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Abstract

This article analyses how commoning practices are mobilized to address ecological problems in Indonesia and highlights the contributions of youth and faith-based initiatives in the process, focusing on their inventive use of media, cultural, and religious forms. Based on two case studies of a community-run festival in Yogyakarta and a waqf forest project in Bogor, it traces how environmental activism becomes a vigorous arena for intersectoral collaboration, new communal imaginaries, and affective and spiritual reorientations. Situating them in the broader literatures on commoning, affect, media, and religion, the article proposes the idea of sacred commoning to describe the affective processes through which nature is reinvested with sacrality and reimagined as an ethical site of mutual care. Through the diverse case studies, the article shows the intricate ways in which environmental activism and commoning practices intertwine and are enacted within Indonesia’s culturally, religiously, and institutionally heterogeneous landscape.

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