sustainability Article Geography Education for Promoting Sustainability in Indonesia Nabila Nurul Hawa 1 , Sharifah Zarina Syed Zakaria 1, *, Muhammad Rizal Razman 2, * and Nuriah Abd Majid 1   Citation: Hawa, N.N.; Zakaria, S.Z.S.; Razman, M.R.; Majid, N.A. Geography Education for Promoting Sustainability in Indonesia. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4340. https:// doi.org/10.3390/su13084340 Academic Editor: Eija Yli-Panula Received: 1 March 2021 Accepted: 10 April 2021 Published: 13 April 2021 Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affil- iations. Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). 1 Research Centre for Environment, Economic and Social Sustainability (KASES), Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor 43600, Malaysia; nabila.geo@gmail.com (N.N.H.); nuriah@ukm.edu.my (N.A.M.) 2 Research Centre for Sustainability Science and Governance (SGK), Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia * Correspondence: szarina@ukm.edu.my (S.Z.S.Z.); mrizal@ukm.edu.my (M.R.R.) Abstract: Education for the environment and sustainable development is the one important thing for being studied. At formal school in Indonesia, it was integrated into the subject matter like social science, natural science, geography, or biology. The study about geography education for promoting sustainability had not been thoroughly done in Indonesia. Therefore, this study examined and investigated articles about geography learning and sustainability in Indonesia from 2010 to 2020. The materials were searched through the Garuda and ERIC application, by using keywords related to geography education. It was selected to published articles in journals indexed by Scopus and Sinta. The data were analyzed by a qualitative method with a content analysis approach. The foci of analysis are topics of sustainability elements, learning methods and models, learning media and resources, and students’ assessment in geography learning. All of these were investigated in concern to their relationships and achievements to sustainable development goals (SDGs). As a result, the topics of geography education in Indonesia have contained three main elements of sustainability, namely environment which the most stated, then social, and economic. The learning model and method that was mostly used was outdoor learning with contextual method. The learning media that mostly mentioned were maps, while the learning resources were local wisdom. Aspects of students’ assessment that mostly studied in geography education for promoting sustainability were students’ knowledge, attitude, and skills. Overall, this study has shown that the topics related to sustainability elements contained in the articles on geography education in Indonesia includes their learning components. Keywords: geography education; geography; sustainability; environment; sustainable develop- ment; Indonesia 1. Introduction Education is one form of an effort to realize Sustainable Development Goals. It also plays an important role in enhancing sustainability and improving human capacity in addressing environmental issues [1]. As stated in the agenda for sustainable development, all students at every level of education have the right to acquire knowledge and skills to promote sustainable development [2]. Indonesia is one of the countries contributing to the success of this agenda [3,4]. Education for promoting sustainability is being an agenda at all levels and subject matters, including geography. Geography is a discipline that studies the environment includes social and natural sciences [5]. The materials studied in geography consist of various geosphere phenomena that occur on the earth’s surface, including their relationships and effects on human life and other living things in spatial dimensions [6]. The main concepts that are often used in geography education are space, area, and the environment, including sustainability. Thus, Sustainability 2021, 13, 4340. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084340 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability