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Dumai customs seize over thousand ecstasy pills smuggled from Malaysia

Dumai customs officers have seized 1,075 ecstasy pills smuggled into Riau Province from Malaysia and have arrested six ...

ASEAN joint patrols needed to protect border areas:VP

Vice President Jusuf Kalla has emphasized the importance of conducting joint patrols by security agencies of the ...

No more hotspots, haze in Riau: Meteorology station

The Pekanbaru Meteorology Station has reported that Riau is clear from haze, as rainfall over the past few days doused ...

Presidential decree on illegal fishing to be ratified

The presidential decree on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing will be ratified soon by President Joko Widodo, ...

Pekanbaru to add new fighter squadron

The Roesmin Nurjadin Airbase in Pekanbaru City of Riau Province will have an additional fighter squadron of F-16 ...

Production of large-scale manufacturing industries up 5.44%

Indonesias large-scale manufacturing industries recorded a production growth of 5.44 percent in the second quarter ...

President Jokowi chairs meeting on El Nino

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo led a limited cabinet meeting here on Friday to discuss measures to face drought and ...

Riau calls for private companies to help fight wildfires

It certainly is no easy task to break the vicious cycle of annual forest, peat land and plantation fires, which have ...

Russia-made helicopter deployed to extinguish Riau wildfires

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has rented a Russian-made Sikorsky helicopter to strengthen its efforts ...

Riau firefighters extinguish 60 wildfires during January-July period

During the January-July 2015 period, Riaus firefighters have put out 60 fires that have razed forest, peatland, and ...

S. Kalimantan on highest alert for wildfires

Authorities of South Kalimantan have declared the highest alert status for wildfires that have been proliferating due ...

Riau authorities extinguish 10 bushfires

The fire brigade and disaster mitigation office of Pekanbaru, Riau Province, has extinguished bushfires in at least 10 ...

Fire in kampar`s Islamic boarding school claims two lives

A fire gutted Al Ihsan Islamic Boarding School and killed two students in Kubang Jaya village, Siak Hulu Sub-district, ...

BMKG reveals 28 hotspots across Sumatra Island

The Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) announced that 28 hotspots have been detected across ...

Six hotspots detected on Sumatra Island

Six hotspots indicating forest and plantation fires were detected on Sumatra Island, according to the Pekanbaru ...