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Volcanic ash from Mt Sinabung affects four sub-districts

Volcanic ash from the erupting Mount Sinabung that reached two thousand meters into the air affected four sub-districts ...

Satellites identify 23 hotspots of forest fires in North Sumatra

The Terra and Aqua satellites as well as the NOAA20 satellites unearthed 23 medium-category hotspots in North Sumatra ...

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 ...

TransJakarta plans to start operating 100 electric buses by 2020-end

Blok M route at the TransJakarta Office here on Monday. The electric bus plying on the Balai Kota-Blok M route will ...

Indonesia takes precautionary measures against forest fires forecast

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Mahfud MD highlighted the government’s ...

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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), ...

Government sees dramatic increase in forest fires in Aug-Sep

Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, said the Indonesian government is anticipating a potential ...

Exposure to forest, land fire smoke worsens COVID-19 risk: Monardo

COVID-19 Handling Acceleration Task Force Chief Doni Monardo cautioned that heavy smoke from forest and land fires, ...

Mount Merapi erupts again, spewing huge ash cloud

Mount Merapi, straddling the provinces of Central Java and Yogyakarta, erupted again on Saturday morning, spewing a ...

Mount Merapi erupts, spewing ash cloud six thousand meters high

Indonesia's most active volcano, Merapi, erupted on Tuesday, producing a massive smoke and ash column that rose to ...

Weekend Stories

Inside the centuries-old temple in Jakarta on Lunar New Year

In the half hour past midnight, crowds of Chinese descendants, dressed in all red attire, throng the main premises of ...

$5.2 billion losses from forest, land fires: WB

Land and forest fires that affected several parts of Indonesia from June to October 2019 inflicted losses of US$5.2 ...

Yogyakarta resident's house targeted in Molotov cocktail bomb attack

A molotov cocktail bomb was hurled at a verandah of a house in Balecatur Village, Gamping Sub-district, here, on early ...

Security to not be increased around Monas Square: Jakarta Police

The Jakarta Metropolitan Police confirmed that security around the National Monument (Monas) Square's outer area ...

Monas' smoke grenade blast case left to police for probe: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) left the case of smoke grenade blast at National Monument (Monas), Jakarta, Tuesday, to ...