#kalimantan island

Collection of kalimantan island news, found 158 news.

Kalimantan`s wealth may not be taken to other regions: Kalla

Vice-presidential candidate M. Jusuf Kalla (JK) said that the Kalimantan island has extraordinary wealth, which may ...

Annual floods hit parts of Indonesia

Typically, January and February are the peak months of the rainy season in Indonesia, which mostly results in flooding ...

Hundreds of houses inundated in Manado

Hundreds of houses have been submerged in flood water reaching a height of 2.5 meters, following 11 hours of incessant ...

Jakarta flood problem cannot be resolved overnight

The floods, which repeatedly strike Jakarta and its neighboring areas with sickening regularity almost every year, is ...

Typhoon Haiyan causes high waves, rainfall in northern Indonesia

Northern Indonesia will experience high waves and significant rainfall in the next few days, though it will be minor ...

Indonesian forestry ministry sets hotspot reduction target

The Indonesian forestry ministry has set a target for reducing hotspots of forest and plantation fires in Kalimantan, ...

E. Kalimantan expected to become strategic economic growth center

East Kalimantan is known as a resource-rich province and is one of the best-established mining areas in Indonesia ...

Artificial rains being considered to put out forest fires

Forest fires have hit several provinces in Indonesia over the past few months and produced haze that has had an effect ...

Activists blockade Mahakam river

Dozens of activists from local NGOs blockaded the Mahakam river with small boats here on Wednesday. The activists ...

Predicted dry season begins in May

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysic Agency (BMKG) has predicted that the dry season in Indonesia will begin in ...

news focus: heart of Borneo designated as "world`s lungs"

Kalimantan Island or also known as Borneo is host to a vast area of the country`s remaining tropical rainforests ...

UGM, Namibia University increase cooperation

Gajah Mada University (UGM) of Yogyakarta has established a cooperation with Namibia University (Unam) by sending Dr ...

Minister stresses need to develop nuclear energy

Research and Technology Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta said it was now the time for Indonesia to begin developing ...

President: 45% of Kalimantan island for biodiversity conservation

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed a regulation that 45 percent of Kalimantan island must be used for ...

Govt to develop 12 border islets in 2012

The government has set itself the target of developing 12 inhabited islets bordering other countries this year, a ...