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Bolster public awareness of natural disaster potentials: BNPB Head

National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) Head Lt Gen. Doni Monardo highlighted the importance of boosting public ...

Several provinces to enter dry season in April, BMKG forecasts

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has forecast that this year's dry season will start in ...

Fires ravage 60 hectares land in Bintan in one week

Fires have laid to waste around 60 hectares of peatland and bushland in Bintan district, Riau Islands province in the ...

Environmental NGO JPIK cautions Indonesia of ongoing deforestation

Independent Forestry Monitoring Network (JPIK) cautioned the government and relevant parties of ongoing deforestation ...

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Daily disasters bring mitigation, prevention to fore

The Indonesian people need to find a way to live with natural disasters considering the nation’s geographic ...

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Stringent law enforcement crucial to keep forest fire cases down

Indonesia, home to the world's third-largest tropical rainforests, has been successful in significantly reducing ...

Forest, land fires down by 82% in 2020: Mahfud MD

  The incidence of forest and land fires declined by around 82 percent in the past year, based on data ...

Indonesia eyes narrowing down disaster-triggered GDP contraction

Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan highlighted the government's target to ...

Pandemic an opportunity to strengthen disaster resilience: Widodo

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has said that the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has offered an opportunity to ...

West Kalimantan police name eight suspects in forest, land fires

The West Kalimantan Provincial Police have named eight suspects in seven cases of forest and land fires in the province ...

Riau's BPBD stations 6,000 personnel to prevent, handle forest fires

The Regional Disaster Mitigation Office (BPBD) of Riau Province, in collaboration with other related offices, stationed ...

BMKG identifies 325 hotspots in West Kalimantan

A total of 325 hotspots indicating land and forest fires were found in West Kalimantan Province as of Friday, according ...

Six regions in Riau on alert for land, forest fires

An emergency standby status for land and forest fires has been declared in five districts and one municipality in Riau ...

Fires scorch 248 ha of land, forests in Riau

Fires have laid to waste 248.95 hectares of land and forests in Riau province since early this year, chief of the Riau ...

BMKG detects 38 hotspots in North Sumatra

Thirty-eight hotspots of forest and land fires have been detected in several parts of North Sumatra Province by Sensor ...