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Efforts on to put out wildfires in West Aceh

Personnel from the West Aceh Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) and a joint team of firefighters were striving to ...

South Sumatra police join forest fire control efforts

South Sumatra police have dispatched 159 officers to support the preventive and mitigation efforts of the ...

Satellites identify 23 hotspots of forest fires in North Sumatra

The Terra and Aqua satellites as well as the NOAA20 satellites unearthed 23 medium-category hotspots in North Sumatra ...

Helicopters drop 4.6 million liters water in South Sumatra

Aerial firefighting helicopters dropped over 4.6 million liters of water to help douse forest and land fires at 51 ...

COVID-19 can infect anyone regardless of social status: minister

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Mahfud MD, has emphasized that the novel coronavirus ...

Jambi police arrest two arsonists for torching land for clearance

Police personnel in Tanjab Timur District, Jambi Province, apprehended two local residents for allegedly torching four ...

NLPSF researcher cautiously supports Indonesia's food-estate program

A senior researcher of the Palangka Raya University's Natural Laboratory of Peat Swamp Forest (NLPSF) suggested ...

Jokowi reminds aides of carbon emission reduction target in 2020

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has jogged his aides’ memory on Indonesia's target to lower greenhouse gas ...

Indonesia takes precautionary measures against forest fires forecast

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Mahfud MD highlighted the government’s ...

Global economy to fully recover in 2022: former Indonesian minister

The world's economic recovery from the twin crises, encumbering several nations worldwide owing to the ongoing ...

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COVID-19 adding to challenge posed by forest fires

With Indonesia still in the grip of the coronavirus, which is known to cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), ...

Govt prioritizes changing public mindset on reducing land degradation

The government has channeled its efforts to change the public outlook in preventing environmental degradation, ...

Government sees dramatic increase in forest fires in Aug-Sep

Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, said the Indonesian government is anticipating a potential ...

Exposure to forest, land fire smoke worsens COVID-19 risk: Monardo

COVID-19 Handling Acceleration Task Force Chief Doni Monardo cautioned that heavy smoke from forest and land fires, ...

Indonesia successful in minimizing forest fires, claims minister

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Mahfud MD, has claimed that Indonesia has successfully ...