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Indonesia to utilize foreign assistance to extinguish forest fires

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will utilize several offers of assistance from foreign countries to extinguish forest ...

Govt proposes life insurance aid for haze disaster victims

The government will propose a life insurance assistance for 1.2 million holders of Welfare Family Card (KKS) affected ...

Walhi encourages people to file class action suit over haze disaster

The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has encouraged haze-affected residents to file a class action suit ...

73 hotspots detected in Barito, C. Kalimantan

The Terra and Aqua satellites detected 73 hotspots indicating forest fires along Barito River that flows through the ...

Indonesian forest fires cause regional concern

Millions of people in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore have been affected by the haze mainly arising from forest, ...

Thousands travelers stranded at Pekanbaru on thick smokes

Indonesia still looks helpless in dealing with thick smokes causing inconvenience including disrupting flight ...

Govt investigates hundreds of businesses over haze

The Indonesian government is now investigating a total of 276 business entities suspected to have caused forest fires ...

NGO to provide legal counsel to victims of forest fires

The prolonged drought induced by the El Nino phenomenon, has resulted in a water crisis and harvest failure in some ...

Over 25.5 thousand people taken ill by haze in Riau

The Riau health office has recorded that 25,524 people have fallen ill due to the haze as the air quality has reached ...

President Jokowi orders to immediately extinguish forest fires

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has ordered every stakeholder to help extinguish forest fires and to tackle haze ...

Stern law enforcement needed to tackle forest fires

The problem of haze has been getting worse on Sumatra Island, forcing flight delays and temporary school shutdowns, ...

Riau university students voice five demands concerning haze disaster

Hundreds of students of Riau University here, Monday, staged a rally to express their five-point demands to the ...

Haze from Sumatra's wildfires likely to affect Malaysia, Singapore

Haze has engulfed almost all regions on Sumatra Island and is mostly likely to affect Malaysia and Singapore, ...

Saudi Arabia reports 7 more deaths from MERS

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday confirmed seven more deaths of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus in the ...

Religious Affairs Minister sees off first batch of Indonesian haj pilgrims

Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin officially bid farewell to the first group of haj pilgrims departing ...