In Kalumpang, West Sulawesi, a person may be allowed to apply for a motorcycle ownership credit after planting a tree. Local residents rushed to apply for the credit after attending a familiarization event of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Program.
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BMKG: Rainfall Intensity Still Varied
The Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) forecast the rainfall in Jakarta in the following week will still be varied. The rainfall intensity started from light, medium, to heavy.
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Tourists Warned of Landslide in Bromo
Landslides and erosions are threatening the access to Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, East Java, as rain keeps on drenching the international tourism site.
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Water Counselor From the Savanna
The story of a village that was hit by drought, disease, and water difficulty, turned into a healthy village with abundant clean water. Water has made them achieve many things. Surprisingly, who became pioneer are children. The rainy season should have been passed in Lembata and the sun shining properly burns the skin. But Dikesare, […]
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Cyclone Destroys Tens of Homes in Denpasar
At least 80 homes in Denpasar, Bali, were damaged by a tropical cyclone, also known as ‘puting beliung‘, that hit the city at around 2:00 p.m. local time. The Denpasar Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) said on Wednesday that ten out of these 80 were severely damaged.
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15 Percent of East Nusa Tenggara’s Coral Reef Damaged
The WWF Indonesia’s Solor-Alor Program noted a decline in the quality and health of coral reefs in East Nusa Tenggara waters. The decline, averaging at 14.99 percent, was discovered through a survey by Mantatow in 2013 in the waters of Alor. In East Flores, the only 22 percent of its ecological baseline is in healthy […]
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More Wild Birds Discovered on Java Island
The Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY) contains 67 percent of Java’s wild birds. In 1995, there were only 140 recorded wild birds in this region, yet by 2013 as many as 338 wild birds were discovered. There are 508 types of wild birds on the island of Java.
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Rawa Tripa Residents Form Group to Save Environment
As many as 150 villagers from seven villages around the carbon-rich Rawa Tripa form a group to save the environment. “This is a notion from the community, particularly to rescue peat swamps in Darul Makmur,” said the Chairman of the group care for the Rawa Tripa environment, Ibrahim.
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Police Uncover Illegal Log Factory
The Tasikmalaya Resort Police, West Java, raided two illegal storehouses and a wood processing factory in Gunung Kalong Village, Cibeureum and Jl. Letnan Harun, Indihiang district last Thursday. The teak woods (Tecona grandis) in the factory is believed to be obtained from illegal logging in the land belong to state-owned forestry company Perum Perhutani, Tasikmalaya Administrator […]
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Court Releases Two People Feasting on Orangutan Meat
The Pontianak District Court on Tuesday granted the release of Hanapi and Ignatius, two men arrested for suspicion of eating orangutan meat. Chief justice Erwin Tjong ruled the arrest of the two defendants was unlawful as law enforcers did not have a search warrant when they searched their home.