#dry spell

Collection of dry spell news, found 53 news.

16 sub-districts in N Sulawesi brace for drought

Sixteen sub-districts in eight districts and municipalities in North Sulawesi have braced for drought during the ...

Four helicopters roped in to battle forest fires in Riau

The Riau forest fire task force has employed four helicopters to douse the conflagration spreading across the southern ...

Baswedan urges Jakartans to conserve water amid unrelenting dry spell

Governor of Jakarta Anies Baswedan drew the serious attention of the residents of the capital city to conserve water, ...

Conflagration razes Mount Pogor forest area

The Mount Pogor forest area, spanning 1,500 meters in Malati Village, Naringgul Sub-district, Cianjur District, West ...

382 hotspots detected in West Kalimantan

The number of hotspots indicating forest fires in West Kalimantan Province jumped to 382 on Thursday morning from 148 ...

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All-out efforts to extinguish wildfires on Sumatra, Kalimantan Islands

Indonesian Defense Forces Commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto, National Police Chief General Tito ...

148 hotspots detected in West Kalimantan

The Supadio meteorology, climatology, and geophysics office has reported a total of 148 hotspots detected in several ...

BPBD confirms fires engulfed 10 hectares of West Kalimantan's peatland

Fires swept through five to 10 hectares of peatland in West Kalimantan Province during the dry spell this year, the ...

Acute respiratory infection cases in South Sumatra reach 274,502

Fires raging through land and forest areas in South Sumatra Province during the January-June 2019 period resulted in ...

Satellites identify 152 hotspots on Sumatra Island

The Terra and Aqua Satellites, on Tuesday, at 6 a.m. local time, detected 152 hotspots on Sumatra Island, including 75 ...

700 Pekanbaru inhabitants suffer from respiratory illness due to haze

Some 700 people in Pekanbaru, Riau Province, currently suffer from respiratory illness as haze from forest fires has ...

Satellites detect 138 hotspots of forest fires in Riau

The Terra and Aqua satellites detected 138 hotspots indicating forest fires in eight districts of Riau Province on ...

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Tackling forest fires in 5 Indonesian provinces

Several children attending the Islam Akramunnas Kindergarten in Pekanbaru, Riau Province, had no option but to wear ...

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Nearly 50 million Indonesians threatened by extreme drought

An El Niño-induced severe dry spell has cast a pall over 100 districts and cities in Indonesia’s provinces ...

Drought threats may affect food prices: researcher

The government would need to seriously address the threat posed by drought as it could lead to the risk of crop ...