About 4,000 residents from Serui Laut, Pasir Putih and Pasir Hitam villages in Yapen Islands regency still lack access to clean water, a Papuan council member said. “Clean water is an urgent need for people in the three villages. Serui Laut community (people who live by the sea) get the water from Pasir Hitam village which […]
About 300,000 wild animals, which equals 17 percent of the total world animals are predicted to inhabit Indonesian islands although the country only makes up about 1.3 percent of the world’s land. In total, Indonesia has 515 species of mammals and more than 1539 species of birds. [Continue reading on Tempo]
Fires that occured in the field owned by PT. Kalista Alam at the region of Suaka Bahong, sub-district Darul Makmur, Nagan Raya District, Aceh, has caused suffering to the surrounding environment. It was submitted by a forest fire expert, Bambang Hero Saharjo on criminal proceedings of case 131/Pid.B/2013/PN MBO at the District Court of Meulaboh, Tuesday […]
The intensity of sand excavations at Lampu Satu Beach and surrounding areas has resulted sea abrasion, but when many houses of local community were affected by seawater, some people blamed it on Mbuti people. [Continue reading on Tabloid Jubi]
Gunung Kidul Regional Government eyes for investments in tourism area while awaiting geopark status confirmation from UNESCO. “We have begun to discuss the investment discourse, maintaining its geopark directives,” said the Chief of Gunung Kidul Regional Development Planning Agency Syarif Armunanto. [Continue reading on Tempo]
Pemerintah Provinsi (Pemprov) Riau diminta untuk menetapkan status darurat kabut asap Kebakaran Hutan dan Lahan (Karhutla). Kebijakan ini dilakukan guna mempercepat penanganan bencana ekologis yang semakin parah melanda Provinsi Riau.
Charles Tawaru, Greenpeace campaigner for Papua forests said in the last two years many new concessions, particularly industrial plantation forests (HTI) and palm oil plantations, had been issued. Such plantations encroaches natural forest areas. [Continue reading on Tabloid Jubi]
Giam Siak Kecil and Bukit Batu biosphere reserve forests in Bengkalis Regency, Riau have become endangered due to forest fires that occur over the last two weeks. “[The fires] have burnt around 1,000 hectares and they keep spreading,” Bengkalis Police chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner Andry Wibowo told Tempo on Thursday, February 20, 2014. [Continue reading on Tempo]
The Environment Health Engineering and Disease Control of the Ministry of Health is conducting air quality measuring on several spots in Kediri, East Java which is affected by Mount Kelud’s volcanic dust after the eruption. The air quality is believed to be harmful for the refugees, especially for those who wear no masks. [Read full […]
Another Sumatran Elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) was found dead in Riau. The 30-year-old giant animal was found by the residents of Tasik Serai Village, Bengkalis Regency in the concession area of industrial forest of PT Arara Abadi.
