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Riau calls for private companies to help fight wildfires

It certainly is no easy task to break the vicious cycle of annual forest, peat land and plantation fires, which have ...

Russia-made helicopter deployed to extinguish Riau wildfires

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has rented a Russian-made Sikorsky helicopter to strengthen its efforts ...

Riau firefighters extinguish 60 wildfires during January-July period

During the January-July 2015 period, Riaus firefighters have put out 60 fires that have razed forest, peatland, and ...

S. Kalimantan on highest alert for wildfires

Authorities of South Kalimantan have declared the highest alert status for wildfires that have been proliferating due ...

Regional leaders` forum can resolve Tolikara incident: Indonesia minister

The Regional Leaders Communications Forum (Forkompimda) of Papua province will be able to resolve the Tolikara ...

Tolikara situation calm: Indonesia minister

Chief security minister Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno said here Saturday that the situation in Tolikara, Papua, has been calm ...

Situation in Tolikara more conducive now: minister

The situation in Karubaga in Tolikara, Papua province, is more stable now, after the riot that took place in the ...

Indonesian minister will guarantee needs of evacuees from Tolikara

Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa plans to visit Tolikara to ensure that the needs of evacuees in the ...

21 hotspots detected in W. Kalimantan

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has detected some 21 hotspots in West Kalimantan Province ...

Riau authorities extinguish 10 bushfires

The fire brigade and disaster mitigation office of Pekanbaru, Riau Province, has extinguished bushfires in at least 10 ...

No need to import food to face El Nino: Kalla

The government does not need to import food commodities to face the impacts of El Nino on Indonesia, Vice President M. ...

Indonesian minister wants alertness in disaster-prone areas to be increased

As a precaution to face various natural disasters that may occur without warning, Social Affairs Minister Khofifah ...

BMKG reveals 28 hotspots across Sumatra Island

The Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) announced that 28 hotspots have been detected across ...

Six hotspots detected on Sumatra Island

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

Tanzania loses 80% of forest in Eastern Arc Mountains: WWF

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the worlds leading conservation organization, said on Sunday that Tanzania has lost ...