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Hundreds protest in Ghana over abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram

Hundreds of women here Sunday staged a peaceful protest against the kidnapping of the over 200 students from a ...

16 hectares of forest area razed by fires in Riau

At least 16 hectares of forest area were razed by fires in Riau Province, in May 2014, according to data from the ...

Indonesia, EU enter new era of closer relations

After a long process, the European Union (EU) and Indonesian Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) finally came ...

Participatory approach needed to overcome haze

Indonesia needs to take a participatory approach where the central government, local administrations, non-governmental ...

Communal conflicts not affecting plantation development in Papua

Conflicts between two tribal groups in the district of Mimika, Papua, did not hamper development of oil palm ...

Indonesia Myanmar discuss production forest development

Indonesian Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan met with his counterpart from Myanmar U Win Tun here on Monday to discuss ...

Kalla allocates one helicopter for Riau

Chairman of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) M. Jusuf Kalla had allocated one helicopter to the PMI branch in Riau ...

Indonesian minister denies having received red report card

Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan denied that his ministry had got a red report card from the Presidential Working Unit ...

Riau forest fires cause losses amounting to over Rp20 trillion

Forest and land fires occurring in the Riau Province between February and April 2014 caused economic losses worth more ...

44 hotspots detected in Sumatra

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 18 operated in Singapore detected on Saturday 44 ...

BOS releases 12 orangutans to natural habitat

The Borneo Orangutan Foundation (BOS) has released 12 orangutans from its rehabilitation center in Nyaru Menteng to ...

Satellite detects 44 hotspots in Sumatra

The Terra and Aqua Satellites have detected 40 hotspots located in Sumatra Island, which were mostly found in Riau ...

Forest conversion to mining decreases anoa population

The conversion of forest areas has threatened the population of anoa (Bubalus depressicornis) and other endangered ...

Indonesia to increase economic partnership with Denmark

Indonesia`s Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa said the government would boost economic ...

Location problem hampers Papua shooting investigation

Chief of Papua Provincial Police Insp. Gen. Tito Karnavian said the location problem in regard with the recent ...