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Integrate water management to prevent flooding: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has issued directives to local governments and related ministries to conduct ...

Forest fires in 2019 exacerbated orangutan-human conflicts

The number of orangutan-human conflicts tended to increase since the forest fires razing Kalimantan’s forests ...

Pangkalbalam Port notifies ship crews of crocodile attacks

Pangkalbalam Port, Pangkalpinang, Bangka Belitung, cautioned ship crew members to stay vigilant of crocodile attacks, ...

Airport, police search for Nat Geo photographer's missing hard drives

I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport management and Bali Police search for a missing rolling bag containing laptop, ...

Indonesia's carbon credit potential may raise bargaining power

Indonesia's large carbon credit potentials because of its abundant natural resources including forests and ...

$5.2 billion losses from forest, land fires: WB

Land and forest fires that affected several parts of Indonesia from June to October 2019 inflicted losses of US$5.2 ...

Indonesian mangrove cover increased to 3.56 million hectares in 2019

Indonesia’s mangrove forest cover grew to 3.56 million hectares in 2019, Director of Environment and Disaster ...

Indonesia begins to tap carbon trading potential

Indonesia has begun exploring the potential of carbon trading since some 75-80 percent of the global carbon credit is ...

Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in East Aceh to protect endangered species

The Aceh provincial administration intends to build a Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary (SRS) in East Aceh District in a bid to ...

Misool's Kajang boat race expected to draw more foreign tourists

The Kajang boat race at this year's Wonderful Misool Festival is expected to attract more foreign tourists to ...

Weekend Stories

Decades of fight to realize a "Drug-Free" ASEAN

Drug abuse has snatched sons from their mothers, split families, caused student dropouts after imprisonment for being ...

News Feature

Saving Julia and Cykita

Three years ago, Julia had just given birth to her baby Cykita, when a team of conservationists in South Kalimantan ...

Hundreds of homes flooded in West Aceh

Hundreds of home in five villages in West Aceh District, Aceh Province, have been submerged by flood waters reaching a ...

News Focus

Greenpeace campaigns on clean energy, alerts Jokowi's cabinet

At least a dozen environmental activists climbed atop the two main monuments in Jakarta on Wednesday, to unfurl a ...

Flooding swamps some 500 homes in Mandailing Natal, North Sumatra

Eight villages in Siabu Sub-district, Mandailing Natal District, North Sumatra Province, are under deluge, with at ...