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Fires ravage 60 hectares land in Bintan in one week

Fires have laid to waste around 60 hectares of peatland and bushland in Bintan district, Riau Islands province in the ...

Earthquake of magnitude 5.6 hits Wamena

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake rattled Wamena City in the easternmost Indonesian province of Papua on Friday at 8:16 ...

FPI shooting: 3 cops remain under scanner

Three personnel from the Jakarta Metropolitan Police are still being investigated over the deaths of six FPI members on ...

Ice, snow fire up China's winter wonderland

On a bitterly cold morning, the screams and cheers from the tourists broke the peace of the forest sea and snow plain ...

No oil spills after Fajar Baru 8 caught fire: authority

The Sorong port authority in West Papua Province confirmed on Tuesday that no resulting oil pollution at sea occurred ...

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Daily disasters bring mitigation, prevention to fore

The Indonesian people need to find a way to live with natural disasters considering the nation’s geographic ...

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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 ...

Forest, land fires down by 82% in 2020: Mahfud MD

  The incidence of forest and land fires declined by around 82 percent in the past year, based on data ...

Mataram city govt plans to return disaster relief funds: official

The Mataram city government is planning to return the disaster relief funds allocated by the government for repairing ...

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Voice of the people prompts President to roll back liquor regulation

Indonesian President Joko Widodo rolled back a presidential regulation allowing investments in the liquor industry on ...

Fire razes nine homes in Aceh

A fire gutted nine homes in Mutiara village in the westernmost Indonesian province of Aceh early on Tuesday morning and ...

West Kalimantan police name eight suspects in forest, land fires

The West Kalimantan Provincial Police have named eight suspects in seven cases of forest and land fires in the province ...

Two members of Poso terror group killed in firing incident

Two members of the East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) operating in Poso, Central Sulawesi, were shot dead in an exchange ...

Riau's BPBD stations 6,000 personnel to prevent, handle forest fires

The Regional Disaster Mitigation Office (BPBD) of Riau Province, in collaboration with other related offices, stationed ...

Police arrests resident on charge of igniting fire on 5 ha of land

West Kalimantan Police have arrested a resident of Kubu Raya District  on charge of igniting land fire in Bansir ...