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East Kalimantan continues to fight potential occurrence of wildfires

The Indonesian province of East Kalimantan continues to fight the potential occurrence of wildfires as the Meteorology, ...

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Reaping sweet returns with kelulut honey in the heart of Borneo

Suwandi Frans Sutoyo, 30, gently opened the covers of a kelulut honey bee hive, usually made of wooden cutouts, to ...

Haze: BPBD distributes 10,000 masks to schools in Bangka Barat

The Bangka Belitung Islands administration has distributed 10 thousand masks in all schools in Bangka Barat District in ...

Police help handle tanker fire incident in Ampenan waters

Police officers helped handle the Kristin Surabaya tanker fire incident in the waters of Ampenan, Mataram City, West ...

Flights not disrupted by smoke from Tangerang factory fire: official

Flight operations at Soekarno-Hatta Airport were not disrupted by smoke from a fire that razed a nearby plastic pipe ...

Mount Merapi spews incandescent lava 17 times on Wednesday

Mount Merapi, straddling Yogyakarta and Central Java, erupted 17 times on Wednesday, with incandescent lava flowing up ...

Mount Merapi emits incandescent lava 3 times as far as 900 meters

Mount Merapi, standing on the border between Yogyakarta and Central Java, erupted three times on Sunday, with ...

Fire guts seven shop-cum-houses in West Kalimantan's Singkawang

Seven shop-cum-houses in Singkawang City, West Kalimantan Province, caught fire in the wee hours of Friday. An ...

Polytron's warehouses in Central Java ravaged by fire: BPBD

Local firefighters strove incessantly for 15 hours to douse a fire ravaging some warehouses of PT Hartono Istana ...

Efforts on to put out wildfires in West Aceh

Personnel from the West Aceh Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) and a joint team of firefighters were striving to ...

Jambi police arrest two arsonists for torching land for clearance

Police personnel in Tanjab Timur District, Jambi Province, apprehended two local residents for allegedly torching four ...

$5.2 billion losses from forest, land fires: WB

Land and forest fires that affected several parts of Indonesia from June to October 2019 inflicted losses of US$5.2 ...

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Greenpeace campaigns on clean energy, alerts Jokowi's cabinet

At least a dozen environmental activists climbed atop the two main monuments in Jakarta on Wednesday, to unfurl a ...

Haze forces cancellation of 33 flights at Pekanbaru

As many as 33 flights to and from Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport in the Riau provincial capital of Pekanbaru were ...

Riau governor announces state of emergency after air pollution surges

Riau Governor Syamsuar has declared a state of emergency over air pollution caused by land and forest fires in the ...