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Satellites detect 68 hotspots on Sumatra Island

The Terra and Aqua satellites detected 68 hotspots on Sumatra Island, a sharp increase from nine on the previous ...

Riau police name 85 suspects over wildfire cases

The Riau Police have named 85 suspects over wildfires during the January-August 2016 period. The cases are being ...

Lapan detects 74 hotspots across Sumatra

Indonesias National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (Lapan) has reported that the number of hotspots across Sumatra ...

Malaysian drug trafficker gunned down trying to escape

Lew Keng Wah, a Malaysian drug trafficker, was gunned down when he grabbed a gun from an Indonesian police officer ...

Saving remaining Sumatran tigers

Indonesia is one of the 13 countries in the world that have tigers living within their borders. India has the ...

Satellites detect 365 hotspots across Sumatra

The Terra and Aqua satellites of NASA have detected a total of 365 hotspots across Sumatra Island on Wednesday ...

Number of hotspots in Sumatra significantly up, now 159

The number of hotspots across Sumatra Island has increased significantly to 159, from 92 the previous day. Of ...

Batan recommends Bangka Belitong as location for nuclear power plant

The National Atomic Energy Agency (Batan) has recommended the establishment of nuclear power plants (PLTN) in the ...

President urges businessmen, taxpayers to show patriotism

President Joko Widodo has urged businessmen and taxpayers in the country to show their patriotism by supporting all ...

President Jokowi orders expansion of small airports

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has issued a directive to expand small airports across Indonesia, starting 2017, to ...

23 hotspots detected on Sumatra Island

As many as 23 hotspots, with 50 percent indicating forest and plantation fires, were detected in five provinces across ...

Bengkulu promotes "corpse flower" Rafflesia Arnoldii to attract Arab tourists

The tourism industry in Bengkulu Province is promoting the biggest flower in the world Rafflesia Arnoldii as a unique ...

Moderate quake hits North Sulawesi

An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale shook the northern part of Sulawesi island on Thursday night, ...

Magnitude-6.5 earthquake hits W. Sumatra

An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter Scale hit West Sumatra Province, on Thursday at 5:56 a.m. local time, ...

Bank Indonesia provides Rp160 trillion ahead of Lebaran

The Central Bank or Bank Indonesia (BI) has provided Rp160 trillion in cash in a bid to meet the liquidity needs ...