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Year-ender: Government's disaster management efforts in 2022

Nearly all countries in the world have, at some point, experienced a natural disaster, such as an earthquake, flood, or ...

Ministry strengthens police forest capacity to handle forestry cases

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry is committed to boosting the capacity of the forest police to handle ...

BRIN manages satellite image data for disaster mitigation

The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) managed image data obtained from remote sensing satellite for ...

New division moratorium rescinded only for Papua region: VP Amin

The government's moratorium on the establishment of new administrative divisions remains in place except for the ...

Indonesia, Turkey bolster cooperation in environment, forestry

Indonesia and Turkey strengthened their bilateral cooperation by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on ...

Indonesia seeks greater cooperation with EU for handling global crises

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has asked the European Union (EU) to increase cooperation with Indonesia and ASEAN for ...

Indonesia successfully curbed land, forest fires during 2020-2022

Indonesia succeeded in reducing land and forest fires as well as tackling cross-border haze in the past three years, ...

Minister attributes forest, land fires chiefly to human activities

Forest and land fires in Indonesia were mainly caused by human activities, according to Director of Forest and Land ...

Ministry, university discuss FoLU Net Sink 2030 policy

The Environment and Forestry Ministry and the Faculty of Forestry at Hasanuddin University, Makassar, discussed ...

Environment ministry invites Belitung residents to conserve mangroves

The Environment and Forestry Ministry has invited residents of Belitung District, Bangka Belitung Islands Province, to ...

BMKG detects 21 hotspots in East Kalimantan

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) detected 21 hotspots spread across East Kalimantan Province, ...

South Sumatra must strive to cut greenhouse emissions: ministry

The Environment and Forestry Ministry has urged South Sumatra province to actively contribute to efforts to reduce ...

Police chief asks ranks to commit to supporting govt policies

Chief of the National Police (Polri), General Listyo Sigit Prabowo, has instructed his rank and file to commit to ...

Central Kalimantan takes anticipatory measures against wildfires

Central Kalimantan is taking anticipatory measures to prevent forest and land fires ahead of the peak of the dry ...

BMKG detects 14 hotspots in East Kalimantan

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Station of Balikpapan City detected 14 hotspots of medium ...