Jakarta, June 11 -- The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has launched a digital application where people can report environmentally damaging activities, including illegal deforestation.

"Through the inaRISK Personal application, the public can report cases of deforestation," a disaster analyst from the BNPB's Risk Mapping and Evaluation Directorate, Afif Alfian, said at a dialogue on Wednesday.

He informed that the application was developed by the BNPB in collaboration with the ministries of energy and mineral resources, public works, and housing and settlements; the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency; and other institutions engaged in disaster mitigation.

The app aims to draw public participation in environmenta...