#drought

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has confirmed that the government will set up a peatland ecosystem restoration agency ...

Indonesia is seeking to set up a Peatland Ecosystem Restoration Body after the peatlands in Sumatra and Kalimantan ...

Nearly 690 million of the worlds 2.3 billion children live in areas most exposed to climate change, facing higher ...

A new UN-backed report found that in the past 20 years, more than 600,000 people have died as a result of ...

Some 50 thousand tons of imported rice from Vietnam and Thailand will enter Indonesia through the port of Dumai in ...

Rice imported by the Indonesian government has started arriving at some seaports across the country to increase the ...

Bank Indonesia (BI) believes the countrys inflation rate in 2015 will stay below 4 percent, fueled by potential ...

The hazardous haze emanating from the ongoing forest and plantation fires has led to 10 deaths, left 503 thousand ...

Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya said license not yet used for peat land exploitation would be cancelled ...

Forest and peatland fires have protracted over the past several months and triggered widespread haze in the country ...

- Indonesia is now being hit hard by the current prolonged drought induced by El Nino weather phenomena that has ...

The ongoing land and forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan have put the lives of endangered animal species there on ...

The thick hazardous haze shrouding Central Kalimantan over the past two months has become so unbearable that many ...

Two Russian multipurpose Beriev Be-200 Altair amphibious aircraft arrived here on Wednesday to help extinguish forest ...

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said more water-bombing ...