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West Kalimantan's police seal off operations of palm oil plantation

The West Kalimantan police sealed off the operations of palm oil company PT Dinamika Multi Perkasa in Kenepai Village, ...

Indonesian govt outlines three scenarios of economic growth projection

The Indonesian government has readied three scenarios of national economic growth projection for the subsequent ...

Palangka Raya government to fund wildfire emergency budget

The  Palangka Raya city government in Central Kalimantan Province will provide Rp1.7 billion towards an ...

Fun bike signalizes start of Tour de Siak in Riau

A fun bike event, covering Siak City in Riau Province, was organized here on Wednesday to mark the start of an ...

Minister Moeloek instructs to deploy ambulances in smog-stricken areas

Indonesian Health Minister Nila Moeloek instructed Riau's health authority to dispatch Public Safety Center (PSC) ...

Police chief leads Indonesian delegation to 39th ASEANAPOL conference

Chief of the Indonesian Police (Polri) General Tito Karnavian led the Indonesian delegation to the 39th ASEANAPOL ...

Director named suspect in S Sumatra forest fire

The South Sumatra provincial police has named PT Bumi Hijau Lestari operations director Alvaro Khadaff as a suspect in ...

Kalimantan wildfires force orangutans to trespass on residential areas

Some orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) fled their habitat and trespassed on residential areas in East Kotawaringin District, ...

Satellites detect 1,313 hotspots in Sumatra on Wednesday

The Pekanbaru meteorology station cited the presence of 1,313 hotspots indicative of forest fires throughout Sumatra ...

S Sumatra Governor assures students on demands

South Sumatra Governor Herman Deru has said he is ready to resign if he fails to meet the demand of students related to ...

Education ministry to provide haze-free classroom in Kalimantan

Ministry of Education will provide classrooms that are free from haze caused by land and forest fires in affected areas ...

Walhi presses for stringent measures against firms behind forest fires

The Indonesian Forum for Environment (Walhi) of the West Kalimantan chapter urged the government to adopt strict ...

Government makes maximal efforts to fight land, forest fires: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) echoed the government’s full-blown efforts to fight land and forest fires in the ...

West Kalimantan Police currently processing 66 cases of forest fires

West Kalimantan Provincial Police Chief Inspector General Didi Haryono confirmed that the police were presently working ...

Presidential plane lands smoothly at haze-shrouded Riau airport

The presidential aircraft carrying President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) landed smoothly at Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport in ...