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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 ...

Indonesian govt launches Sail Karimata 2016

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Rizal Ramli launched the international maritime event of Sail Karimata ...

Four researchers study rafflesia bengkuluensis habitats in Bengkulu

Four researchers from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) are currently studying the habitat of rare and giant ...

Climatology agency detects 56 hotspots in Riau

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) station in Pekanbaru detected 56 wild fire hotspots in eight ...

Agency to restore over 800 thousand hectares of peatland areas

Two months after its establishment, the Indonesia Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) has claimed that it is now ...

Bandung floods considered worst in 10 years

Floods have spread to wider areas across Indonesian provinces in the last few weeks, with the worst flood striking ...

Sumatra warned over emergence of forest and land fires

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency-Pekanbaru Station detected 42 hotspots in five provinces of ...

Slash-and-burn method contributes to hotspots in Riau: Official

Several hotspots in Bengkalis District, Riau, are caused by the extreme weather during the dry season and the acts of ...

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 ...

Terra and Aqua Satellites detects 68 hotspots over Sumatra Island

The Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) of Pekanbaru detected 68 hotspots that dotted Sumatra Island ...