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Seven villages in Kapuas Hulu prone to forest, land fires

Seven villages in the Kapuas Hulu District, West Kalimantan, are prone to forest and land fires, according to the local ...

Helicopter helps distribute aid in quake-stricken South Halmahera

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) sent an MI-8 helicopter to distribute relief aid to victims of a ...

President calls upon military, police cadets to safeguard Indonesia

President Joko Widodo called upon the Indonesian National Armed Force (TNI) and Indonesian National Police (Polri) ...

Young officers should keep up with technological developments: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) urged teenage officers, who graduated from the Police and Military Academy in 2019, to ...

Forest fires seared through 30,477 thousand hectares area in July

Forest fires had consumed a total of 30,477 hectares of area as of July 2019, Agus Wibowo, spokesman of the National ...

House Speaker meets with President Jokowi to discuss national issues

House Speaker Bambang Soesatyo held a meeting with President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) at the presidential palace, here, on ...

Pekanbaru shrouded in haze from forest fire

Tampan and Senapelan Sub-districts in Pekanbaru, Riau Province, Sumatra Island, on Sunday were shrouded in haze coming ...

Manggala Agni continues fire-fighting efforts in Kampar peatland

The forest fire brigade of the Environmental and Forestry Ministry (Manggala Agni) continued its efforts to extinguish ...

Fire razes 50 hectares of peatland area in Aceh

A fire scorched 50 hectares (ha) of peatland area in West Aceh District, Aceh Province. "We have continued to ...

Aceh's 20-hectare peatland engulfed by fire amid dry season

Fire scorched 20 hectares of peatland in two villages of Nagan Raya District, Aceh, Thursday afternoon, amid the dry ...

South Sumatra police warn plantation companies

The South Sumatra police have warned plantation companies and farmers in the province against conducting slash and burn ...

Riau's land, forest fires covered 3,147 hectares in Jan-June 2019

Land and forest fires in Riau Province during the period from January to June covered an area of 3,147 hectares, ...

Hot spots begin appearing in Riau: BMKG

The Pekanbaru Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) revealed on Monday afternoon that five hot spots, ...

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Environmental lesson to learn from flooding in Southeast Sulawesi

Parts of Indonesia have begun to experience extreme dry season that causes water crisis, while other parts still have ...

South Sumatra adopts precautionary measures to avert forest fires

South Sumatra's Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has taken precautionary measures by increasing surveillance in ...