#land and forest fires

Collection of land and forest fires news, found 25 news.

Indonesia to grant 1,4 million hectares of forest to indigenous people

Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni announced that the Indonesian government is committed to granting 1.4 million ...

Indonesia reviews Brazil’s TFFF to boost tropical forest protection

Indonesia supports and is carefully reviewing Brazil’s Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), an international ...

Indonesia updates emission targets, sets peak for 2030

Indonesia has revised its Second Nationally Determined Contribution (SNDC), advancing its peak emissions target to ...

KPI Awards 2023 carries message of environmental concern

The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) held the annual KPI Awards with this year's theme being ...

Police's investigation still underway into Mt Papandayan's wildfire

The West Java police continues to investigate the main cause of a wildfire that ravaged bushes and trees of the Tegal ...

Law enforcement is tool to curbing forest fires: Professor

Law enforcement is one of the potent tools to curb land and forest fires in Indonesia, a professor of forest protection ...

Comitted to ESG, Pertamina develops climate village

PT Pertamina (Persero) has been implementing four community programs, based on adaptation and mitigation approaches as ...

Efforts on to put out wildfires in West Aceh

Personnel from the West Aceh Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) and a joint team of firefighters were striving to ...

South Sumatra police join forest fire control efforts

South Sumatra police have dispatched 159 officers to support the preventive and mitigation efforts of the ...

Jambi police arrest two arsonists for torching land for clearance

Police personnel in Tanjab Timur District, Jambi Province, apprehended two local residents for allegedly torching four ...

NLPSF researcher cautiously supports Indonesia's food-estate program

A senior researcher of the Palangka Raya University's Natural Laboratory of Peat Swamp Forest (NLPSF) suggested ...

Jokowi reminds aides of carbon emission reduction target in 2020

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has jogged his aides’ memory on Indonesia's target to lower greenhouse gas ...

Indonesia takes precautionary measures against forest fires forecast

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Mahfud MD highlighted the government’s ...

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COVID-19 adding to challenge posed by forest fires

With Indonesia still in the grip of the coronavirus, which is known to cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), ...

Indonesia successful in minimizing forest fires, claims minister

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Mahfud MD, has claimed that Indonesia has successfully ...