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Golf course to be turned into city forest

Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnomo extended his support to the Environment Ministrys plan to turn a golf course ...

Greenpeace calls on banks to stop credit for coal mining

Greenpeace Indonesia asks all banks in Indonesia to comply with call by the Financial Service Authority (OJK) to stop ...

baduy tribe preserves conservation forest - (d)

Baduy tribe, which lives inland in Lebak regency, Banten province, has been consistently preserving the forest by ...

President requests adjustment in forest industry`s development strategy

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has requested the assessment and adjustment of the industrial forest development ...

Over 10,000 migrant children missing: Europol

Over 10,000 unaccompanied migrant children have disappeared in Europe, the EU police agency Europol said Sunday, ...

Nambo beach cleaned up to attract tourists

Nambo beach, a popular marine tourism object in Kendari district, Southeast Sulawesi, is being cleaned up to make it ...

Sago forest in Papua needs preservation

Sago forest in Papua needs to be preserved in a sustainable manner because it is a food reserve for the local ...

Establishment of Indonesia`s Peatland Restoration Agency lauded

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) installed Nazir Foead, former conservation director at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), ...

Suspected terrorist shot dead in Poso

Police were involved in a gunfight with suspected members of a terrorist group in Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Friday ...

Ebola epidemic ended in W. Africa but flare ups possible

The World Health Organisation on Thursday announced an end to the latest flare-up of the Ebola virus in Liberia, a ...

Peatland Restoration Agency established to prevent forest fires

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), under Presidential Regulation No. 1 of 2016, dated January 6, 2016, has established a ...

Stunning Raja Ampat to be proposed as touristic province

The stunning natural beauty of Raja Ampat isles located in the northwestern tip of the Indonesian province of West ...

President Jokowi visits Piaynemu Bay in Raja Ampat

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and First Lady Iriana visited Piaynemu Bay in Raja Ampat District, West Papua, on ...

President Jokowi optimistic of achieving target of 20 million tourist arrivals

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is optimistic that Indonesia would be able to achieve the target of 20 million tourist ...

Police arrest seven suspected terrorists in Malino

The police have arrested seven suspected terrorists in the past few days from their hideout in the village of Tayawa ...