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President orders activating command posts to handle smoke from fires

President Joko Widodo has ordered to activate command posts to control and tackle smoke problems in Sumatra and ...

Indonesia, Timor Leste to jointly manage catchment areas

Indonesia and Timor Leste have agreed to cooperate in the management of catchment areas (DAS) along the two countries ...

Indonesian haze begins escalating to neighboring countries

At least eight provinces in Indonesia currently have an increasing number of hotspots producing smoke from forest and ...

Businessman sentenced for bribing officials

A businessman was sentenced to five years for paying bribes to officials including parliamentary members in connection ...

Global warming affect most of Indonesian area: Forestry minister

Indonesia is considered as one of the developing countries that is worst affected by global warming, because Indonesia ...

Fishery ministry warns against breeding of foreign fish species

The marine and fishery ministry has warned of extinction of Indonesian endemic fish species with the breeding of ...

PT. Rimba Raya Conservation Hands Over the Community Development Funds to Four Villages in Seruyan Regency

- Four of nine villages in Seruyan Regency have received the Village Development Funds as a realization of the ...

Racing against time to save Riau`s biosphere reserve from fires

Sumatras Riau Province is badly hit by forest and plantations fires, and the largest number of the hotspots detected ...

Fires scorch 6,000 hectares of land, forests in Riau

Six thousand hectares of land and forests were destroyed by fire in Riau province, according to a disaster mitigation ...

Former minister questioned by anti-graft agency as witness

Former minister of forestry MS Kaban here, Thursday, was questioned as a witness by the Corruption Eradication ...

Protected forests destroyed by Mt Kelud`s eruption

Mount Keluds eruption last Thursday has damaged 70 percent of protected forests within a radius of three kilometers ...

KPK leader grateful for Anggoro arrest before Chinese New Year

Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Bambang Widjojanto expressed his gratitude toward the ...

KPK arrests Anggoro Widjojo

KPK, Indonesias anti-graft agency, has arrested its long-wanted corruption suspect, Anggoro Widjojo, in China. ...

US, Indonesia cooperate to protect tropical forest

The United States government and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry launched a new rainforest standard for carbon ...

Ministry assigns team to probe lion`s death in Surabaya Zoo

The Forestry Ministry assigned an investigative team to probe the death of Michael, an African lion, who was found ...