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Haze forces cancellation of 33 flights at Pekanbaru

As many as 33 flights to and from Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport in the Riau provincial capital of Pekanbaru were ...

ISPA cases in Riau increasing due to smog

The smog from the forest and land fires in Riau Province has increased the number of patients suffering from acute ...

Land clearance for plantations causal to Indonesia's forest fires

Rasio Ridho Sani, director general of law enforcement of the Environmental Affairs and Forestry Ministry, pointed to ...

Terra, Aqua satellites identify 1,182 forest fire hotspots in Sumatra

The Terra and Aqua satellites tracked 1,182 hotspots suggestive of forest fires throughout Sumatra Island on ...

Satellites detect 1,211 fire hotspots throughout Sumatra

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) had identified 1,211 hotspots representing forest fires all ...

Six hotspots observed in North Penajam Paser, East Kalimantan

No less than six hotspots, suggestive of forest fires, were found in North Penajam Paser District, East Kalimantan, the ...

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Relocating Indonesia's capital to Kalimantan, 'the world's lungs'

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on August 16, 2019, officially announced his plan to move Indonesia’s capital city ...

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All-out efforts to extinguish wildfires on Sumatra, Kalimantan Islands

Indonesian Defense Forces Commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto, National Police Chief General Tito ...

Pontianak residents exposed to thick smoke from wildfire

Several residents of Pontianak, the capital city of West Kalimantan Province, are left with no choice but to inhale the ...

Haze in West Kalimantan elicits complaints from businesspersons

Smog arising from forest fires in West Kalimantan has threatened business activities and prospects in the province, ...

Gunung Kidul mulls plan to build historical monument

The Gunung Kidul district government in Yogyakarta Special Province is mulling a plan to build a historical monument to ...

Study needed to unearth reasons behind N Konawe's flooding

Police Chief General Tito Karnavian reiterated the significance of conducting a study to unearth the reason behind the ...

High-speed railway construction to reach 59 percent before 2019-end

State Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarno is eyeing to complete 59 percent of the construction of the Jakarta-Bandung ...

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Prioritizing preventive measures against forest fires

The Indonesian authorities have claimed that te number of forest fires had reduced some 85 percent over the past ...

Land fires trigger haze in several areas in North Kalimantan

Forest and land fires continue to haunt North Kalimantan, as they have occurred daily in the province over the last ...