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Indonesia's Environmental Quality Index up in 2022: ministry

Indonesia's Environmental Quality Index (IKLH) rose by 0.97 points in 2022 compared to the previous year, Director ...

Forest, land fire areas declined by 43 percent in 2022

Indonesia witnessed a 43-percent decline in terms of areas affected by forest and land fires in 2022 as compared to the ...

Ministry rehabilitates 77,103 ha of watersheds, mangroves in 2022

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) has reported that it carried out forest and land rehabilitation (RHL) ...

More companies should become agents of environmental change: VP

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin pressed for the need for more private companies and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to ...

Government pushes acceleration of waste-to-energy processing facility

The government aggressively continues to encourage acceleration of waste-to-energy processing facility with ...

Government promotes waste management education to youth

The government bolsters the younger generation's education of the importance of waste management and reduction of ...

Government launches biomass and coal business partnership

The Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment launched a pilot project for the South Sumatra Biomass ...

Ministries forge better cooperation in enforcing environment

The Environment and Forestry Ministry is establishing stronger cooperation with the Finance Ministry to intensify ...

West Kalimantan builds collaboration under social forestry program

The West Kalimantan provincial government has launched a collaborative scheme under the social forestry program to ...

Ministry strengthens police forest capacity to handle forestry cases

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry is committed to boosting the capacity of the forest police to handle ...

Ministry bolstering forest rangers' role to achieve FoLU Net Sink

The Environment and Forestry Ministry strives to strengthen the role of forest rangers in supporting the ...

Potential to use medicinal plants in medicines, cosmetics: ministry

Indonesia has huge potential to use medicinal plants, which are considered non-timber forest products (HHBK), to make ...

Ministry pushes development of non-timber forest product businesses

The Environment and Forestry Ministry is promoting the development of non-timber forest product businesses, Director ...

Illegal dumping of imported toxic waste serious crime: Ministry

The Environment and Forestry Ministry underscored that illegal dumping of hazardous and toxic waste originating from ...

Ministry, USAID to support FOLU Net Sink plan

The Indonesian Environment and Forestry Ministry and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) ...