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100 soldiers flown to Riau to help fight land, forest fires

A company of 100 soldiers from the Army`s Strategic Reserve Command (Kostrad) arrived in Riau province on Sunday to ...

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Presidential debate lacked environmental focus By Fardah

The second round of presidential election debate, held on Feb 17, 2019, was considered more interesting, but ...

Presidential Debate

Prabowo vows to take stern measures against environmental polluters

Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto would take stern measures against companies that caused environmental damage, ...

UN Environment ready to help finance International Tropical Peatland Center in Bogor

The UN Environment is ready to finance the International Tropical Peatland Center (ITPC) set up in the West Java city ...

Norway offers assistance for landscape program of South Sumatra

Norway is one of the donor countries to have offered help for implementing the Sembilang Dangku landscape program in ...

Indonesia to share best practices at climate change conference

Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya has stated that Indonesia would share the best practices in ...

Wood survives in times of economic turmoil: Environment Minister

Environment and Forestry Affairs Minister (LHK) Siti Nurbaya Bakar said wood still survives in times of economic ...

Forestry businesses optimistic of increase in investment

The Indonesian Forest Entrepreneurs Association (APHI) is optimistic that investment in the forestry sector will ...

BMKG monitoring four hot spots in Aceh

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) is monitoring four hot spots detected by sensors using ...

Disaster handling to be continued with search for victims: BNPB

Earthquake and tsunami handling efforts in Central Sulawesi will continue to prioritize evacuation, rescue, and search ...

Agency makes preparations for transition from dry to rainy season

Head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Willem Rampangilei claimed his agency had taken precautionary ...

Ministry detects over three thousand hotspots across country

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) had until early this month detected over three thousand hotspots ...

South Sumatra intensifies weather modification technology

The Government of South Sumatra Province is currently intensifying Weather Modification Technology (WMT) by sprinkling ...

news focus - Prolonged drought triggers forest fires in Kalimantan and Java

The Indonesian government has been working all out to prevent forest fires over the last couple of years and been ...

News feature - Asian Games success supported by natural brightness By Otniel Tamindael

The success of the 2018 Asian Games, recently concluded with fond memories in Jakarta and Palembang, was also ...