#dry season

Collection of dry season news, found 678 news.

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Accelerating rescue operations in flood-hit Sentani

Indonesia has been hit by at least two major floods during this current transitional period from the rainy to the dry ...

S. Sumatra to likely face longer drought: Disaster Mitigation Agency

The South Sumatra Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has forecast that this year's drought may last longer than that ...

Embankment burst displaces over 400 residents of Kulon Progo

A flood embankment collapsed in Bendungan Village, Wates Sub-district, Kulon Progo District, Yogyakarta Special ...

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News Focus -- East Java accelerates flood mitigation efforts

Indonesia is currently transitioning from rainy to the dry season that usually begins in April or May. However, high ...

Flash flood damages 11 homes in east flores

A flash flood has damaged 11 homes in Kawaliwu, Sina Hading Village, Lewoleda Sub-district, East Flores District, ...

Two hotspots detected in Aceh

Two hotspots were detected in Indonesia`s westernmost province of Aceh, a decrease from five hotspots on the previous ...

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MRT reduces Jakarta`s air pollution

Jakarta, the capital and largest city of Indonesia, looks like a flower that attracts bees. Like many of the ...

FAO urges Indonesia to expand use of conservation farming techniques

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has urged Indonesia to expand the use of ...

Public Works Ministry builds 949 retention basins in last four years

The Public Works and Public Housing Ministry has built a total of 949 retention basins over the last four years. In ...

Health Ministry calls for quick response over DHF breakout

Director of Prevention and Control of Vector and Zoonotic Diseases, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, urged health care facilities ...

Norway offers assistance for landscape program of South Sumatra

Norway is one of the donor countries to have offered help for implementing the Sembilang Dangku landscape program in ...

Ministry to convert swamps into agricultural lands

The Ministry of Agriculture is making a breakthrough with a plan to convert swamp areas into agricultural lands, in an ...

News Focus - ITPC expected to promote sustainable peatland ecosystem management by Fardah Assegaf

Peatlands, which are natural areas of the accumulated decayed plant material known as peat, have huge importance as ...

Warning of hydrometeorological disasters issued during rainy season

The rainy season has set in quite late over certain regions but has already induced floods and landslides, claiming ...

Indonesia has int`l tropical peat center

As a country with very large peat-lands, Indonesia has become a reference for countries around the world on peat-land ...