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Jakarta facing water crisis

Jakarta is facing a clean water crisis as the nation`s demand for drinking water continues to surpass its supply, ...

Indonesia urges Singapore re-opening of talks on extradition agreement

Indonesia has urged Singapore to re-open talks on extradition and defense agreements, which were carried out before ...

President Yudhoyono holds talks Singaporean prime minister

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono held bilateral talks with visiting Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on ...

PLN ready to build Jatigede hydro power plant

State electricity company PT PLN is planning to build a hydro power plant with a capacity of 2x25 megawatts in ...

Ministry launches environmentally-friendly building certification system

The Environment Ministry has launched an environmentally-friendly building certification system, the ministry`s chief, ...

South Lampung PLTP to operate in 2015

The geothermal power plant (PLTP) in South Lampung regency was slated to start operating in 2015 with a capacity of ...

Indonesia ready to host ICOLD meeting

Indonesia is ready to host the 82nd meeting of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD), the Indonesian ...

Iraq violence kills six, wounds two Norwegians

A spate of attacks in Iraq Monday killed six people including a Christian whose body was mutilated while two ...

RI ready to increase contribution to ASEAN food reserve

Indonesia is ready to increase its contribution to the ASEAN food reserve from originally 12,000 tons to 25,000 tons ...

Earth short of water by 2025

The earth may face a water shortage by 2025 as the result of lack of concern for the environment causing a water ...

250,000 Pakistani children die a year due to unsafe water

Findings of a government body suggest that unsafe water kills 250,000 children in Pakistan a year. According to a new ...

RI expected to ratify two significant enviro accords

Indonesia, as one of the world`s mega diversity countries and a main "exporter" of haze in Southeast Asia, has planned ...

Chavez says capitalism may have destroyed life on Mars

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said life probably existed on the Red Planet, but was destroyed by capitalism and ...

Govt needs Rp 10 trillion investment in drinking water

The government is preparing two million house connections of drinking water with an investment of Rp10 trillion in ...

Singapore monitoring forest fire smoke in Jambi

Singapore continues to monitor smoke from forest fires that often blankets Jambi and its surrounding areas and ...