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Article Tier 2

Kajian Kelimpahan Mikroplastik di Biota Perairan

This Indonesian-language review summarizes research on microplastic accumulation in aquatic organisms, covering fish, invertebrates, and marine mammals from both freshwater and marine environments. Microplastics have been found in organisms across all trophic levels and all aquatic habitat types. The review provides an accessible summary of the scope of microplastic contamination in food chains relevant to human dietary exposure.

2021 Jurnal Ilmu Lingkungan 23 citations
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Dampak Pencemaran Mikroplastik di wilayah Pesisir dan Kelautan

This Indonesian overview examines the problems of microplastic contamination in coastal and marine environments, reviewing the sources, distribution, and ecological effects of plastic pollution. The paper highlights the particular vulnerability of Indonesian coastal areas given high plastic waste generation and limited waste management infrastructure.

2023 Jurnal Pasir Laut 1 citations
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Dampak Mikroplastik terhadap Ekosistem Pesisir: Sebuah Telaah Pustaka

This Indonesian-language review examines the impacts of microplastics on coastal ecosystems, covering effects on marine organisms, sediment quality, and food web dynamics. The paper highlights the vulnerability of tropical coastal environments to plastic pollution from both land-based and marine sources.

2024 INSOLOGI Jurnal Sains dan Teknologi
Review Tier 2

Implikasi Pencemaran Mikroplastik Terhadap Kesehatan Lingkungan Pada Ekosistem Sungai: Literature Review

This Indonesian-language literature review examined the implications of microplastic pollution for environmental health in river ecosystems, drawing on global studies. The review found that microplastics disrupt aquatic food chains and pose risks to organisms and downstream human communities that depend on river water for drinking and agriculture.

2025 Jurnal Kesehatan Tambusai
Systematic Review Tier 1

The presence of microplastics in the Indonesian environment and its effects on health

This systematic review examines microplastic contamination across Indonesian environments, including water, soil, and seafood. The findings confirm that microplastics are present throughout the country's ecosystems and may affect human health through contaminated food and water, which is especially concerning for coastal communities that rely heavily on seafood.

2023 Journal of Public Health in Africa 1 citations
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Keberadaan Plastik di Lingkungan, Bahaya terhadap Kesehatan Manusia, dan Upaya Mitigasi: Studi Literatur

This Indonesian-language literature review examined microplastic presence in the environment, summarizing health risks to humans from microplastic exposure through food and water, the environmental fate of plastic particles, and mitigation strategies including the 3Rs and material substitution to reduce plastic waste pollution.

2021 Jurnal Serambi Engineering 14 citations
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Impacto de la Contaminación Plástica en los Ecosistemas Marinos y su Panorama Actual

This literature review synthesizes evidence on how microplastics cause digestive blockages, cellular damage, and reproductive alterations across marine trophic levels, and evaluates the limitations of current single-use plastic reduction policies in addressing the broader plastic pollution crisis.

2024 Multidisciplinary Collaborative Journal 1 citations
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Microplastics Contamination in the Aquatic Environment of Indonesia: A Comprehensive Review

This review comprehensively summarized microplastic contamination across Indonesian aquatic ecosystems, finding widespread MP presence in rivers, bays, estuaries, beaches, seas, fish, and shellfish, with the highest contamination in water bodies near urban and industrial areas.

2021 Journal of Ecological Engineering 29 citations
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Concentration, distribution, and characteristics of microplastic in estuary, coast and marine organisms in Indonesia: A Preliminary Review

This preliminary review mapped microplastic concentrations and characteristics in estuaries, coastal sediments, and marine organisms across Indonesia based on published studies. Microplastics were widespread across all compartments studied, with fibers dominant in many locations. The review identifies significant data gaps and calls for more coordinated monitoring to understand Indonesia's marine plastic pollution problem.

2022 Akuatikisle Jurnal Akuakultur Pesisir dan Pulau-Pulau Kecil 5 citations
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Plastic Pollution is a Serious Menace to Ecosystem Health with Special Reference to Aquatic Ecosystems and its Associated Challenges, Opportunities, and Mitigations

This review examines how plastic pollution, including microplastics, threatens aquatic ecosystem health, affecting fish, birds, and mammals through ingestion, entanglement, and chemical exposure. Researchers highlighted that our understanding of microplastic dynamics — their release, retention, accumulation, and transfer across ecosystems — remains limited. The study calls for more research into the long-term ecological consequences of microplastic contamination in aquatic environments.

2024 3 citations
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Efectos de la Contaminación Plástica en los Ecosistemas Marinos: Un Análisis Actualizado

This review analyzed current evidence on plastic contamination effects on marine ecosystems, examining physical entanglement, ingestion, chemical toxicity, and microplastic impacts on marine biodiversity and food web structure.

2024 Horizon Nexus Journal. 1 citations
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Cross-ecosystem impacts of plastic pollution: a systematic analysis of environmental threats

A systematic analysis of recent literature on plastic pollution across ecosystems found that microplastics impair organisms through physical ingestion, chemical toxicity, and facilitated transfer of co-contaminants, with cross-ecosystem effects linking terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments.

