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Conserving North Maluku's maritime treasures

Indonesia is the largest archipelagic country in the world, with its 17,508 islands spread over an area of nearly two ...

150,000 plants to be planted along roadsides, graveyard in C Jakarta

The Central Jakarta Municipality administration will conduct the planting of some 150 thousand plants along main ...

Central Jakarta parks reopened with micro-scale activity restriction

The Jakarta authorities reopened four parks in Central Jakarta to the public, albeit enforcing Micro-Scale Activity ...

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Gane Dalam's merit for Indonesia

Most Indonesians may not be familiar with Gane Dalam, but who would have thought that this village at Halmahera ...

Govt allocating up to Rp5 trillion annually for disaster mitigation

The Indonesian government has been earmarking Rp4 trillion-Rp5 trillion every year for disaster mitigation efforts in ...

Environmental NGO JPIK cautions Indonesia of ongoing deforestation

Independent Forestry Monitoring Network (JPIK) cautioned the government and relevant parties of ongoing deforestation ...

Preserving forests to sustain food independence in N Maluku

Renowned biologist Alfred Russel Wallace has famously written about his delight at discovering an Ornithoptera ...

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Stringent law enforcement crucial to keep forest fire cases down

Indonesia, home to the world's third-largest tropical rainforests, has been successful in significantly reducing ...

Pandjaitan launches program to revive mangroves

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, launched a national mangrove ...

Nine disasters reported per day in past year: BNPB

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has recorded a total of 3,253 natural disasters in the one year since ...

Forest restoration following Mount Merapi eruption to take few years

The Mount Merapi National Park Center (BTNGM) pegged that the process of restoring the forest destroyed by the eruption ...

Riau's BPBD stations 6,000 personnel to prevent, handle forest fires

The Regional Disaster Mitigation Office (BPBD) of Riau Province, in collaboration with other related offices, stationed ...

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Conservation efforts put Curiak Island on the map --- literally

Caption: A group of tourists at Curiak Island, which is home to proboscis monkeys (nasalis larvatus), known locally as ...

Six regions in Riau on alert for land, forest fires

An emergency standby status for land and forest fires has been declared in five districts and one municipality in Riau ...

Fires scorch 248 ha of land, forests in Riau

Fires have laid to waste 248.95 hectares of land and forests in Riau province since early this year, chief of the Riau ...