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Riau prepares for land and forest fires this year

Riau Governor Syamsuar issued a land and forest fire emergency preparedness status, effective Feb 11-Oct 31, 2020, as ...

Riau plans to issue wildfire emergency preparedness status

The Riau provincial administration unveiled its plan to issue a land and forest fire emergency preparedness status at a ...

Sumatran tigers attack several cows in Riau: BKSDA

The Riau Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) deployed a team to handle the recent attacks of wild Sumatran ...

15 hot spots detected in Riau: BMKG

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) detected 15 hotspots in six districts of Riau Province on ...

People throng Jakarta Planetarium to witness annular solar eclipse

Hundreds of visitors congregated at Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, Thursday, to participate in the observation and ...

Riau may have nearly 100,000 drug users: Govt

The prevalence of drug use in Riau Province has reached 1.87 percent of its total productive-age population with nearly ...

Densus 88 arrests five suspected terrorists in Riau

The Counterterrorism Squad of the National Police, Densus 88, arrested five suspected terrorists in the districts of ...

Weekend Stories

Air pollution issues still shroud South-East Asian countries

Despite being home to an abundance of rich natural resources, poor air quality and vast environmental degradation ...

South Sumatra BPBD's five water bombers deployed for fire suppression

South Sumatra's Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has deployed five water bombing helicopters to douse land and ...

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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 ...

Siak police point to economic benefits impelling arsonists

The arsonists, arrested by the police for their alleged involvement in wildfires in Siak District, Riau Province, came ...

Air pollution emergency status revoked as Riau air quality stabilizes

The air pollution emergency status in Riau was revoked following an improvement in air quality and no further detection ...

Air clearer following reduction in hotspots in Sumatra, Kalimantan

A drop in the number of hotspots in Sumatra and Kalimantan to 673 on Monday, 6 p.m. Western Indonesian Standard Time, ...

Jokowi's visit to forest fire-ravaged Central Kalimantan shelved

President Joko Widodo’s (Jokowi’s) initial plan to embark on a working visit to Central Kalimantan Province ...

Haze forces cancellation of 33 flights at Pekanbaru

As many as 33 flights to and from Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport in the Riau provincial capital of Pekanbaru were ...