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Walhi activists report several hundred hotspots in S Sumatra's forests

Activists of the Indonesian Environmental Forum (Walhi) chapter in South Sumatra reported about hundreds of hotspots ...

Fires ravage 60 hectares land in Bintan in one week

Fires have laid to waste around 60 hectares of peatland and bushland in Bintan district, Riau Islands province in the ...

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Stringent law enforcement crucial to keep forest fire cases down

Indonesia, home to the world's third-largest tropical rainforests, has been successful in significantly reducing ...

Forest, land fires down by 82% in 2020: Mahfud MD

  The incidence of forest and land fires declined by around 82 percent in the past year, based on data ...

Riau's BPBD stations 6,000 personnel to prevent, handle forest fires

The Regional Disaster Mitigation Office (BPBD) of Riau Province, in collaboration with other related offices, stationed ...

Police arrests resident on charge of igniting fire on 5 ha of land

West Kalimantan Police have arrested a resident of Kubu Raya District  on charge of igniting land fire in Bansir ...

BMKG reports 18 hotspots in Bengkalis District

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) recorded the presence of 18 hotspots indicating forest and ...

Jokowi seeks local governments' continued vigil against forest fires

Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) reminded local governments to remain vigilant in facing the threat of forest ...

Stamp out forest fires before they spread: Jokoowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has directed regional government heads as well as local military (TNI) and police ...

No compromise on handling forest arsonists: Indonesian president

President Joko Widodo stressed that the law enforcement apparatus should handle forest arsonists without ...

BNPB reports 81-percent reduction in forest, land fires in Nov 2020

Head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Doni Monardo highlighted that the cases of forest and land fires ...

Deployment of South Sumatra's fire task force continues despite rains

The South Sumatra provincial police is continuing to deploy hundreds of its personnel to combat forest and land fires ...

Satellites identify 23 hotspots of forest fires in North Sumatra

The Terra and Aqua satellites as well as the NOAA20 satellites unearthed 23 medium-category hotspots in North Sumatra ...

Indonesia takes precautionary measures against forest fires forecast

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Mahfud MD highlighted the government’s ...

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COVID-19 adding to challenge posed by forest fires

With Indonesia still in the grip of the coronavirus, which is known to cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), ...