#drought

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Wildfires destroyed 222 hectares of land in West Aceh

Wildfires in West Aceh District, Aceh Province, had destroyed some 222.5 hectares (ha) of land and forest areas in ...

Better efforts needed for disaster preparedness and mitigation

Natural disasters that have hit Indonesia up to June 2017 include floods (37.4 percent), whirlwinds (29.2 percent), ...

Wildfires gutted over 60 hectares of Aceh forest

Wildfires have gutted more than 60 hectares of forest and bush areas in West Aceh District, Aceh Darussalam Province, ...

28 hotspots detected on Sumatra Island

The Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has detected 28 hotspots, indicating forest and ...

Greenpeace Indonesia protests US climate policy

Greenpeace Indonesia staged a protest in front of the US embassy here on Wednesday over the decision of President ...

Farmers in Adonara facing crop failure

Farmers in Adonara Island, East Flores District in East Nusa Tenggara Province, are experiencing crop failure due to ...

Pope says wants to make trip to South Sudan with Anglican leader

Pope Francis said on Sunday he wants to make a trip to South Sudan together with the head of the Anglican Church to ...

Pope Francis appeals for urgent food aid to help famine-stricken South Sudan

Pope Francis called on Wednesday for urgent humanitarian aid for the starving people of South Sudan, saying millions ...

Indonesia continues to conduct humanitarian diplomacy: FM Marsudi

Indonesia has continued to conduct humanitarian diplomacy in a bid to contribute to global peace and prosperity, ...

Indonesia sends aid to drought-hit Sri Lanka

As a friend, Indonesia will help Sri Lanka, which is currently facing a food crisis because of drought, President Joko ...

Indonesia needs to rejuvenate palm oil plantations

With some 11.6 million hectares of plantations, Indonesia needs to rejuvenate its palm oil trees to maintain its ...

Indonesia accounts for 58 percent of sustainable palm oil production

Indonesia accounts for 58 percent of the worlds sustainable production of palm oil, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm ...

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 ...

CPO export drops but price on the rise

Indonesias export of crude palm oil (CPO) and its derivatives fell by nearly 2 percent to 25.7 million tons in 2016 ...

Indonesia`s palm oil exports down 2 percent in 2016

Indonesias export of crude palm oil (CPO) and its derivatives fell by nearly 2 percent to 25.7 million tons in 2016 ...