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Agency to restore over 800 thousand hectares of peatland areas

Two months after its establishment, the Indonesia Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) has claimed that it is now ...

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 ...

29 hotspots detected in Riau

The Terra and Aqua Satellites detected 29 hotspots in five districts of Riau Province, Sunday. The number of ...

Indonesia empowers communities to prevent forest fires

The traumatic experiences due to forest fires and the consequent haze disaster are still fresh in the minds of ...

Hotspots detected on Sumatra Island

The Terra and Aqua satellites detected 47 hotspots across Sumatra Island on Friday despite rains over the past two ...

E. Jakarta blast not terrorist attack: Police

A Monday morning hand grenade blast, which wounded a security guard and damaged the front door of Multi Meranti Graha ...

Over 78 thousand people become haze victims in Riau

The Health Service of Riau recorded that haze has affected the health of 78,879 people in the province. "The ...

Dayak Benuaq community wins Equator Prize

The indigenous community of Dayak Benuaq in Muara Tae, West Kutai, East Kalimantan province, has won the Equator Prize ...

Over 25.5 thousand people taken ill by haze in Riau

The Riau health office has recorded that 25,524 people have fallen ill due to the haze as the air quality has reached ...

Riau police name 32 suspects in plantation fire cases

The Riau provincial police have named 32 suspects in forest and plantation fire cases, and 21 of them have been handed ...

Riau authorities extinguish 10 bushfires

The fire brigade and disaster mitigation office of Pekanbaru, Riau Province, has extinguished bushfires in at least 10 ...

Riau Police name 15 suspects over forest fires in Riau

The Riau Police has named 15 arsonists as suspects responsible for the forest fires that occurred in January and ...

Batam to have two botanical gardens

Batam City, Riau Islands Province, will have two botanical gardens having different functions, to be located ...

16 hectares of forest area razed by fires in Riau

At least 16 hectares of forest area were razed by fires in Riau Province, in May 2014, according to data from the ...