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West Papua receives award from Conservation International

West Papua Province received the Global Conservation Hero Award from the Conservation International (CI) at the ...

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, ...

EU committed to ensuring sustainability of bioenergy: Ambassador

The European Union (EU) is committed to ensuring the sustainability of bioenergy, and is advancing toward its 2020 and ...

S. Sumatra to likely face longer drought: Disaster Mitigation Agency

The South Sumatra Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has forecast that this year's drought may last longer than that ...

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Prioritizing preventive measures against forest fires

The Indonesian authorities have claimed that te number of forest fires had reduced some 85 percent over the past ...

Rp1 trillion spent on fighting land fires in 2018

The government spent Rp1 trillion for fighting wildfires on peatlands in South Sumatra province last year, Chief of the ...

Governor calls on people to cultivate peatlands for farming

West Kalimantan Governor Sutarmidji has called on people to utilize peatland areas in the region to plant horticulture ...

EU supports Indonesia to realize sustainable palm oil

The European Union (EU) supports Indonesia`s efforts to achieve the target of 100 percent sustainable palm oil by ...

News Focus - ITPC expected to promote sustainable peatland ecosystem management by Fardah Assegaf

Peatlands, which are natural areas of the accumulated decayed plant material known as peat, have huge importance as ...

Indonesia has int`l tropical peat center

As a country with very large peat-lands, Indonesia has become a reference for countries around the world on peat-land ...

Indonesia outperforms Europe in peat restoration: German expert

Global peat expert from Griefswald Moor Centrum Germany Professor Hans Joosten stated that Indonesia has successfully ...

Indonesia promotes sustainable palm oil in Norway

Indonesian Ambassador to Oslo Todung Mulya Lubis and Managing Director of Sustainability & Strategic Golden Agri ...

Indonesia disseminates information on palm oil to Norwegian public

A sustainable palm oil seminar was held in Oslo, Norwegia, to broaden understanding of the image and contribution of ...

BRG allocates rp2.3 billion for peatland restoration in Dumai

The Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) has allocated Rp2.3 billion (US$155 thousand) for the construction of ...

Global warming to see peatlands absorb more carbon in near future: study

Peatlands will store more carbon in the coming years as global warming heightens, but the effect will eventually ...