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Participatory approach needed to overcome haze

Indonesia needs to take a participatory approach where the central government, local administrations, non-governmental ...

Riau police names 65 suspects on deliberate land fire case

The Riau police has named 65 suspects on deliberate land fire case that has caused severe air pollution there since ...

Police hunting down four suspects in Riau`s land fires

Police are hunting down four people suspected of setting fire to forested land in Riau province. "The four ...

Riau bush fire`s hot spot multiplied 150 times

Bush fire hot spots in Riau have multiplied 150 times, from 64 on Sunday (Feb. 23) to 1,234 on Monday, across eight ...

10 people named as suspects in Riau`s forested land fires

The Environment Ministry has named 10 people charged with setting fire to forested land in Riau Province last year. ...

Dumai`s air quality on Wednesday morning hazardous to health

The Pollutant Standard Index (PSI) over Dumai city, Riau province, reached 410, on Wednesday at around 8 a.m. local ...

Malaysia not to assist Malaysian firms burning land in Indonesia

The Malaysian government will not provide assistance to Malaysian companies that violate Indonesian regulations, ...

Haze raises respiratory disease sufferers by 20 pct

The Health Monitoring Office (KKP) of Pekanbaru`s Port recorded increase in respiratory disease by 20 percent as a ...

14 suspects in Riau land fires arrested

The Riau haze management task force has arrested 14 people suspected of involvement in land fires in five different ...

Riau haze forces hundreds of people to evacuate

Haze from forest fire in Riau province has forced around 276 households in Rokan Hilir district to evacuate, Riau ...

Malaysian firms suspected to have sent haze home

Tens of companies have allegedly practiced slash-and-burns to open plantations in Sumatra`s Riau, causing forest fires ...

Number of Sumatra`s fire hot spots drops significantly

The NOAA satellite detected 21 hot spots from forest, plantation and peatland fires across Sumatra, including 13 in ...

Fire destroys hectares of peat forest in Riau

Tens of hectares of peat land have been gutted by fire at Medang Kampai, Dumai, Riau Province, over the past six ...