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BKSDA reports five deaths in Sumatran tiger-human conflicts in 2019

The South Sumatra Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) confirmed that five people died while 10 others ...

Bintan police curb illegal sand mining sites

The Bintan District police have curbed all illegal sand mining sites in Galang Batang and Malang Rapat areas of Gunung ...

Deforestation in Aceh may reach 35,000 hectare: Walhi

The deforestation rate in Aceh Province may have reached 35 thousand hectares (ha) in the last three years and will ...

Banten collaborates closely with police to curb illegal gold mining

Banten Governor Wahidin Halim affirmed that his team will work closely with the Banten Police to clamp down on illegal ...

Jokowi instructs local authority to halt illegal mining in Banten

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has instructed the local authority to put a halt to illegal gold mining that has fueled ...

Jokowi highlights rationale behind expediting biodiesel program

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) brought to the fore the basis for expediting the implementation of the biodiesel program ...

Indonesia is influencer among nations to use biodiesel fuel

Indonesia has been successful in influencing several nations to use palm oil-based biodiesel fuel, Deputy for Food and ...

Ministry confiscates 17 containers of illegal timber in Surabaya

The Environment and Forestry Ministry confiscated 205.9 cubic meters of illegal timber stored in 17 shipping containers ...

Environmental diplomacy expected to back economic diplomacy

Environmental diplomacy is expected to support economic diplomacy that has been one of Indonesia's priorities on ...

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Greenpeace campaigns on clean energy, alerts Jokowi's cabinet

At least a dozen environmental activists climbed atop the two main monuments in Jakarta on Wednesday, to unfurl a ...

Jokowi should assert his commitment to preserving forests: NGO

The Civil Society Forest Coalition urged President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to avow his pledge to preserving ...

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Taking a cue on new capital city design from Canberra

Indonesia is looking to Australia’s capital Canberra as a reference for its capital city in East Kalimantan, part ...

Indonesia makes concerted efforts to curb coal usage

Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar acknowledged she had coordinated with Energy and Mineral Resources ...

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Indonesian forest fire chokes millions of people, animals

In June 2019, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMK) had warned that this year's dry season is ...

Land clearance for plantations causal to Indonesia's forest fires

Rasio Ridho Sani, director general of law enforcement of the Environmental Affairs and Forestry Ministry, pointed to ...