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Dry spell leaves Indonesia's 100 districts, cities parched: ministry

A dry spell has cast a pall over 100 districts and cities in the Aceh, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java, ...

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Indonesia makes serious effort to tackle forest fires

Indonesia is bracing for devastating and frequent forest fires, following the recurrence of bush and forest fires in ...

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Indonesia devotes serious effort to tackling impact of drought

Indonesia is bracing for a devastating and protracted drought this year, according to the warning of the Meteorology, ...

Water crisis cripples life in Central Java's Banyumas

Some 3,150 families in 12 villages in Banyumas District, Central Java Province, are reeling from a clean water crisis ...

Palangka Raya works to halt recurrence of forest fires

The authorities in Palangka Raya have been striving to halt the recurrence of bush and forest fires in the Central ...

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 ...

Indonesia, Australia intensify bilateral cooperation before COP25

Indonesia and Australia increased bilateral cooperation on environment and climate change before the 2019 UN Climate ...

South Sumatra police warn plantation companies

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

Hot spots begin appearing in Riau: BMKG

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

South Sumatra adopts precautionary measures to avert forest fires

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

Aceh hit by 283 forest fires since 2016

Aceh Province has recorded a total of 283 cases of forest fires that hit Indonesia's western most province since ...

Four development projects receive 37 million euros funding

Indonesia and Germany inked a cooperation agreement under which four development projects will receive funding of 37 ...

South Sumatra forest fire task force identifies five fire-prone areas

The South Sumatra Forest and Land Fire Task Force has identified five fire-prone areas, the districts of Ogan Ilir, ...

Low-carbon development crucial to achieving economic growth of 5.7 pct

The environmental director of the Ministry of National Development Planning/The National Development Planning Board ...

Aceh's six-hectare palm oil plantation area ravaged by fire

The local firefighting squad, Thursday, made sustained attempts to extinguish the fire ravaging six hectares of the ...