#dry season

Collection of dry season news, found 686 news.

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 ...

News focus - Anticipating dengue fever in rainy season by Otniel Tamindael

People across Indonesia should give serious attention to the outbreak of dengue fever, because the acute infectious ...

15 villages in Karawang affected by prolonged drought

Fifteen villages in three sub-districts in Karawang District, West Java Province, have been affected by severe dry ...

News Focus -Floods strike Sumatra as rainy season begins

Rainy season has begun in some parts of Indonesia, particularly on Sumatra Island, but the dry season has continued in ...

Prolonged drought triggers wildfires on mountains in Java

Some parts of Indonesia`s regions have entered the rainy season, while several others, such as Java and Nusa Tenggara ...

BRG claims less hot spots detected in intervened peatland

Indonesia`s Peat land Restoration Agency (BRG) has claimed that fewer hot spots were found in the peat land area under ...

Drought hits 11 districts in East Nusa Tenggara

A total of 11 districts in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) have been hit by severe dry season, a local official stated. No ...

80 hotspots detected across Sumatra Island

The number of hotspots detected across Sumatra Island increased to 80 on Wednesday, from 13 on the previous day. Of ...