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Kalla wants OIC countries to implement sciences, technology

Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla wants Islamic states to better implement sciences and technology, in order to ...

Indonesia, US cooperate to combat illegal fishing

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Indonesian Society and Fisheries Foundation ...

Indonesia to repatriate four smuggled orangutans from Thailand

The Indonesian government is preparing a plan to repatriate four orangutans that were smuggled and then found in ...

Indonesia among top 25 countries in food sustainability index

Minister of Agriculture Amran Sulaiman stated here on Monday that Indonesias agriculture was included among the top 25 ...

WWF releases exclusive summary on Borneo on World Environment Day

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Indonesia and Malaysia released an exclusive publication of "The Environmental Status of ...

Indonesia becomes global model for peatland restoration: UNEP

Indonesia is the worlds model for restoring peatlands, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). ...

Coral reefs in Sawu Sea cover 63,339 hectares

The Head of East Nusa Tenggara Provinces Environment Office, Benyamin Lola, stated that various studies have revealed ...

Biotech/GM crops surge to a new peak of 185.1 million hectares in 2016

- Today, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) released its annual report ...

Minister inaugurates Indonesia`s first enzyme production unit

Technology and Higher Education Minister Mohamad Nasir inaugurated a 200-ton annual capacity enzyme production unit ...

Tourists to Raja Ampat must pay additional fee

Local as well as foreign tourists visiting the tourism attractions of Raja Ampat in West Papua Province are required ...

Promoting tourism attractions of Biak

Biak Numfor District was a popular tourist destination in Papua in 1990s, before Raja Ampat was "discovered." ...

EARTH WIRE -- Coral reef destruction during recent shipwreck hurting Raja Ampat tourism

Roughly 1,600 square meters of coral reefs in Raja Ampat District, West Papua Province, are said to have been damaged ...

Expanding red fruit crops in Papua

The Papua provincial government has made every effort to expand the crops of red fruit tree, found very effective for ...

Climate anomaly threatens Indonesia`s biodiversity

La Nina, which is a series of El-Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), could be a threat to the preservation of Indonesias ...

LIPIi to conduct bathymetric mapping in Indian Ocean

The Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) will conduct bathymetric mapping (mapping of sea floor topography) in the ...