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Maninjau forest's 426 ha encroached for conversion into plantations

Some 426 hectares (ha) of the Maninjau Nature Reserve Forest area in Lubukbasung Sub-district, Agam District, West ...

Indonesia, South Korea explore cooperation in transport infrastructure

Bangkuang).   The meeting was attended by several representatives from the Republic of South Korea, ...

Sako Suban villagers oppose coal road inside South Sumatra forest

Villagers of Sako Suban, Musi Banyuasin, South Sumatra, urged the environmental affairs and forestry ministry to review ...

Five hotspots indicating forest fire detected in North Sumatra

Five hotspots indicative of forest fires were detected in several areas of North Sumatra Province, on Tuesday morning, ...

Five companies, one individual named suspects in fires

Five companies and one individual have been identified as suspects in the forest and land fires in 2019, Forestry and ...

Minister Moeloek instructs to deploy ambulances in smog-stricken areas

Indonesian Health Minister Nila Moeloek instructed Riau's health authority to dispatch Public Safety Center (PSC) ...

Police chief leads Indonesian delegation to 39th ASEANAPOL conference

Chief of the Indonesian Police (Polri) General Tito Karnavian led the Indonesian delegation to the 39th ASEANAPOL ...

Director named suspect in S Sumatra forest fire

The South Sumatra provincial police has named PT Bumi Hijau Lestari operations director Alvaro Khadaff as a suspect in ...

Sumatra Island ravaged by 584 hotspots representing forest fires

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) Station in Pekanbaru, Riau Province, confirmed the presence of 584 ...

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All-out efforts to extinguish wildfires on Sumatra, Kalimantan Islands

Indonesian Defense Forces Commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto, National Police Chief General Tito ...

South Sumatra adopts precautionary measures to avert forest fires

South Sumatra's Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has taken precautionary measures by increasing surveillance in ...

South Sumatra forest fire task force identifies five fire-prone areas

The South Sumatra Forest and Land Fire Task Force has identified five fire-prone areas, the districts of Ogan Ilir, ...

Forest, land fires in Musi Banyuasin extinguished successfully

Forest and land fires in Babat Toman District, Musi Banyuasin District, South Sumatra, on Sunday afternoon, were ...

Indonesia empowers communities to prevent forest fires

The traumatic experiences due to forest fires and the consequent haze disaster are still fresh in the minds of ...

President Jokowi orders to immediately extinguish forest fires

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has ordered every stakeholder to help extinguish forest fires and to tackle haze ...