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Ministry targets to complete four dams construction in December

The Public Works and Public Housing Ministry has targeted to complete the construction of four dams by end of December ...

Deployment of South Sumatra's fire task force continues despite rains

The South Sumatra provincial police is continuing to deploy hundreds of its personnel to combat forest and land fires ...

Asia-Pacific nations plan COVID-19 response for addressing hunger: FAO

Asia-Pacific nations convened the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) virtual conference to ...

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Indonesia's weather is a study in contrasts

Indonesia is preparing anticipatory measures against extreme weather events as it is prone to hydro-meteorological ...

Ministry prepares strict sanctions on slash-and-burn farming

The Agriculture Ministry is considering imposing strict sanctions, in accordance with plantation law number 39 of 2014, ...

Four districts in SE Sulawesi experience days without rain: BMKG

The districts of Bombana, Muna, Central Buton, and South Buton in Southeast Sulawesi Province have experienced several ...

Efforts on to put out wildfires in West Aceh

Personnel from the West Aceh Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) and a joint team of firefighters were striving to ...

South Sumatra police join forest fire control efforts

South Sumatra police have dispatched 159 officers to support the preventive and mitigation efforts of the ...

Satellites identify 23 hotspots of forest fires in North Sumatra

The Terra and Aqua satellites as well as the NOAA20 satellites unearthed 23 medium-category hotspots in North Sumatra ...

Helicopters drop 4.6 million liters water in South Sumatra

Aerial firefighting helicopters dropped over 4.6 million liters of water to help douse forest and land fires at 51 ...

Southern Indonesia's regions arid, equator still receiving rains: BMKG

Dry season has set in most of Indonesia's southern part, though high rainfall can potentially still be received in ...

Jokowi reminds aides of carbon emission reduction target in 2020

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has jogged his aides’ memory on Indonesia's target to lower greenhouse gas ...

Indonesia takes precautionary measures against forest fires forecast

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Mahfud MD highlighted the government’s ...

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COVID-19 adding to challenge posed by forest fires

With Indonesia still in the grip of the coronavirus, which is known to cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), ...

PUPR Ministry to remodel irrigation system in planned food estate

The Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) Ministry has decided to redesign the irrigation system in the planned Food ...