 3 January 2003 in Stockholm, Sweden. Between 2023 and 2025, she was\narrested in Sweden and the United Kingdom. In April 2024, she was\narrested in The Hague, the Netherlands, while leading an environmental\nprotest blocking a motorway.<\/p>\n In October 2025, Greta joined hundreds of Global Sumud Flotilla\nactivists carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, Palestine. Their boats were\nintercepted by the Israeli Navy in the Mediterranean. Greta and several\nother activists were detained at the port of Ashdod, 40 kilometres south\nof Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n \u201cGreta Thunberg was wrapped in an Israeli flag and displayed like a\ntrophy,\u201d Italian journalist Lorenzo D\u2019Agostino told the Turkish news\nagency Anadolu on Sunday (5 October 2025). He said Greta had been\nharassed, insulted and treated roughly in an Israeli prison, and had not\nreceived enough food or water.<\/p>\n Turkish journalist Ersin Celik said he witnessed Israeli soldiers\nabusing Greta. \u201cThey dragged Greta by her hair in front of our eyes,\nbeat her and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag,\u201d Ersin told Anadolu on\nSunday (25 May).<\/p>\n Greta first came to public attention at the age of 15, when she began\na school strike outside the Swedish parliament in August 2018, ahead of\nSweden\u2019s general election. She was alone, accompanied by a cardboard\nsign she had written: \u201cSkolstrejk f\u00f6r klimatet\u201d (\u201cSchool Strike for\nClimate\u201d).<\/p>\n The ninth-grade student at Franska Skolan in Stockholm began the\nprotest in response to a heatwave and forest fires in Sweden, as well as\nwhat she saw as the government\u2019s slow response to the climate\ncrisis.<\/p>\n Every Friday, Greta went on strike, demanding that the government cut\ncarbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. At first, nobody paid\nattention. But Greta did not give up: she went on strike again the\nfollowing Friday, continuing for months and even years. Through social\nmedia, the movement spread beyond Sweden and across five continents.<\/p>",
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