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Government approves Rp16.5-trillion loan for Jakarta, W Java

The government has sanctioned Rp16.5 trillion in loans for Jakarta and West Java provinces to fund infrastructure ...

Mary Kay Inc. expands partnership with The Nature Conservancy to protect waterways across the globe

Last year, Mary Kay Inc., an international leader in corporate and social responsibility, announced the company had ...

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Government links food security to national defense

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has cautioned that the COVID-19 pandemic is posing a serious threat to food ...

Farmers' incomes to receive boost from food-estate program: official

Farmers from Pulang Pisau District in Central Kalimantan Province would be able to capitalize on the Indonesian ...

Jokowi visits Kapuas to observe site of food estate program

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) arrived at the Tjilik Riwut Airport in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, and later ...

NLPSF researcher cautiously supports Indonesia's food-estate program

A senior researcher of the Palangka Raya University's Natural Laboratory of Peat Swamp Forest (NLPSF) suggested ...

Villages can aid food self-sufficiency amid pandemic: minister

Indonesian villages have continued to produce food amid the COVID-19 pandemic and are therefore expected to serve as ...

PUPR Ministry to remodel irrigation system in planned food estate

The Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) Ministry has decided to redesign the irrigation system in the planned Food ...

PUPR Ministry to build 1.5 million self-support houses in 2020-2024

long toll roads, three thousand-km-long new roads, and 60-km-long bridges to boost the nation's ...

Ministry to commence food estate development project in 2020-2022

The Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) Ministry has set a target to revive 165 thousand hectares of land as a food ...

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Indonesia braces for extreme dry season amid COVID-19

As it battles the coronavirus pandemic, Indonesia, which is currently entering the dry season, is bracing for a ...

Rice plantation sooner as precaution against food crisis amid pandemic

The Agriculture Ministry is implementing a program called the Paddy Planting Acceleration Movement in several regions ...

Ensuring water availability important for realizing food resilience

Yanto Ph.D, a hydrological and water resources expert at the Jenderal Soedirman University, highlighted the criticality ...

Govt to raise water storage infrastructure capacity against drought

The Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) will optimize the capacity of water storage infrastructure ...

Indonesian government to purchase 10,000 tons of rubber from farmers

Indonesia's Public Works and Public Housing Ministry plans to purchase 10,000 tons of rubber from farmers for use ...