#fires in riau

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Indonesian military deploys over one thousand soldiers to extinguish fires

The Indonesian Military (TNI) has deployed 1,250 soldiers to extinguish forest fires in Riau Province after President ...

Six hot spots detected in Riau

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) detected six hot spots in Riau province on Monday. ...

Six hotspots detected on Sumatra Island

Six hotspots indicating forest and plantation fires were detected on Sumatra Island, according to the Pekanbaru ...

Riau Police name 15 suspects over forest fires in Riau

The Riau Police has named 15 arsonists as suspects responsible for the forest fires that occurred in January and ...

20 hectares of tourism forest areas in Batam catch fire

The Fire Danger Mitigation of the Batam Concession Agency has reported that in the last two weeks, at least 20 ...

Haze blankets Bagansiapi-api, Riau

Haze from forest and plantation fires blanketed Bagansiapi-api City in Rokan Hilir District, Riau Province, on ...

Material losses inflicted by Riau forest fires reach Rp20 trillion

Material losses inflicted by forest and plantation fires in Riau Province, Sumatra, during February-April 2014, ...

Minister: forest fire in Riau happens on massive scale

Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan reported that perpetrators had started forest and land fires in Riau provincial ...

Indonesian hotspots still need prompt response

Indonesian forest fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra, particularly in Riau Province, where fires have burnt 25 thousand ...

Bush fires feared to hit Sumatra

Bush fires are a growing threat in Sumatra with Terra and Aqua satellite detecting more hot spots mainly in the ...

Drought likely to trigger forest fires in Riau province

The Riau Province is currently experiencing a drought, which has the potential to trigger forest, peat land, and ...

16 hectares of forest area razed by fires in Riau

At least 16 hectares of forest area were razed by fires in Riau Province, in May 2014, according to data from the ...

Participatory approach needed to overcome haze

Indonesia needs to take a participatory approach where the central government, local administrations, non-governmental ...

Task force extinguish fire in Riau

The haze disaster mitigation task force has claimed that they have successfully extinguished 173 hot spots that burned ...

Riau forest fires claim three lives

The forest, plantation and peat-soil fires razing in Riau Province over the past two months, have claimed three ...