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news focus: govt to rehabilitate critically degraded lakes

Hundreds of lakes or reservoirs which are vital to human life in Indonesia are now in bad or even critical condition ...

British minister calls on C Kalimantan people to preserve forests

The visiting United Kingdom`s environment minister, Jim Paice, here Friday called on the Central Kalimantan people ...

RI govt to speed up paddy planting amid drought

In spite of the drought, the government is ready to begin paddy planting this month, in an effort to cover this year`s ...

Bataan nuke plant conversion to coal or gas not feasible - Napocor

The conversion of the mothballed 600-megawatt Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) to either coal or gas-fired power ...

Subsidy in 2012 will be reduced: President Yudhoyono

The government plans to reduce subsidy in 2012 to be Rp208.9 trillion from Rp237.2 trillion in 2011, President Susilo ...

Population boom threatens food supply

Population boom in Indonesia in the next few years may threaten food supply, according to Chairman of the National ...

Migratory birds arrive in Riau forests

Hundreds of migratory raptors and Tringa brevipe birds have arrived in forest areas along the coast of Rupat Isle, ...

Lombok gets 60 thousand more gas packages

The government has agreed to provide 60,000 more subsidized liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) packages for Lombok Island, ...

W. Kalimantan`s district of landak has 300,000-hectare forest

Landak district, West Kalimantan province, has 300,000 hectares of forest or 30 percent of the whole area of the ...

S Sulawesi`s cocoa bean exports wown 34 pct

South Sulawesi`s cocoa bean exports through Makassar`s Soekarno-Hatta Seaport, in the January-June 2011 period fell ...

Haze comes back in Sumatra and Kalimantan

Haze has come back on Sumatra and Kalimantan Islands over the past few weeks, affecting the environment, the local ...

East Kotawaringin forms command post to tackle forest fires

The East Kotawaringin district administration has set up a command post to deal with forest and plantation fires. ...

More Indonesian bird species nearing extinction

More Indonesian bird species are threatened by extinction due to the loss of their habitat to forest destruction or ...

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) ...

Environment minister launches national ecoregion

Environmental Affairs Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta here Wednesday launched a National Ecoregion which is designed to ...