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UAE keen to invest in Indonesia's sugar industry: ministry

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has expressed interest in investing in Indonesia's farming sector, specifically ...

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Reviving Indonesia's self-reliance in soybean production

At the beginning of 2021, residents of the Greater Jakarta Area, including Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi, found ...

Ministry seeks to raise cooperatives' GDP contribution to 5.5% by 2024

The Cooperatives and Small and Medium Businesses Ministry has said it is aiming to boost the contribution of ...

Maninjau forest's 426 ha encroached for conversion into plantations

Some 426 hectares (ha) of the Maninjau Nature Reserve Forest area in Lubukbasung Sub-district, Agam District, West ...

Police confiscate 528.55-kg dried cannabis from four suspects in Aceh

The National Police seized 528.55 kilograms (kg) of dried marijuana from four suspected drug traffickers apprehended ...

Superior Indonesian soybeans

Soybean is the main raw material used in the manufacture of tempeh and tofu that are widely consumed by Indonesian ...

Six hotspots identified in North Sumatra

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency detected six hotspots in several areas in North Sumatra Province on ...

Five hotspots indicating forest fire detected in North Sumatra

Five hotspots indicative of forest fires were detected in several areas of North Sumatra Province, on Tuesday morning, ...

Govt committed to building food resilience: minister

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartart, has said the government is committed to strengthening ...

Ministry asked to raise 2022 investment target to Rp1,200 trillion

Investment Minister and head of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM), Bahlil Lahadalia, has said that President ...

Walhi activists report several hundred hotspots in S Sumatra's forests

Activists of the Indonesian Environmental Forum (Walhi) chapter in South Sumatra reported about hundreds of hotspots ...

Nutmeg gives Banda Islands lingering scent of profit

Nutmeg, or Myristica fragrans Houtt, appears to thrive on almost all inhabited islands of Banda. The spice has held a ...

WALHI praises Dutch court's 45-pct emission reduction verdict for RDS

Indonesia's NGO, WALHI, or Friends of the Earth Indonesia, applauded a verdict by a Dutch court ordering Royal ...

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New Investment Ministry expected to drive economic transformation

The Joko Widodo administration's decision to upgrade the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) into the Ministry of ...

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On the scent of the Dutch nutmeg on Banda Islands

The Islands of Banda have stood witness to the nutmeg trade in its heyday, when the spice, which was endemic to the ...