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Indonesia Making Preparations for March 9 Total Solar Eclipse Tours

Indonesia is set to welcome tourists and scientists keen on witnessing the spectacular total solar eclipse, with the ...

Indonesia Making Preparations for March 9 Total Solar Eclipse Tours

Indonesia is set to welcome tourists and scientists keen on witnessing the spectacular total solar eclipse, with the ...

Peatland Restoration Agency established to prevent forest fires

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), under Presidential Regulation No. 1 of 2016, dated January 6, 2016, has established a ...

Environment ministry to establish peat land restoration agency

The Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry will establish a Peatland Restoration Agency for land conservation ...

Jambi to have international sea port soon

The Indonesian province of Jambi on Sumatra Island will soon have a new international seaport of Ujung Jabung at ...

Satellite detects 44 hotspots in Sumatra

The Terra and Aqua Satellites have detected 40 hotspots located in Sumatra Island, which were mostly found in Riau ...

Sumatran tigers breed well in South Bukit Barisan

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Indonesia said that at least 80 Sumatran Tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) are ...

Orangutans living outside natural habitat need attention

Orangutans are usually cute, adorable and smart that some people want to keep them as pets. Besides, orangutans and ...

Earthquake jolts Bengkulu

An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale jolted Bengkulu Province, Sumatra Island, on Sunday at 11.05 am local ...

Lampung seaport police confiscate 10 kgs of marijuana from passenger

Lampung`s Bakauheni seaport police have confiscated a package containing 10 kilograms of dried marijuana from an ...

Java island`s power plant to stop using fuel oil

The government aims to stop using fuel oil for electricity power plants situated in Java island by June 2012. "In ...

President receives report on Aceh quake management

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has received the report on the government response to the powerful earthquake which ...

West Aceh needs more sirens for tsunami warning system, BNPB

Chief of Aceh Disaster Mitigation Agency Teuku Ahmad Dadek said West Aceh district needs more sirens for tsunami early ...

No casualties in Aceh quake

No casualties were reported in the magnitude-8.9 earthquake that struck Simeulue district, Aceh Province, last ...

round-up: huge quake again hits Aceh, no report of death

Only a couple of days after the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) or Aceh province held simultaneous regional head ...