The Agriculture Ministry is preparing swamp land in South Sumatra as a productive agricultural area to make the region a national food buffer and bring down ...
A senior member of Indonesia’s parliament on Oct. 10 called for tougher police action against companies responsible for land fires, as air pollution continued to shutter schools and sicken thousands across Sumatra and Borneo. “I am asking the police and all related officials to be decisive, and look not only for those who start fires, […]
New acute respiratory infections in Indonesia’s Palembang city, on the island of Sumatra, are on track to surpass the total number recorded there in 2022, as firefighters scramble to confront wildfires brought on by this year’s El Niño dry season. The health department in Palembang, the capital of South Sumatra province, said health workers in […]
JAKARTA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Several provinces in Sumatra and Kalimantan have been blanketed with haze from raging forest fires that worsened in August, causing a surge in people with respiratory ailments such as sore throat and shortness of breath.
Chief of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), Suharyanto, said his side ensures that forest and land fires in Ogan Komering Ilir District, South ...
The South Sumatra police on Wednesday dispatched 300 officers to villages that have been determined to be vulnerable to wildfires during this year's dry ...
In 1963 and earlier, the share of rubber supply from Indonesia in Japan averaged only about 0.2 percent. But in the first half of 1965, it increased to 38.2 percent.