Bali, Ekuatorial – The Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries noted, Indonesia has extensive coral reefs about 51.000 km2 or 18% of the total area of the coral reefs in the world. Unfortunately during the last 50 years, the decline in the quality of Indonesia’s coral reefs has increased from 10% to 50% based on […]
Police foiled an alleged attempt to smuggle rare green turtles from Bali’s mainland to nearby Serangan Island on Tuesday — the latest arrest in a string of turtle smuggling busts to hit the popular tourist destination, as reported by Antara News. A 56-year-old man, identified as Sangkalan, was arrested early this morning after police officers […]
Bali experienced a three-hour total blackout on Saturday evening following a technical issue on one of the extra-high voltage power lines (SUTT) in the Banyuwangi grid in East Java. This story also appeared in Submitted news The Bali office of state electricity company (PLN) reported that the SUTT unit, located in Situbondo, near Banyuwangi, was […]
Jakarta Capital City will soon be equipped with 17 artificial islands that stretches along the Bay of Jakarta as far as 32 km. The existence of this project will require a lot of soil and sand material to build a new island to a total of 5,100 hectares. Head of Sub Directorate of the Directorate […]
Hundreds of hectares of rice fields in Cirebon regency, West Java, are at risk of harvest failure due to an invasion of rodents and insects. This story also appeared in Submitted news “Attacks by pests have taken place in the past month. Hundreds of hectares of rice fields have been severely damaged and are at […]
The Assistant III Asset and Financial Section of Makassar Administration, Burhanuddin, said that a Central Trash Bank will be set up this year. The trash banks will be set up in 78 points in Makassar and the central bank will be located in Toddopuli market region which is also a landfill for non-organic trashes. “We […]
Ministry of Public Works began doing construction of Batam Botanical Garden, by building several vital projects there in 2014, said Head of Batam City Planning Gintoyono in Batam Riau Islands, on Wednesday (2/7). In the first stage, the Ministry of Public Works will do the work in 18 hectares of land of the total development […]
Indonesian energy observers have expressed skepticism over the two presidential hopefuls’ energy platforms, expecting that the strong nationalistic tone will remain mere campaign talk to sway voters. This story also appeared in Submitted news “Both of them claim to be nationalists, but more for the sake of the presidential election,” Pri Agung Rakhmanto, executive director […]
Environmentalists are wary of a setback in Indonesia’s climate change program, with neither of the two presidential contenders seen to show environmental commitment at least as that of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. This story also appeared in Submitted news “It’s a bleak future,” said Muhammad Teguh Surya, forest political campaigner at Greenpeace Southeast Asia. “SBY […]
Seven miners were killed and five were unaccounted for following a landslide that occurred at a traditional gold mining site in Baya Biru, Paniai regency, Papua, on Tuesday at around 11 p.m. local time. Two other miners survived the incident. This story also appeared in Submitted news “The incident took place in the middle of […]
