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Collection of smog news, found 14 news.

Govt deploys medical taskforce for 113,000 wildfire ARI cases

The Health Ministry has mobilized a massive medical response across seven provinces as severe forest and land fires ...

Gibran apologizes as toxic haze from land fires persists in Kalimantan

Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka issued a public apology on Thursday as toxic haze and lingering forest ...

Indonesia opens reporting portal for early detection of forest fires

The Indonesian Forestry Ministry has launched an online reporting portal to boost public participation in the early ...

Battling wildfires on a remote and quiet frontier of Natuna

The skies turned a deep red in the final weeks of March and early April over Natuna District, Riau Islands ...

Efforts on to put out wildfires in West Aceh

Personnel from the West Aceh Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) and a joint team of firefighters were striving to ...

South Sumatra police join forest fire control efforts

South Sumatra police have dispatched 159 officers to support the preventive and mitigation efforts of the ...

Jambi police arrest two arsonists for torching land for clearance

Police personnel in Tanjab Timur District, Jambi Province, apprehended two local residents for allegedly torching four ...

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COVID-19 adding to challenge posed by forest fires

With Indonesia still in the grip of the coronavirus, which is known to cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), ...

28 hotspots detected on Sumatra Island

The Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has detected 28 hotspots, indicating forest and ...

President Jokowi urges governors to allocate budget to prevent forest fires

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has called on provincial governors across Indonesia to allocate budget for implementing ...

Economy corrected due to smog from forest, land fires: President

President Joko Widodo said here on Monday that Indonesias economy was corrected by 0.2 percent due to smog problems ...

Mt. Lokon erupts twice on Tuesday

After being not active from eruptions on Monday (September 12), Mt. Lokon in North Sulawesi erupted again on Tuesday, ...

Three hot spots detected in West Kalimantan

The Singaporean NOAA 18 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) satellite has detected three hot spots in ...

Some 7.27 million hectares of forests in C Kalimantan damaged

About 7.27 million hectares of forests in Central Kalimantan are damaged due to deforestation, a lecturer said here ...