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Jokowi orders strict monitoring of waste imports

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has ordered strict monitoring of waste imports as their poor management has the ...

Ministry of Industry encourages production of salt

Minister of Industry Airlangga Hartarto encouraged farmers to increase the quality of salt produced so that they could ...

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Mercury-related crimes in Indonesia still elude

Mercury-related crimes elude all, for which involvement of influential leaders or actors, who can bring about changes ...

Government to reclaim regions contaminated by mercury

The government has prepared a national action plan spread over the next few years to reclaim regions exposed to the ...

LIPI inaugurates three professors on oceanography, politics, and conservation

The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) has inaugurated three research professors who work at the Oceanographic ...

Mafia operating on Mount Botak: legislator

Reentry of thousands of illegal gold miners on Mount Botak despite repeated closure by the government is inseparable ...

Nestlé and Starbucks close deal for the perpetual global license of Starbucks Consumer Packaged Goods and Foodservice products

- Nestlé and Starbucks Corporation today announced the closing of the deal granting Nestlé the perpetual rights to ...

Lebanese party warns of contamination in coastal water

Sabaa, a new Lebanese political party, placed Sunday billboards and posters on some beaches in the country to warn ...

Agriculture ministry launches mobile corn drier

The Agriculture Ministry and animal feed producer PT Charoen Pokphand Indonesia have launched a mobile corn drier to ...

EU vows beefed-up measures to prevent food safety crisis

The European Commission and the European Union (EU) member states on Tuesday agreed to take concrete measures to ...

Indonesia to soon ratify Minamata Convention on Mercury

A number of ministries and institutions at a joint meeting with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) on ...

Situation in Syria constitutes international armed conflict: Red Cross

The situation in Syria now "amounts to an international armed conflict" after U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian air ...

Reservoirs still to be tapped to their full potential

Indonesians, like most other people in the world, love to go out for a picnic to unwind at tourism resorts or at other ...

Association forecasts decline in cocoa production

The Indonesian Cocoa Industry Association (AIKI) has forecast a 10 percent decline in domestic cocoa bean production ...

Fish liver best indicator of aquatic pollution: Study

A study shows that a certain enzyme produced by fish liver can be an indicator of aquatic contamination, a professor ...