#FOREST FIRES

The Terra and Aqua Satellites, on Tuesday, at 6 a.m. local time, detected 152 hotspots on Sumatra Island, including 75 in Riau Province, according to the Pekanbaru meteorology, climatology and ...

Some 700 people in Pekanbaru, Riau Province, currently suffer from respiratory illness as haze from forest fires has shrouded the city over the last several days. The authorities had warned local ...

Several children attending the Islam Akramunnas Kindergarten in Pekanbaru, Riau Province, had no option but to wear face masks as haze, arising from forest and bush fires, hung over the city since ...

The Pekanbaru Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) detected 85 hotspots, indicating potential occurrences of bush and forest fires, in several parts of Sumatra Island on Friday ...

District Head of East Kotawaringin, Central Kalimantan, Supian Hadi affirmed that land fires that had arisen in his area were partly suspected of being deliberately started by people, who engage in ...

The Kotawaringin Timur Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) needs a helitanker to back its efforts to extinguish wildfires ravaging more than 60 hectares of land in Bagendang Hilir Village, Central ...

A total of 154 hotspots indicating forest and plantation fires were detected across Sumatra Island on Thursday. The number ...

The Indonesian Police have been tackling 262 cases of forest and plantation fires on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan so far."Up to October 21, 2015, the ...

The Riau health office has recorded that 25,524 people have fallen ill due to the haze as the air quality has reached unhealthy levels in the ...

The Terra and Aqua Satellites detected 148 hotspots across Sumatra Island, including 45 in Riau Province on Tuesday morning."Based on data captured by the Terra and ...