The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has instructed all relevant ministries, government institutions, local disaster mitigation agencies and the Karo regency administration in North Sumatra to prepare for a worst-case scenario following an increase in Mount Sinabung’s volcanic activity during the past week. The worst-case scenario would be applied if the evacuation zone reaches between 7.5 […]
The Public Alliance for Wendit Forest, along with local residents and members of Walhi East Java, waged a protest against Public Company Perhutani, for cutting down trees at Wendit tourism park, Malang. They claimed the activity has caused the population of long-tailed monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) to drop from 300 to 150, according to the protest coordinator, Teguh Prijatmono.Teguh added that the […]
Karo residents in North Sumatra received an unpleasant surprise on the first day of the year when Mount Sinabung spewed 3 kilometers of volcanic ash on Wednesday noon. An official at the Sinabung monitoring post, Ahmad Nabawi, said a stronger volcanic ash discharge could occur as the volcano continued to generate huge volumes of lava.
Aceh Police chief Herman Effendi said on Tuesday that the case file for peat destruction in Southwest Aceh by PT Dua Perkasa Lestari complete. The police would hand over all evidence to the prosecutor’s office soon.
Aceh legislative denies that Leuser Ecosystem Zone (KEL) and Mount Leuser National Park has been removed from the spatial layout plan, saying it was now under an integral part of forest in Aceh. “The concept is forests of Aceh,” said Adnan Beuransyah, head of Commision A in Aceh Legislative.
Hundreds of activists and people came together on Monday to protest against a provincial qanun (bylaw) on Aceh spatial layout plan. It removed Leuser Ecosystem Zone (KEL) and does not include carbon-rich Rawa Tripa as a conservation area.
Aceh House of Representative has decided that Lembaga Wali Nanggroe will manage the forest. The forest areas, according to the latest spatial layout plan, include 2,938,579.83 hectares protected forest and 2,949,506.83 for cultivation.
In Kalumpang, West Sulawesi, a person may be allowed to apply for a motorcycle ownership credit after planting a tree. Local residents rushed to apply for the credit after attending a familiarization event of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) Program.
The Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) forecast the rainfall in Jakarta in the following week will still be varied. The rainfall intensity started from light, medium, to heavy.
Landslides and erosions are threatening the access to Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, East Java, as rain keeps on drenching the international tourism site.
