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Haze affects health of 28,000 residents in Riau

More than 28,000 people are suffering from various smoke-related diseases, due to forest and land fires occurring over ...

Satellite detects 1,046 hotspots from forest fires in Sumatra

The Terra and Aqua satellite has detected 1,046 hotspots from forest, plantation and peatland fires across Sumatra ...

Fires scorch 6,000 hectares of land, forests in Riau

Six thousand hectares of land and forests were destroyed by fire in Riau province, according to a disaster mitigation ...

Strict law enforcement ordered against forest fire perpetrators

As haze shrouded Sumatras cities over the past two months, President Yudhoyono has ordered strict law enforcement to ...

Four tigers wander around as their habitat catches fire

Four Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) were wandering in the area where fire brigade personnel were ...

Squadron of F16 jets in Pekanbaru to operate in June

The Indonesian Air Force (TNI AU) has set a target to make a squadron of 24 F16 fighter jets operational at the ...

Indonesian total fertility rate target uneasily achieved: Official

Indonesia would uneasily achieve its total fertility rate (TFR) target of 2.36 under its mid term development plan, ...

Haze from Riau will not disperse to Singapore and Malaysia

The haze from the Riau Province in Sumatra will not disperse to Singapore and Malaysia, although a total of 1,234 ...

Bangladeshi illegal immigrants arrested in Riau

Riau police arrested Eight Bangladeshi nationals, alleged to be illegal immigrants, in Bengkalis district, according ...

Riau bush fire`s hot spot multiplied 150 times

Bush fire hot spots in Riau have multiplied 150 times, from 64 on Sunday (Feb. 23) to 1,234 on Monday, across eight ...

Visibility only 50 meters in Riau due to haze

The worsening forest fires in some areas of Riau Province has reduced the visibility to about only 50 meters, an ...

46 elephants found dead in riau in three years : WWF

A total of 46 elephants were found dead in Riau province between 2011 and 2014, with most of them without ivory, ...

10 people named as suspects in Riau`s forested land fires

The Environment Ministry has named 10 people charged with setting fire to forested land in Riau Province last year. ...

Bones of seven elephants found in Riau`s industrial forest

The bones of seven elephants were recently found in an industrial forest in Pelalawan district, Riau province, ...

US offers training for forest rangers in Indonesia

The United States plans to offer training for forest rangers in Indonesia to enable them to tackle incidents such as ...