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World Environment Day focuses on forests

The government organized an Indonesian Environment Week expo in Jakarta June 1-5 to mark World Environment Day (WED) ...

Garuda plants thousands of trees at Gunung Padang

National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia Airlines planted thousands of trees at Gunung Padang forests in West Sumatra ...

Tour de Singkarak offers prize, W Sumatra distinctive landscape

Tour de Singkarak bike race with the participation of 234 cyclists including foreign teams of West Sumatra province ...

W Sumatera govt urged to act against illegal loggers

The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has renewed its call for the West Sumatra provincial government to ...

Black pants for Tour de Singkarak cyclists

The Tanah Datar district administration will present the "Sarawa Galembong", Minangkabau traditional black pants that ...

4.5-magnitude earthquake hits Maura Labuh

An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale jolted Muara Labuh in Solok Selatan district, West Sumatra, at 6.33 ...

RI Establishes Parks To Mark Biodiversity Day

Environmental Affairs Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta has inaugurated several biodiversity parks to mark International ...

RI establishes parks to mark biodiversity day

Environmental Affairs Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta has inaugurated several biodiversity parks to mark International ...

Environment minister asks local govts to make biodiversity data

Environmental Affairs Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta has asked the local administrations in Indonesia to collect data ...

W Sumatra to produce 150 thousand tons of fish

The West Sumatra government has set itself the target of producing 150 thousand tons of cultured fish this year, West ...

Winning bidders of three oil/gas blocks announced

The Indonesian government announced the three winning bidders for three oil and gas blocks auctioned through a regular ...

PSSI hopes to elect new chairman at upcoming congress

The Indonesian Soccer Association (PSSI) will hold a congress here on Friday (May 20, 2011) which is expected to ...

Rp 39.38 bln to rebuild quake-hit W Sumatra schools

The government has allocated Rp39.38 billion in funds to reconstruct 179 school buildings in West Sumatra destroyed ...

Coalition air strikes on Libya draw condemnation in Indonesia

The western coalition`s air strikes on Libya have been denounced as unacceptable by various parties in Indonesia ...

Two-hundred-plus Indonesians in Japan still unaccounted for

As many as 267 Indonesian citizens in Japan are still unaccounted for following a huge earthquake and tsunami on ...