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Govt allocating up to Rp5 trillion annually for disaster mitigation

The Indonesian government has been earmarking Rp4 trillion-Rp5 trillion every year for disaster mitigation efforts in ...

Environmental NGO JPIK cautions Indonesia of ongoing deforestation

Independent Forestry Monitoring Network (JPIK) cautioned the government and relevant parties of ongoing deforestation ...

Mount Merapi releases hot clouds on Tuesday morning

Mount Merapi, located between Central Java and Yogyakarta, ejected hot clouds as far as 700 meters to the southwest ...

Preserving forests to sustain food independence in N Maluku

Renowned biologist Alfred Russel Wallace has famously written about his delight at discovering an Ornithoptera ...

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Daily disasters bring mitigation, prevention to fore

The Indonesian people need to find a way to live with natural disasters considering the nation’s geographic ...

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Stringent law enforcement crucial to keep forest fire cases down

Indonesia, home to the world's third-largest tropical rainforests, has been successful in significantly reducing ...

Forest, land fires down by 82% in 2020: Mahfud MD

  The incidence of forest and land fires declined by around 82 percent in the past year, based on data ...

Conserve mangroves in tsunami-prone villages, minister

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, has urged regional governments to ...

NZMP™ customers set to benefit from new carbonzero certified ingredients

NZMP™, Fonterra’s dairy ingredient and solutions brand, has launched a new carbonzero certified Organic Butter. ...

Indonesia eyes narrowing down disaster-triggered GDP contraction

Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan highlighted the government's target to ...

Mt Merapi spews lava 12 times in single day

Mount Merapi, which straddles Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces, emitted lava 12 times between midnight and 6 p.m. ...

Five hectares of marijuana plantation in North Aceh destroyed

Aceh Office had destroyed 3.5 hectares of marijuana plantation on a mountain slope in Lamteuba area of Aceh Besar ...

Nine disasters reported per day in past year: BNPB

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has recorded a total of 3,253 natural disasters in the one year since ...

Pandemic an opportunity to strengthen disaster resilience: Widodo

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has said that the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has offered an opportunity to ...

Forest restoration following Mount Merapi eruption to take few years

The Mount Merapi National Park Center (BTNGM) pegged that the process of restoring the forest destroyed by the eruption ...