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WALHI and ICEL will provide suggestion on environment and natural resources issues to General Election Commission or KPU for the second round of the 2019 Presidential Debate.
A research on lawmakers’ track records in relation to environmental bills shows that 12 out of 26 members agree with the Indigenous Peoples Bill.
Amid the 2019 Presidential Election campaigns, Indonesia’s green watchdog had reported an illegal land opening in protected peatlands in Pangkalan Bun of Kotawaringin Lama district, Central Kalimantan.
Ministry of Environment and Forestry promotes SILIN to improve natural forests productivity and sustainable natural resources.
Following East Nusa Tenggara Governor’s request to close Komodo National Park for one year, Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya, said that the ministry is still discussing on the matter with the provincial government.
“Every citizen must take responsible on cleanliness in their houses or surrounding the house. If not, then people will just keep on littering,” said Vice President Jusuf Kalla on his speech at the clean city award.
Surabaya picked up the highest clean city award, dubbed as Adipura Kencana, on Monday’s ceremony in Jakarta, by Ministry of Environment and Forestry.
Ministry of Environment and Forestry awarded 146 districts and cities for their efforts on environmental policies in Jakarta.
Following the launch on August 2018, the use of organic fuel, dubbed as Biodiesel 20 is reported to have poor performance on improving oil palm farmers welfare.
Local wisdom can be a reference for disaster mitigation education as adapted from local characteristics and renewed in accordance to latest disaster events. Unfortunately, not all local wisdom are known to local people.
Following many casualties due to poor mitigation efforts, experts are pushing the government to audit the spatial planning law.
Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) declares current atmosphere condition indicates increase of weather pressure in Asia mainlands. In addition, potential cyclone spotted in northern part of Indonesia.
Indonesian Institute for Sciences introduces an alternative technology to detect tsunami, called Laser Tsunami Sensor, replacing the buoy system.