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South Kalimantan forms team to tackle fires at three priority sites

Banjarbaru, Aug. 24 -- South Kalimantan has formed a special team to accelerate responses to forest and land fires at three priority locations in Banjarbaru, Deputy Coordinating Minister for Food Affa... Read More


BNPB airlifts 75-year-old quake survivor from remote island

Jakarta, Aug. 24 -- Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) facilitated a medical air evacuation for a 75-year-old man named Yohanis Riba, injured by collapsing debris during a 7.7-magn... Read More


Police hold trauma-relief session for quake-hit children in NTT

Jakarta, Aug. 24 -- Indonesian police search-and-rescue personnel held a trauma-relief session on Sunday (August 23) for children affected by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake at an evacuation center in Mang... Read More


NTT quake: BNPB airlifts relief supplies to Sikka's outermost island

Jakarta, Aug. 24 -- Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) deployed additional relief supplies Sunday (August 23) to earthquake-hit residents on Sukun, an outermost island in Sikka Dis... Read More


East Nusa Tenggara quake death toll rises to 100

Jakarta, Aug. 24 -- The death toll from a magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province on Aug. 15 has risen to 100, official agencies confirmed Monday. "Fataliti... Read More


Indonesian lawmakers back crackdown on forest fire masterminds

Jakarta, Aug. 24 -- The Indonesian police's pledge to prosecute not only field operators but also masterminds and financiers behind forest and land fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra has won support from... Read More


Four killed, one injured in house fire in South Jakarta

Jakarta, Aug. 24 -- A house fire in Menteng Dalam, South Jakarta, killed four people and injured one early Monday, the South Jakarta Fire and Rescue Agency said. "Four people died and one was injured... Read More


Jakarta LRT Kelapa Gading-Manggarai line complete, trial runs underway

Jakarta, Aug. 24 -- Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung on Monday confirmed the 100 percent completion of the Kelapa Gading-Manggarai section of Jakarta LRT, with President Prabowo Subianto invited to inau... Read More


South Kalimantan firms distribute 20,000 masks amid wildfires

Indonesia, Aug. 24 -- South Kalimantan's Environment Agency and the local Indonesian Palm Oil Association (GAPKI) distributed 20,000 masks to residents in order to mitigate the health effects caused b... Read More


Six military planes with disaster aid sent NTT, Kalimantan: govt

Jakarta, Aug. 24 -- The Indonesian government sent six Air Force planes on Monday carrying food supplies and firefighting equipment to disaster-hit areas in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and Kalimantan, Ca... Read More