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Airways delay flights to Pekanbaru to minimize losses

The authorities at Syarif Kasim II International Airport, Pekanbaru, Riau Province, stated that several airways have ...

North Sumatera hase delays 28 flights

A total of 28 flights at Kualanamu Airport, North Sumatra, were delayed on Sunday due to thick smock covering the ...

Haze affects health of 28,000 residents in Riau

More than 28,000 people are suffering from various smoke-related diseases, due to forest and land fires occurring over ...

Fires scorch 6,000 hectares of land, forests in Riau

Six thousand hectares of land and forests were destroyed by fire in Riau province, according to a disaster mitigation ...

Strict law enforcement ordered against forest fire perpetrators

As haze shrouded Sumatras cities over the past two months, President Yudhoyono has ordered strict law enforcement to ...

Around 99 percent of Sumatran fires deliberately set

Chief of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Syamsur Maarif stated that around 99 percent of forest and ...

Haze from Riau will not disperse to Singapore and Malaysia

The haze from the Riau Province in Sumatra will not disperse to Singapore and Malaysia, although a total of 1,234 ...

Riau bush fire`s hot spot multiplied 150 times

Bush fire hot spots in Riau have multiplied 150 times, from 64 on Sunday (Feb. 23) to 1,234 on Monday, across eight ...

Visibility only 50 meters in Riau due to haze

The worsening forest fires in some areas of Riau Province has reduced the visibility to about only 50 meters, an ...

10 people named as suspects in Riau`s forested land fires

The Environment Ministry has named 10 people charged with setting fire to forested land in Riau Province last year. ...

US offers training for forest rangers in Indonesia

The United States plans to offer training for forest rangers in Indonesia to enable them to tackle incidents such as ...

Four districts declare emergency status due to haze

Four districts in the Riau Province have declared a state of emergency due to the haze arising from forest, plantation ...

Satellite detects 81 hotspots in Riau

The Terra and Aqua satellite detected 81 hotspots of forest, plantation and peat land fires in Riau Province on Monday ...

528 hotspots of forest fires detected in Sumatra

The Terra and Aqua satellite detected a total of 528 hotspots of forest, plantation, and peatland fires across Sumatra ...

Law enforcement strengthened to tackle Sumatran forest fires

Hotspots in forests, plantations and peatland fires, which came early on Sumatra and Kalimantan islands this year, ...