Jakarta, Ekuatorial – After finally ratified cross-border haze agreement, expert said government should be working on implementation rather than caught up in more bureaucracy to tackle forest fires in Indonesia. Indonesia had officially ratified the ASEAN agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution after the House of Representatives (DPR) passed the bill on Tuesday (16/9). It took […]
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Indonesia ratified cross-border haze pollution agreement
Jakarta – Ekuatorial. The Indonesian House of Representatives finally agreed to pass cross-border haze agreement bill on Tuesday (16/9) marking a new phase to deal with the country’s yearly forest and land fires. In 2002, Indonesia along with other nine countries signed the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. However, it […]
40 hectares peats burned down in Sebangau National Park
Palangka Raya, Ekuatorial – Nearly forty hectares of areas burned down at Sebangau National Park in Central Kalimantan, an official said on Tuesday (16/9). Nandang Prihadi, Head of Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Agency, said that fires ravaging Bangah village, Pulang Pisau sub district, were the hardest to extinguish even with the help of forest fires […]
Government speed up forest management implementation
Jakarta, Ekuatorial – With one month left in office, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono administration is speeding up its forest management efforts which include permits issuance, boundaries settlement, and land ownerships. These are several major themes will be discussed in the two days meeting set up by President’s Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight (UKP4) […]
Forest fires take its toll on human health in Central Kalimantan
Palangka Raya, Ekuatorial – Thick smog resulted from extensive forest fires has increased numbers of patients with acute respiratory infections in Central Kalimantan, said a senior official recently. Endang Sri Lestari Pujiastuti, Head of Health Control Agency of Central Kalimantan, said that there were already 56 patients with acute respiratory infections in Palangka Raya from […]
Indonesian scientists developed carbon storage technology
Bogor, Ekuatorial – Indonesian scientists were testing out technology to absorb carbon dioxide back into the earth as part of climate change mitigation programs, said a senior scientist, on Thursday, in Bogor. Scientists of Geotechnology Research Center, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), have been testing carbonation technology to absorb carbon dioxide at limestone mound in […]
South Barito appointed as customary forest mapping pilot project
Jakarta, Ekuatorial – South Barito of Central Kalimantan has been appointed as the first pilot project for forest recognition project by third party aimed to manage the province’s overlapping permit issuance, said a member of government’s office, in Jakarta, last month. The Third Party Recognition and Verification Program, locally shorten as PPH, is conducted by […]