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Fires detected again in lands owned by companies given SP3

Environmentalist organizations said fires have been detected again in lands owned by eight companies given SP3 (order ...

Mentawai to have airport to accommodate wide bodied aircraft

Expansion of the Rokot airport on the island of Mentawai off West Sumatra is to be completed in 2019 to accommodate ...

Government focused on Raja Ampat development: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo said tourism development in Papua Barat is focused on development of Raja Ampat in the Raja ...

People to compete for food and energy: President

People around the world will later compete for two basic needs which are energy and food as the global population ...

Sumatra warned over emergence of forest and land fires

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency-Pekanbaru Station detected 42 hotspots in five provinces of ...

Slash-and-burn method contributes to hotspots in Riau: Official

Several hotspots in Bengkalis District, Riau, are caused by the extreme weather during the dry season and the acts of ...

Government agencies spend 91 percent of budget fund

Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said spending by government agencies reached Rp724.7 trillion or 91.1 percent of ...

Kertajati airport project to cost Rp3.7 trillion

The Kertajati airport project in West Java will cost around Rp3.7 trillion, to be paid by the central governmernt West ...

Toll road construction to start in Makassar in 2017

The city administration of Makassar will start building a 70-kilometer toll road in the South Sulawesi capital in ...

Land clearing drag on airport expansion in East Nusa Tenggara

Land clearing has been the main drag on projects to expand a number of airports in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), a ...

Govt should identify main culprits of land fires and haze

The government needs to identify the main culprits behind the land fires and haze that have caused health problems and ...

Indonesian forest fires cause regional concern

Millions of people in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore have been affected by the haze mainly arising from forest, ...

Indonesia needs no help from Singapore yet

Indonesia will not need help as of now from Singapore to overcome forest and land fires currently raging in the ...

Indonesia working hard to extinguish forest fires: President

Indonesia has been working hard to extinguish the forest and land fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan Islands by ...

NGO to provide legal counsel to victims of forest fires

The prolonged drought induced by the El Nino phenomenon, has resulted in a water crisis and harvest failure in some ...