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Yearender - Indonesia successfully fights forest fires in 2016

Many inhabitants of Riau Province have a fleeting sense of relief since, for the first time in the past 18 years, they ...

EARTH WIRE -- Team of 13 lawyers to help Walhi in SP3 pretrial

Environmentalists of the Indonesian Environmental Forum (Walhi), said they have a team of 13 lawyers to help them in ...

140 hotspots detected in West Kalimantan

A total of 140 hotspots indicating forest, peatland and plantation fires, were detected in West Kalimantan Province, ...

Satellites detect 37 hotspots across Sumatra Island

The Terra and Aqua satellites of NASA detected 37 hotspots in five provinces across Sumatra Island on Sunday. The ...

Indonesian minister advises maintaining vigil in wake of forest fires

Indonesia has continued to remain vigilant against forest fires, although the number of hotspots across the nation has ...

29 hotspots detected across Sumatra island

As many as 29 hotspots were detected across Sumatra Island in the morning of Wednesday. "Three hotspots were ...

Police chief orders arrest of forest fire perpetrators

National Police chief General Tito Karnavian has ordered the arrest of the perpetrators of forest and land fires. ...

Legal enforcement stepped up to combat forest fires

Riaus inhabitants have long yearned to lead a haze-free existence as they have reeled under the impacts of smoke ...

All-out fight against forest fires in Sumatra, Kalimantan

The Indonesian authorities had a fleeting sense of relief that there had been no haze from forest fires until early ...

Haze begins to cause problem in visibility in Riau: BMKG

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said haze of black smokes from forest and bush fires began ...

Plantation companies warned not use fire for land clearing

The South Sumatra provincial administration threatens to revoke the license of plantation companies if found using ...

Some 300 families in Riau flee homes due to wildfire

Some 300 families from three sub-districts in Riau province began fleeing their homes on Saturday (August 27) due to ...

Indonesia declares forest fire emergency

Indonesias Minister of Forestry and Environment Siti Nurbaya has said the country has been placed under emergency with ...

Police detains 85 forest fire suspects in Riau

Police Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) has detained 85 forest fire individual suspects in Riau this year. ...

Fires detected again in lands owned by companies given SP3

Environmentalist organizations said fires have been detected again in lands owned by eight companies given SP3 (order ...