#environmental affairs and forestry

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Central Sulawesi's forests damaged by illegal logging, mining: ranger

Illegal logging, mining, and encroachment have caused damage to Central Sulawesi's forests, according to Acting ...

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Balancing new capital development with orangutan habitat preservation

The Joko Widodo (Jokowi) administration is accelerating the development of the new capital named Nusantara— an ...

Ministry's team tasked with tackling NTT's sea pollution and damage

The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP), East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) government, and the United Nations ...

Indonesia needs medical waste depots at regional level

Local governments need COVID-19 medical waste disposal depots to overcome a lack of access to services for processing ...

Sako Suban villagers oppose coal road inside South Sumatra forest

Villagers of Sako Suban, Musi Banyuasin, South Sumatra, urged the environmental affairs and forestry ministry to review ...

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Indonesia looks to domestic tourists for tourism revival in 2021

The government is optimistic of ecotourism being among the driving forces for comprehensively implementing a green ...

Forest conservation crucial for bee preservation: ministry

The Ministry of Environmental Affairs and Forestry has said that forest conservation is an important part of efforts to ...

Ecotourism can become green economy driving force: deputy minister

Ecotourism could become one of the driving forces for Indonesia’s green economy, Deputy Minister of Environmental ...

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Food estate projects must not contribute to deforestation: experts

The Indonesian government last year started developing a food estate project in Pulang Pisau district, Central ...

Environmental NGO JPIK cautions Indonesia of ongoing deforestation

Independent Forestry Monitoring Network (JPIK) cautioned the government and relevant parties of ongoing deforestation ...

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Stringent law enforcement crucial to keep forest fire cases down

Indonesia, home to the world's third-largest tropical rainforests, has been successful in significantly reducing ...

Stamp out forest fires before they spread: Jokoowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has directed regional government heads as well as local military (TNI) and police ...

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Preserving Indonesia's mangroves crucial for climate change mitigation

Indonesia, which is home to one of the world’s largest mangrove forests, has set a target of rehabilitating 150 ...

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Indonesia enters 2021 with "abnormal" natural disasters

As a country located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, Indonesia is prone to natural disasters such as volcano eruption, ...

Stop unsustainable exploitation of natural resources: MP

Economic activities that exploit natural resources and make the environmental carrying capacity unsustainable must be ...