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Author: Florence Armein

Florence Armein is the Indonesia Content Coordinator for EJN's Asia-Pacific project where she manages Ekuatorial, a GeoJournalism site that uses geographic data and news stories to cover climate change in Indonesia. She joins EJN with over 10 years of experience in radio and television. At BeritaSatu Media Holdings, where she worked for five years, she managed a student publication, special media projects and established Indonesia’s first English news channel. Prior to her media work, Florence worked on development projects relating to judicial reform funded by MCC and USAID. Prior to joining EJN, Florence was working part-time as General Manager for Da Vinci Learning, a science and knowledge channel from Germany, and served as a Video Content Coordinator for the Indonesia Economic Forum and Indonesia Property Forum. Florence is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.
February 20, 2014

Biosphere Reserve Forests in Riau Endangered

Giam Siak Kecil and Bukit Batu biosphere reserve forests in Bengkalis Regency, Riau have become endangered due to forest fires that occur over the last two weeks. “[The fires] have burnt around 1,000 hectares and they keep spreading,” Bengkalis Police chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner Andry Wibowo told Tempo on Thursday, February 20, 2014. [Continue reading on Tempo]

February 18, 2014

Lack of Rain, Riau Remains Smoky

Pekanbaru Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has stated the potential of rainfall on Riau hotspots is still in minimum scale. Bright and smoky weather were still dominating several regions. [Read full text on Tempo]

February 17, 2014

Air Quality in Kediri Threatens Children

The Environment Health Engineering and Disease Control of the Ministry of Health is conducting air quality measuring on several spots in Kediri, East Java which is affected by Mount Kelud’s volcanic dust after the eruption. The air quality is believed to be harmful for the refugees, especially for those who wear no masks. [Read full […]

February 11, 2014

BMKG Monitor Hotspots in Aceh, Sumut, and Riau

Based on the monitoring of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agent (BMKG), South Sumatra is still safe from hotspots that could potentially cause fire of forest and plantations, although the last few days several provinces in Sumatra started being detected many hotspots. [Read full text on Green Journalist]  

February 10, 2014

Another Elephant Down in Riau

Another Sumatran Elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) was found dead in Riau. The 30-year-old giant animal was found by the residents of Tasik Serai Village, Bengkalis Regency in the concession area of industrial forest of PT Arara Abadi.

February 5, 2014

Mangroves in North Aceh is in Critical State

Mangroves in North Aceh experienced significant area depreciation. This happens due to land use changes that mostly to made ​​ponds. “It is estimated that only 3,000 hectares of protected forest remaining today”, said Head of Forestry and Plantation of North Aceh, Eddi Sofiyan. [Read full text on Aceh Terkini]

February 5, 2014

Activist: Jakarta Investors May Add Forest Problems in Bandung

A discussion of problems in North Bandung Region at of Sunda Forestry and Environmental Observation Council (DPKLTS) revealed that investors from Jakarta are targeting north Bandung region for their business location. The investors seem to relocate their business since lands in Bogor have been more difficult to acquire. Continue reading on Tempo

December 15, 2013

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, […]

September 17, 2013

AMAN: “Pasca Perpres REDD ada 4 Hal yang Perlu Dicermati”

Jakarta, Ekuatorial – Berbagai tanggapan muncul pasca keluarnya Peraturan Presiden (Perpres) Nomor 62 Tahun 2013 tentang Badan Pengelola Penurunan Gas Emisi Rumah Kaca dari Deforestasi, Degradasi Hutan dan Lahan Gambut atau REDD+. Badan ini dianggap tidak bergigi dan hanya sebagai macan kertas karena hanya memiliki fungsi koordinasi, sinkronisasi dan lain-lain. Namun, sebagian mengatakan Perpres itu […]

August 12, 2013

Interactive web app lets users map forest carbon emissions activities

A new online portal for monitoring, reporting and verifying (MRV) carbon emissions allows researchers and practitioners to better manage forest inventories, its creators say. The Forest Carbon Database (FCDB) can be used to share measurements of carbon pools — reservoirs with the capacity to store and release carbon, the chemical basis of all known life […]