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Jakarta remains flood alert until March

Indonesias capital city of Jakarta is always flooded during peak rainy season annually and now is still prone to ...

Task force of forest fire prevention extinguishes land fires

A task force of forest fire prevention workers in Riau province has managed to extinguish the land fires which ...

EARTH WIRE -- TNI wary of forest and land fires in Riau province

The personnel of the Indonesian Army (TNI AD) are wary of the catastrophic forest and land fires in Riau Province, as ...

Floods, landslide hit Sinuruik, West Pasaman

Floods and a landslide have struck the villages of Sunuruik and Talu in Talamau Sub-district, West Pasaman District, ...

Flood emergency response period extended for 14 days in Bima

The flood emergency response period in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, has been extended from January 6 to 19, Data ...

VP leads limited meeting on rehabilitation efforts in Bima

Vice President Jusuf Kalla led a limited meeting to discuss rehabilitation efforts in the Dompu and Bima districts of ...

Yearender - Indonesia successfully fights forest fires in 2016

Many inhabitants of Riau Province have a fleeting sense of relief since, for the first time in the past 18 years, they ...

President prioritizes Pidie public facilities` reconstruction

The Indonesian government accords priority to the construction of public facilities following the earthquake that ...

VP attends World Tsunami Day

Vice President Jusuf Kalla attended a ceremony to commemorate World Tsunami Day, here on Thursday. On the ...

Military personnel help debris clear process in quake-hit Aceh

Some 300 military officers have been deployed to help clear debris of collapsed buildings in the districts of Pidie ...

Agency stresses need for earthquake-resistant buildings

The National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) has stressed the importance of constructing earthquake-resistant ...

650 million ASEAN people live in disaster-prone areas

More than 650 million people in Southeast Asia live in disaster-prone areas, Chief of the Indonesian National Disaster ...

Timor Leste studies disaster management in Kupang

Timor Leste Government officials are in the capital to study disaster management in the East Nusa Tenggara provincial ...

Yogyakarta develops culture-based smart city

The Yogyakarta city administration, in collaboration with IBM computer company, is developing a culture-based smart ...

All-out fight against forest fires in Sumatra, Kalimantan

The Indonesian authorities had a fleeting sense of relief that there had been no haze from forest fires until early ...