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Some 5,929 deployed personnel douse forest fires in five provinces

Some 5,929 personnel, comprising military, police, and civilian officers, were deployed to extinguish forest fires in ...

Drug dealers recruit teenagers as courier in S Kalimantan: police

The South Kalimantan Police's Anti-Drug Department revealed that a local drug ring has used a 15-year-old teenager ...

53 hotspots detected in Riau Province

The Terra and Aqua satellites have detected 53 hotspots indicating forest fires in Riau Province Saturday afternoon, a ...

Malaysian drug ring keeps targeting South Kalimantan: police

Cross-border drug traffickers continue to target South Kalimantan, the local police have revealed while thwarting an ...

Government aims to reduce poverty rate to nine percent

Indonesian Social Affairs Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita has outlined a target to bring down the country's ...

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Indonesia pays serious attention to forest fires handling

Indonesia is bracing for devastating and more frequent forest fires, following the recurrence of bush and forest ...

Social minister and head of BNPB visit South Halmahera

Social Affairs Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita along with Head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency ...

11 provinces should declare alert status for forest fire: Ministry

The Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs has appealed to 11 provincial administrations ...

Home Affairs Ministry synchronizes efforts to tackle water crisis

Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo confirmed his ministry's coordination with the National Disaster Mitigation ...

Forest fires seared through 30,477 thousand hectares area in July

Forest fires had consumed a total of 30,477 hectares of area as of July 2019, Agus Wibowo, spokesman of the National ...

Environment ministry intensifies land and forest fire control

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) and related stakeholders are working together to intensify patrols to ...

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Indonesia makes serious effort to tackle forest fires

Indonesia is bracing for devastating and frequent forest fires, following the recurrence of bush and forest fires in ...

South Kalimantan piloted watershed rehabilitation

South Kalimantan could be an example of the implementation of a national watershed rehabilitation program, the Ministry ...

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Revisiting exotic trail of Bugis culture in Pagatan woven fabric

An old Bugis adage goes that a girl is incomplete if she is unable to weave and encourage several others of her kind to ...

900 hectares of rice fields flooded in Penajam, E Kalimantan

At least 900 hectares of rice fields were inundated in Babulu Sub-district, Penajam Paser Utara District, East ...