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Trade Ministry lowers Nov reference price for cocoa beans 

The Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) has set the reference price (HR) for cocoa beans at 3,524.56 US dollars per metric ton ...

Some 26 hotspots detected in several districts of Bengkulu: BMKG

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has warned Bengkulu residents in several districts to stay ...

Indonesian govt issues 96 warning letters on forest, land fires

Indonesia's Environment and Forestry Ministry on Monday informed that it has sent 96 warning letters on hotspot ...

Commission pushes women's involvement in forest conversion plans

The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) has called for active women's involvement in ...

South Kalimantan piloted watershed rehabilitation

South Kalimantan could be an example of the implementation of a national watershed rehabilitation program, the Ministry ...

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Protecting Orangutans in natural habitat deemed crucial

- as well as three females -- Borneos mother Buntok (12), Paijah (15), and Danida (13). All six of the orangutan ...

YOSL-OIC seizes and rescues 10 orangutans during January-March period

The Lestari Sumatran Orangutan Foundation-Orangutan Information Center (YOSL-OIC) has seized and rescued at least 10 ...

West Java committed to preserving Cibodas biosphere

West Java Provincial Administration Secretary Iwa Karniwa voiced the provincial administration`s commitment to ...

South Kalimantan hopes for more rain to cope with forest fires

The people of South Kalimantan hope that rain would fall again to send away haze of smokes that begin to blanket some ...

Indonesia, FAO renew cooperation in timber trade

Indonesia and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations renewed cooperation in support of ...

Yogyakarta prepares special service for travelers

The government of the special autonomous province of Yogyakarta has set up a Tourist Information Center to offer ...

Bantul continues to develop tourist villages

Bantul district in Yogyakarta is endowed with beautiful natural scenery and wide range of interesting tourist villages ...

President calls for optimizing land exploitation

President Joko Widodo has called for the application of poly-culture to optimize the use of land, including that ...

Indonesian haze begins escalating to neighboring countries

At least eight provinces in Indonesia currently have an increasing number of hotspots producing smoke from forest and ...

Four factors destroy forests: Activist

The non-governmental environmental organization Wahana Lingkungan Hidup (WALHI) stated that four factors cause ...