#land fires

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Jokowi lauds farmers for corn production up 3.3 million tons

Incumbent presidential candidate Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has expressed gratitude to corn farmers who managed to increase ...

Fires burn 124.5 hectares of land in Riau since early January

Some 124.5 hectares of land and forests in Riau Province caught fires since early this year due to low rainfall, ...

UN Environment ready to help finance International Tropical Peatland Center in Bogor

The UN Environment is ready to finance the International Tropical Peatland Center (ITPC) set up in the West Java city ...

Norway offers assistance for landscape program of South Sumatra

Norway is one of the donor countries to have offered help for implementing the Sembilang Dangku landscape program in ...

Indonesia to share best practices at climate change conference

Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya has stated that Indonesia would share the best practices in ...

Wood survives in times of economic turmoil: Environment Minister

Environment and Forestry Affairs Minister (LHK) Siti Nurbaya Bakar said wood still survives in times of economic ...

Forestry businesses optimistic of increase in investment

The Indonesian Forest Entrepreneurs Association (APHI) is optimistic that investment in the forestry sector will ...

BMKG monitoring four hot spots in Aceh

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) is monitoring four hot spots detected by sensors using ...

Disaster handling to be continued with search for victims: BNPB

Earthquake and tsunami handling efforts in Central Sulawesi will continue to prioritize evacuation, rescue, and search ...

Agency makes preparations for transition from dry to rainy season

Head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Willem Rampangilei claimed his agency had taken precautionary ...

BRG allocates rp2.3 billion for peatland restoration in Dumai

The Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) has allocated Rp2.3 billion (US$155 thousand) for the construction of ...

Ministry detects over three thousand hotspots across country

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) had until early this month detected over three thousand hotspots ...

South Sumatra intensifies weather modification technology

The Government of South Sumatra Province is currently intensifying Weather Modification Technology (WMT) by sprinkling ...

news focus - Prolonged drought triggers forest fires in Kalimantan and Java

The Indonesian government has been working all out to prevent forest fires over the last couple of years and been ...

BMKG detects 150 hotspots in Sumatra

The Terra and Aqua satellites have detected 150 hotspots as an early indication of land and forest fires in Sumatra ...