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7,745 suffer from acute respiratory tract infection in Pekanbaru

The Pekanbaru City Health Office reported that the number of people suffering from acute respiratory tract infection ...

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Forest fires drive Sumatran tiger from their habitats

Indonesia, home to the Sumatran tiger, joined celebrations on International Tiger Day, observed on July 25, to raise ...

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Relocating Indonesia's capital to Kalimantan, 'the world's lungs'

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on August 16, 2019, officially announced his plan to move Indonesia’s capital city ...

Sumatra Island ravaged by 584 hotspots representing forest fires

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) Station in Pekanbaru, Riau Province, confirmed the presence of 584 ...

Forest fire-induced haze lowers visibility in Pekanbaru to 1.5 km

Visibility in Riau's capital of Pekanbaru was curtailed to 1.5 kilometers (km) on Saturday at 8 a.m. local time ...

Four helicopters roped in to battle forest fires in Riau

The Riau forest fire task force has employed four helicopters to douse the conflagration spreading across the southern ...

LAPAN records 151 hotspots in West Kalimantan

The National Institute of Aeronautics and Space’s (LAPAN’s) past 24-hour observation revealed the presence ...

Governor gives ultimatum to errant plantation, timber estate companies

West Kalimantan Governor Sutarmidji has forewarned to seal plantation or timber estate companies found to have ...

Conflagration razes Mount Pogor forest area

The Mount Pogor forest area, spanning 1,500 meters in Malati Village, Naringgul Sub-district, Cianjur District, West ...

West Kalimantan Police handles 40 land and forest fire cases

The West Kalimantan police questioned intensely 40 found to be allegedly involved in 34 land and forest fire cases that ...

Hotspot detection across Sumatra Island reaches 260

A total of 260 hotspots were identified throughout Sumatra Island on Monday morning, suggestive of forest and peatland ...

Red and White hoisted at Kapuas River marking Independence Day

Several thousand residents of Pontianak, West Kalimantan, participated in a flag-raising ceremony to commemorate the ...

382 hotspots detected in West Kalimantan

The number of hotspots indicating forest fires in West Kalimantan Province jumped to 382 on Thursday morning from 148 ...

Land and forest fires have not affected tourism: minister

Fires that raged through the land and forest areas in several provinces in Indonesia over the past few months have not ...

Wildfires ravage 1,500 hectares of land in Bintan District: Authority

The Bintan Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) recorded that wildfires have ravaged some 1,500 hectares of land in the ...