JAKARTA -- President Joko Widodo on Monday announced the location of Indonesia's new capital in East Kalimantan Province, the Indonesian part of Borneo island. He cited the need to ease the burden on ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's West Kalimantan Provincial Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) revealed that from January 1 to August 30, 2024, land and forest fires have burned an area of 13,057.7 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has issued a warning about the continued high risk of forest and land fires (karhutla) on the islands of Sumatra, Java, and parts of ...

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s planned new capital in eastern Kalimantan will be named Nusantara, said National Development Planning Minister Suharso Monoarfa on Monday (Jan 17). The name Nusantara, meaning ...

JAKARTA: A rescue team on Wednesday (Sept 3) reached the site of a helicopter crash on Kalimantan, recovering one body, authorities said. Seven people remain unaccounted for. The discovery in the ...

Indonesia's president announced Monday that the country's capital will move from overcrowded, sinking and polluted Jakarta to a site in sparsely populated East Kalimantan province on Borneo island, ...

An Indonesian helicopter, carrying eight passengers including an Indian national, Santha Kumar, crashed in a mountainous region after emitting white smoke. Contact was lost on Monday morning. A ...

Dayak Tombun people in Central Kalimantan want President Jokowi to officialize their rights to the land they spent years mapping with NGO assistance. Jokowi has already said he backs a stalled ...

(New York, February 28, 2001) The violence in Sampit, Central Kalimantan, started on the night of February 17-18 when a Dayak house was burned down. Rumor spread that an ethnic Madurese was ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has therefore downgraded the status of the orangutan from “endangered” to “critically endangered”. Most people nowadays feel great sympathy ...