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Indonesia eyes inclusion of Meratus Mountains into UGGp list: ministry

Indonesian Tourism Minister Arief Yahya expressed keenness on witnessing the inclusion of Meratus Mountains in South ...

Agriculture Minister launches BUN 500 program in Central Kalimantan

Agriculture Minister Amran Sulaiman launched the BUN 500 program in Sidomulyo Village, Palangka Raya City, Central ...

Meratus Mountains has smallest squirrel in the world

The Meratus Mountains in South Kalimantan Province, which is a wet tropical forest, is home to one of the smallest ...

Better efforts needed for disaster preparedness and mitigation

Natural disasters that have hit Indonesia up to June 2017 include floods (37.4 percent), whirlwinds (29.2 percent), ...

Banjarmasin`s rivers as drivers of urban development

Banjarmasin, the capital city of South Kalimantan province, stands proudly on the banks of many rivers, with its ...

73 hotspots detected in Barito, C. Kalimantan

The Terra and Aqua satellites detected 73 hotspots indicating forest fires along Barito River that flows through the ...

Annual floods hit parts of Indonesia

Typically, January and February are the peak months of the rainy season in Indonesia, which mostly results in flooding ...

President Yudhoyono shops at floating market in South Kalimantan

President Susilo Yudhoyono and First Lady Ani Yudhoyono shopped at Muara Kuin floating market in Barito River, ...

Huge vessels can now pass through Barito River

The water level in Barito River in North Barito and Murung Raya District of Central Kalimantan has increased, making ...

Rattan export ban makes its farmers miserable

The ban on the export of raw and semi processed rattan materials has made rattan farmers and entrepreneurs in ...

Search still continues for 7 passengers of boat in Barito

Rescue workers are still searching for 7 missing passengers of a speedboat capsized on Saturday in the Barito river ...

Ministry checking ship operators` adherence to safety rules

Following the recent spate of tragic shipping accidents, the Transportation Ministry has begun an audit of marine ...

Fire guts passenger ship, three killed, over 100 injured

A passenger ship, the MV Marine Nusantara, was gutted by a fire that killed three people, injured 26 others seriously ...

Govt aims to produce billions of ornamental fish

Indonesia expects to produce three billion ornamental fish this year, an official of the ministry of fisheries and ...

BPS : Q2 economic growth 6.43 pct

Head of the Central Kalimantan Board of Statistics (BPS) Panusunan Siregar said according to constant prices of gross ...