The extreme weather caused by tropical cyclone Senyar at the end of last November is suspected to have claimed many lives at ...

Upon his inauguration as governor of Riau in early 2019, Syamsuar promised to “protect the dignity of Indonesia” by ensuring that the vast Sumatran province, home to rivers, forests, peatlands and oil ...

he Riau Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BBKSDA) has revealed that the death of an 18-month-old Sumatran elephant named ...

The launch of the GREEN for Riau initiative, a collaboration between the Riau Provincial Government, the UK, and UN-REDD to support the Green Riau vision through concrete environmental and climate ...

hile its northern neighbors reel from natural disasters amplified by deforestation, the province of Riau remains afflicted by ...

The police in Riau, Indonesia’s top palm oil-producing province and one of the hardest-hit by last year’s disastrous forest and peatland fires, closed cases against 15 plantation firms that the ...

Developers are moving fast to meet Singapore’s clean energy needs by establishing overseas solar-plus-storage plants, with a strong focus on facilities in neighboring Indonesia. Singaporean clean ...

JAKARTA - An Indonesian province is readying a fleet of cloud-seeding and water-bombing aircraft to avert a recurrence of last year's outbreak of forest and land fires as well as haze after several ...

The parliament of Indonesia on Monday finally agreed to ratify the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution – almost 12 years since the treaty was first ...

Indonesian Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno (left) at the opening of a two-day golf tournament at a Batam country club on Jun 29, 2024. (Photo: Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and ...

KUANTAN SINGINGI, Indonesia: Indonesian Rayyan Arkan Dhika has become a global internet sensation for his cool “aura farming” moves perched at the tip of a traditional racing boat. The 11-year-old ...

Almost every year vast swaths of Southeast Asia are covered in toxic haze, which causes air quality to reach hazardous levels and creates major health, environmental and economic problems. Recorded ...