2025 Brazilian Journal of Development
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Microplastics Pollution in Aquatic Environments: A Comprehensive Review on Distribution, Concentration, Toxicity and Ecological Risks in Southeast Asia

This review covers microplastic distribution, concentration, toxicity, and ecological risks in aquatic ecosystems across Southeast Asia, summarizing the physical and chemical hazards to aquatic organisms including ingestion blockage, bioaccumulation, oxidative stress, and biomagnification.

2025 Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
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Pervasive Microplastics and Zooplankton Abundance in Middle East Region of Java North Sea Indonesia: Spatio-Temporal of an Oceanic System

Researchers conducted spatio-temporal sampling of microplastics from water columns and zooplankton in the Middle East region of the Java North Sea (Jepara and Rembang, Indonesia) from February to August 2024, characterizing microplastic color, shape, size, and abundance by microscopy to assess threats to marine food webs through planktivorous organism ingestion.

2024 The Eurasia Proceedings of Health Environment and Life Sciences
Systematic Review Tier 1

Microplastics in sediment of Indonesia waters : A systematic review of occurrence, monitoring and potential environmental risks

This systematic review compiles research on microplastic pollution in Indonesian water sediments, finding widespread contamination across the country's rivers, lakes, and coastal areas. Since Indonesia is one of the world's largest archipelago nations, this plastic pollution threatens both marine ecosystems and the seafood that local communities depend on.

2023 DEPIK 16 citations
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Environmental Impact of Microplastics in Aquatic Ecosystems: A Review of Current Research and Future Directions

This review examines microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems, covering chemical, biological, and ecological processes beyond simple physical contamination and identifying priority areas for future research directions.

2025 Indus journal of bioscience research.
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Microplastic Pollution in Indonesia: The Contribution of Human Activity to the Abundance of Microplastics

This systematic review of Indonesian microplastic research found that coastal and marine sediments have the highest microplastic abundances, driven by widespread use of cheap single-use plastics and poor waste management across urban and rural areas.

2023 E3S Web of Conferences 1 citations
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Pengaruh Konsumsi Ikan Yang Terkontaminasi Mikroplastik Terhadap Kesehatan Tubuh

This Indonesian-language review synthesises evidence that consuming fish contaminated with microplastics can harm human health, as microplastic particles and adsorbed chemical pollutants transfer from fish tissue into the human body upon ingestion. The paper highlights the fish-to-human exposure pathway as a key public health concern, particularly in regions where seafood is a dietary staple.

2023 Jurnal Kesehatan dan Pengelolaan Lingkungan 1 citations
Meta Analysis Tier 1

Plastic pollution research in Indonesia: State of science and future research directions.

This meta-analysis reviews the state of plastic pollution research in Indonesia, a country identified as one of the top contributors to global plastic waste. The findings highlight significant gaps in data on microplastic contamination in Indonesian waters and ecosystems, which matters because plastic pollution from this region affects global ocean health and the seafood supply chain.

2021
Article Tier 2

Microplastics Characteristics in Water and Sediment From Three Ecosystems on Sari Ringgung Beach, Pesawaran Regency, Lampung Province

Researchers sampled water and sediment across mangrove, seagrass, and coral reef ecosystems at an Indonesian beach, finding microplastic contamination in all three habitats with the mangrove ecosystem showing the highest concentrations — up to 467 particles per kilogram of sediment. Fibers, films, and fragments smaller than 1 mm were the most common forms found, highlighting widespread microplastic pollution across multiple coastal ecosystem types.

2025 Advances in physics research/Advances in Physics Research
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Abundance of Microplastics and Hazard to the Environment in Estuary Water in Pemalang, Central Java, Indonesia

Researchers measured microplastic abundance and types at five sampling locations in the estuary waters of the Pemalang River in Central Java, Indonesia, finding persistent microplastic hazards driven by local human activities and plastic waste inputs.

2023 IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 5 citations
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Microplastics in ecological system: Their prevalence, health effects, and remediation

This review provides an overview of microplastic prevalence across different ecosystems and their potential effects on environmental and human health. The researchers discuss how microplastics enter water, soil, and food chains, and examine the various biological effects documented in organisms. They also review current remediation strategies being developed to address microplastic contamination.

2024 Environmental Nanotechnology Monitoring & Management 8 citations
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A review of plastic and microplastic pollution towards the Malaysian marine environment

This review examined plastic and microplastic pollution in the Malaysian marine environment, documenting contamination sources, distribution patterns, and ecological impacts on marine organisms while identifying research gaps and policy recommendations.

2022 IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 24 citations
Article Tier 2

Ecological risks in a ‘plastic’ world: A threat to biological diversity?

This review synthesized evidence on how microplastic pollution affects biological diversity and community structure across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, finding that most studies document effects at the individual level but that community- and ecosystem-level impacts remain poorly characterized.

2021 Journal of Hazardous Materials 134 citations