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Kadin asks research, technology ministry to study Riau`s haze

The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) has asked the Ministry of Research and Technology to study ...

Thousands of soldiers deployed to fight fires

Thousands of soldiers have been sent to fight remaining forest and land fires in six locations in Riau province. ...

President Yudhoyono hopes neighbors not to send wrong signals

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said neighboring countries should not give wrong signals over land and forest fires ...

Indonesia launches comprehensive forest management index

The Indonesian government in cooperation with UNDP and UNREDD has launched an English edition comprehensive forest ...

Nine already arrested over forest fires

Nine people have been arrested in connection with forest and peat land fires in several places in Riau. "One ...

Riau haze forces hundreds of people to evacuate

Haze from forest fire in Riau province has forced around 276 households in Rokan Hilir district to evacuate, Riau ...

RI forest moratorium overlapping

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in May 2013 extended the country`s forest moratorium but it was ...

Greenpeace asks Indonesia to carry out forest moratorium

Greenpeace Indonesia has asked the government to firmly carry out its commitment of forest moratorium because ...

The Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry Collaborated with Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) to Release Orangutan

- The Ministry of Forestry of Republic of Indonesia (MF) partnered with Orangutan Foundation International (OFI), PT. ...

Hotspots show weaknesses of Indonesia`s forest moratorium: Greenpeace

Greenpeace said Thursday half of the hotspots detected on June 11-18, whose smoke travelled to Singapore and Malaysia ...

President orders ministries to put out forest fires

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered all ministries and relevant institutions to put out forest fires in Sumatra ...

US, Indonesia committed to increasing carbon trade cooperation

The United States is committed to increasing bilateral cooperation in carbon trade with Indonesia. The commitment ...

Moratorium Extension Needed For Better Forest Governance

A tag of war between environmental groups and forest industrialists have resumed as Indonesia`s regulation on a ...

Extending Forest Moratorium Means Extending Life

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono finally on May 13, 2013 signed Presidential Instruction No. 6/2013 on Suspension of ...

Indonesia suffers sixty floodings in a decade

Indonesia has suffered sixty times of floodings as shown by data collected over a last decade and is thus recorded as ...