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Indonesia, China ink trade protocol for export of mangosteen

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno L. P. Marsudi and Chinese Customs and Excise Minister Ni Yue Feng inked a trade ...

AGC Group's Indonesian company, PT Asahimas Flat Glass, starts commercial production of high value-added products at Cikampek plant

-AGC Inc. announced on April 15 that the AGC group's Indonesian unit, PT Asahimas Flat Glass Tbk (AMG) (*1), began ...

Indonesia, Malaysia to challenge EU on palm oil

A government document outlining Indonesia’s stance on the EU policy and reviewed by Reuters said the method ...

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Indonesia's realistic responses to EU's ban on CPO awaited

Indonesia and Malaysia, dominating the global palm oil production, are reeling from the EU's recent ban on palm ...

China Focus: Boao Forum for Asia connects Hainan to B&R countries

-Representatives from China's southern island province of Hainan and cities and provinces of ASEAN countries signed a ...

Inaugural ASEAN Tourism Awards Japan presented to excellent tours to the ASEAN member states

- The ASEAN-Japan Centre (AJC) has awarded eleven tour products in six categories for the trips with destinations to ...

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Renewing concrete Indo-Pacific cooperation and trust building

Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic nation that strategically straddles the Indian and Pacific oceans ...

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Accelerating rescue operations in flood-hit Sentani

Indonesia has been hit by at least two major floods during this current transitional period from the rainy to the dry ...

UN Environment Assembly adopts five resolutions initiated by Indonesia

The Fourth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) adopted five resolutions initiated by Indonesia, ...

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News Focus -- East Java accelerates flood mitigation efforts

Indonesia is currently transitioning from rainy to the dry season that usually begins in April or May. However, high ...

Joint team has put out 80 percent of peatland fires in Nagan Raya

A joint team of the Indonesian military, police and regional disaster mitigation agency (BPBD) has put out some 80 ...

Governor calls on people to cultivate peatlands for farming

West Kalimantan Governor Sutarmidji has called on people to utilize peatland areas in the region to plant horticulture ...

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Government's intervention helps control dengue outbreak

As Indonesia is experiencing the peak of rainy season in January and February this year, mosquito-borne viral disease ...

Fujitsu to Go Live with Disaster Information Management System in Indonesia's North Sumatra Region

Fujitsu Limited and PT Fujitsu Indonesia today announced installation of its Fujitsu Public Sector Solution Disaster ...

Fires burn 124.5 hectares of land in Riau since early January

Some 124.5 hectares of land and forests in Riau Province caught fires since early this year due to low rainfall, ...