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Indonesian Scout to send humanitarian mission to Rakhine, Myanmar

The Indonesian Scout Movement (Pramuka) will send a humanitarian mission to Rakhine State, Myanmar, to distribute meat ...

BNPB predicts forest fires to increase

Indonesias National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) predicted that forest and land fires would continue to increase ...

Better efforts needed for disaster preparedness and mitigation

Natural disasters that have hit Indonesia up to June 2017 include floods (37.4 percent), whirlwinds (29.2 percent), ...

73 hotspots detected across Sumatra Island

The meteorological, climatology and geophysics agency (BMKG) has detected 73 hotspots in 10 provinces across Sumatra ...

Bogor Agricultural Institute establishes forest fire data center

Bogor Institute of Agricultural (IPB) has established the Regional Fire Management Resource Center in the South East ...

28 hotspots detected on Sumatra Island

The Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has detected 28 hotspots, indicating forest and ...

Helicopter drops 40 tons of water to extinguish Riau fires

Riau Provinces forest and land fire task force has deployed an MI-8 helicopter to drop 40 tons of water to extinguish ...

Forestry Ministry hopes no forest fire this year

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) said it hopes that this year there would be no forest fire in ...

University of Indonesia successfully creates research innovations on disaster mitigation

The University of Indonesias (UI) teaching staff and students have successfully developed and created several ...

Natural disasters inflict Rp30 trillion loss per year in Indonesia

Indonesia suffers an average of Rp30 trillion in economic losses per year due to natural disasters, Head of the ...

Government asked to consider European Parliament palm oil resolution

A number of non governmental organizations (NGOs) asked the government to use the resolution of the European ...

Singapore lauds Indonesia`s efforts in handling forest fires

Countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are contributing to achieving a smoke-free zone by ...

EARTH WIRE -- Indonesia strongly rejects European Parliament`s allegations

Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya said Indonesia rejects European Parliaments allegations against ...

EARTH WIRE -- Two additional helicopters needed to anticipate Riau`s forest fires: Nurendi

Two additional helicopters are needed in Riau Province, Sumatra Island, to anticipate the annual land and forest ...

BOS Foundation saves orangutan from extinction

The Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation is keen to release as many Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) as ...