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Minister highlights carbon storage potential of Indonesian forests

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

Norway to pay Rp812 billion for gas emission reduction in Indonesia

The Government of Norway will for the first time pay up to Rp812.86 billion or 530 million NOK to Indonesia ...

Lore Lindu National Park to reopen Lake Tambing for tourists

The Lore Lindu National Park (TNLL) Office in Central Sulawesi intends to reopen Lake Tambing for tourists by adhering ...

P&G Beauty Convenes Expert Partners to Discuss Responsible Growth in Beauty, Announces P&G Responsible Beauty Systems-Thinking Framework

- This week, P&G Beauty convened a virtual meeting with leading global NGOs to discuss the role of the beauty ...

Deforestation in Aceh may reach 35,000 hectare: Walhi

The deforestation rate in Aceh Province may have reached 35 thousand hectares (ha) in the last three years and will ...

Indonesia keen to learn from Abu Dhabi's Masdar: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) echoed his interest to take a sample from Abu Dhabi's Masdar City in the United Arab ...

Infrastructure development of next capital city to start in mid-2020

The development of infrastructure in Indonesia's next capital city will start in mid-2020, pending the detailed ...

US artist calls for awareness to conserve coral reefs

Artist and ocean advocate Courtney Mattison brought along her spiral porcelain artwork called “Confluence” ...

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Taking a cue on new capital city design from Canberra

Indonesia is looking to Australia’s capital Canberra as a reference for its capital city in East Kalimantan, part ...

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Forest fires destroy parts of Sumatran elephant habitats

Wildfires ravaging forest areas in Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, and South ...

Wildfires in Riau force wild elephants to flee habitats

Few wild elephants fled their habitats, entering residential areas after wildfires spread through the Tesso Nilo ...

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Relocating Indonesia's capital to Kalimantan, 'the world's lungs'

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on August 16, 2019, officially announced his plan to move Indonesia’s capital city ...

South Kalimantan piloted watershed rehabilitation

South Kalimantan could be an example of the implementation of a national watershed rehabilitation program, the Ministry ...

Tanjungpinang offers isolation room to prevent spread of monkeypox

Tanjungpinang Health, Birth Control, and Family Planning Office is offering an isolation room at Raja Ahmad Thabib ...

C Kalimantan takes precautionary measures against spread of monkeypox

Central Kalimantan's provincial government has intensified its prevention and detection system for those arriving ...