Food Estate Project: New Ecological Disaster Brewing in Kalimantan

... Jakarta. Facing an impending food crisis in the face of the ... past 23 years, fire and haze in the dry season and ... national emissions. Eighty percent of Indonesia's emission reduction efforts focus ... the victims of forest fire haze and prevents forest and peatland ...

Asean's 50th Anniversary: Can the Bloc Sustain Strong Bargaining Power in the Years to Come?

... was first comprised of only Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, ... mitigate the yearly transboundary haze that engulfs large swaths ... that key member states like Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and ... island-building. "The midlife crisis also stems from Asean' ...

RAPP Launches 2017 Fire-Free Village Program Ahead of Dry Season

... Indonesia to more effectively manage its forest fire crisis after clouds of haze ... economic losses related to that crisis to be $16 billion. Nine ...

Taming the Flame: Local Advocates Campaign for Fire-Free Village

... caused by the toxic haze that blanketed his village ... also developed an integrated haze monitoring system that combines ... improving public facilities. Under Indonesia's Environmental Law, land ... and-burn cultivation. Indonesia's fire and haze crisis in 2015 was ...

Leuser Still Exploited by Palm Oil Companies Despite Moratorium: NGO

... to avoid repeating the 2015 haze crisis and to conserve the critically ... reduce Indonesia's carbon footprint, the severity of the annual haze crisis and ...

Better Policies Equal Fewer Forest Fires: World Resources Institute

... . While last year's haze crisis has been described as the ... biggest population group in Indonesia, from clearing land by ... to combat wildfires in Indonesia, they establish firefighting units ... organization observed, however, that Indonesia needs to invest in ...

Haze Causes More Than One Hundred Thousand Premature Deaths in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore: Study

... last year caused by haze from wildfires in Indonesia's Sumatra and ... be considered a crime," Greenpeace Indonesia forest campaigner Yuyun Indradi said ... environmental losses from the 2015 haze crisis amounted to more than $16 ...

National Police, KPK Team Up With Environment Ministry to End Illegal Forest Fires

Jakarta. As Indonesia enters the forest fire and haze season, the Ministry of ... preventing the environmental and diplomatic crisis which tends to follow. “The ... wake of 2013's historic haze crisis. “The commission considers the forest ...

Singapore Netizens Take to Twitter After Haze Blankets City

... assistance to Indonesia ahead of this year's haze crisis, Singapore's ... the annual health and environmental crisis under the hashtag #SGHaze, ... dir="ltr">The haze is back. Thank you Indonesia for the clean ... of the year to thank Indonesia for 11 months of ...

Indonesia's Sampoerna Agro Fined Record Sum for 2014 Forest Fires

... According to a spokesman at Indonesia's environment ministry, the ... of law enforcement by Indonesia could help deter companies ... plantations, cause an annual "haze" crisis that blankets large parts of ... area of tropical forests, Indonesia has been criticized by ...