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Four major projects to lower unemployment, poverty rates in 2021

Public Works and Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono expressed belief that four major projects in infrastructure ...

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Green economy takes precedence in push for recovery

With people forced to lock themselves at home to break the chain of COVID-19 spread, pollution has reduced ...

BRG: Peatland restoration cuts greenhouse gas emissions significantly

Peatland restoration conducted by the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in seven provinces has helped reduce greenhouse ...

Food estates will not encroach protected zones: minister

The Indonesian government has stressed that the farmland areas selected for its food estate programs in Central ...

C Kalimantan food estate to ensure peatland preservation: Ministry

The Ministry of Agriculture affirmed that the program to build a food estate in Central Kalimantan will ensure ...

PT CPI-BRG trains Riau's 10 villages on zero burning land clearing

Oil firm PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia and the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) developed a program of zero burning ...

Survey indicates womankind burdened more during COVID-19 pandemic

A survey of the UN Women, in cooperation with the Independent Journalist Alliance (AJI) Jakarta and Indonesia's ...

Researcher develops seawater-based agriculture method

An Indonesian researcher has developed a marine ‘aquagriculture’ method, or “seawater-based modern ...

BRG develops 14 food resilience-based villages in peatland areas

The Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) has developed 14 food resilience-based villages in peatland areas, in cooperation ...

Minister highlights carbon storage potential of Indonesian forests

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan acknowledged endeavors to preserve ...

Deployment of South Sumatra's fire task force continues despite rains

The South Sumatra provincial police is continuing to deploy hundreds of its personnel to combat forest and land fires ...

Efforts on to put out wildfires in West Aceh

Personnel from the West Aceh Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) and a joint team of firefighters were striving to ...

Jambi police arrest two arsonists for torching land for clearance

Police personnel in Tanjab Timur District, Jambi Province, apprehended two local residents for allegedly torching four ...

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Government links food security to national defense

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has cautioned that the COVID-19 pandemic is posing a serious threat to food ...

NLPSF researcher cautiously supports Indonesia's food-estate program

A senior researcher of the Palangka Raya University's Natural Laboratory of Peat Swamp Forest (NLPSF) suggested ...