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Police grill eight people over land fire in West Aceh

Police have interrogated eight people in connection with land fires in West Aceh District in recent weeks. "We ...

Jokowi instructs to immediately extinguish forest fires

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has given orders to immediately put out the forest fires currently raging in several ...

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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 ...

Haze enveloping Pekanbaru compels students to wear face masks

Students and teachers in Pekanbaru, Riau Province, were left with no choice but to wear face masks as haze, arising ...

Five provinces declare emergency status for land and forest fires

The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture announced that five provinces in the country have declared ...

Some 5,929 deployed personnel douse forest fires in five provinces

Some 5,929 personnel, comprising military, police, and civilian officers, were deployed to extinguish forest fires in ...

Smog lowers visibility in Pekanbaru

Haze from forest and land fires blanketing Pekanbaru City, Riau Province, since Tuesday morning, has reduced ...

53 hotspots detected in Riau Province

The Terra and Aqua satellites have detected 53 hotspots indicating forest fires in Riau Province Saturday afternoon, a ...

Land fires in East Kotawaringin partially intentional: district head

District Head of East Kotawaringin, Central Kalimantan, Supian Hadi affirmed that land fires that had arisen in his ...

Mighty Earth Complaint to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) for dissociation of Korindo dismissed by FSC

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Mighty Earth, a US NGO, filed a complaint to FSC that the Korindo Group should be dissociated from ...

Ministry handles forest fires with a hotspot approach

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry was working on a system to prevent forest and land fires with a hotspot ...

Huge fire ravages forest area of Kota Batu's Mt Panderman

A huge wildfire ravaged forest area on the slope of Mount Panderman in Kota Batu, East Java, on Sunday evening but the ...

Fire razes hectares of peatland on Pekanbaru's outskirts

Fire has razed 15 hectares of peatland on the outskirts of the Riau provincial capital of Pekanbaru since Friday (July ...

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Indonesia pays serious attention to forest fires handling

Indonesia is bracing for devastating and more frequent forest fires, following the recurrence of bush and forest ...

Central Kalimantan needs helitanker to support aerial firefighting

The Kotawaringin Timur Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) needs a helitanker to back its efforts to extinguish wildfires ...