#natural disasters

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Indonesia needs to build awareness in disaster-prone areas: MPR

People's Consultative Assembly (MPR RI) Deputy Speaker Lestari Moerdijat has stressed that central and regional ...

Lebak BPBD readies four rubber boats to anticipate flooding

Lebak's Regional Disaster Mitigation Office (BPBD), Banten, has readied four rubber boats to anticipate flooding ...

Vice President expresses concern over Mount Semeru eruption

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin has expressed his concern over the eruption of Mount Semeru in East Java ...

Climate change issue drowns in social discussions: BMKG official

Climate change is too complex an issue to be discussed in a social setting despite it already impacting the community, ...

Importance of election technology for 2024

The general election and regional head election (pilkada) will be held for the first time in the same year, 2024. In ...

BNPB bolsters tsunami mitigation capacity through Sapa Destana

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), in a press statement here, Monday, confirmed that its disaster ...

BMKG issues flood warning for West Java's 13 districts, cities

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) stated that as many as 13 districts and cities in West Java ...

Spokesperson urges churches to provide option of home worship

Government spokesperson for COVID-19 handling, Reisa Broto Asmoro, has urged churches in Indonesia to provide the ...

Some 2,552 disasters struck Indonesia in 2021: BNPB

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) reported that 2,552 natural disasters, largely floods, tornadoes, and ...

Kamil invites regional heads for disaster handling discussions

West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil will invite regional heads on November 30 to discuss about regional readiness in facing ...

6 Chinese nationals arrested in Papua for illegal gold mining

Indonesian security personnel arrested six undocumented Chinese nationals found illegally mining gold in Sewa village, ...

BNPB Head monitors latest flood situation in West, Central Kalimantan

National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Head Suharyanto surveyed the latest flood situation in West and Central ...

Plate, Denmark's Ambassador discuss cooperation in technology sector

Communication and Informatics Minister (Kominfo) Johnny G. Plate met with Denmark's Ambassador to Indonesia Lars Bo ...

Jokowi instructs BNPB head to meet disaster-mitigation duties promptly

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) instructed Major General Suharyanto, who recently took office as new head of the ...

Amin asks Aceh to prepare disaster mitigation measures

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin has urged the Aceh provincial government to prepare disaster mitigation measures ...