News Indonesia Riau: Inconvenienced Jakartans: Wake up to far-flung grievances
“Putri Riau” (Riau daughter) tweeted with smiling and laughing ... where residents are bracing for life in foul smelling smog again. Recently six provinces in Indonesia have declared an emergency, ...
News Indonesia Riau: Pekanbaru engulfed in smog as more than 135 hot spots detected in Sumatra
PEKANBARU, Riau: More than 135 hot spots were detected in Sumatra on Tuesday (Jul 30) due to peat fire, as Pekanbaru, the provincial capital of Riau was enveloped in a thick veil of haze. Data from ...
News Indonesia Riau: Indonesia sends 7 containers of plastic waste back to France, Hong Kong
BATAM, Indonesia — The Batam Customs Office in Riau Islands has sent seven containers containing hazardous and toxic waste owned by importing company PT Arya Wiraraja Plastinindo on their way ...
News Indonesia Riau: Use Batam and Bintan islands to enter Indonesian market, Johor SMEs told
JOHOR BARU: Johor-based small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can benefit from the developments taking place on Batam and Bintan islands off Indonesia’s Riau archipelago. South Johor SME adviser Teh Kee ...
News Indonesia Riau: Indonesia urges Singapore to stop illegal shipments of lobster larvae: report
estimated to be worth 17 billion rupiah (S$1.7 million), from Indonesia to Vietnam through Singapore. The men, who are suspected members of a syndicate, were arrested separately in Jambi and Batam in ...
News Indonesia Riau: Tourist arrivals through airports decline by 11.37 percent yoy in May
The BPS showed a decline in tourist arrivals was recorded almost at all airports across the country, with the sharpest decline of 45.52 percent occurring at the Husein Sastranegara International Airport in Bandung, West Java.
News Indonesia Riau: Gruesome moment dead farmer’s remains are cut out of a crocodile’s stomach by Indonesian villagers
The shocking extraction occurred in northwestern Indonesia's Riau Province after a farmer known as Wartoyo went missing. Locals then began searching for him along the Lakar River in Siak, where he had ...
News Indonesia Riau: Indonesia sends more toxic waste, trash back to US, Europe, Australia
Previously, officials from the Batam Customs Office, Batam the Environment Agency and the Environment and Forestry Ministry, accompanied by Batam Mayor Muhammad Rudi, unloaded dozens of containers ...
News Indonesia Riau: Indonesia detains Vietnamese fishermen after high seas clash
Indonesia's navy said that the Vietnamese coastguard rammed one of its vessels off the coast of Borneo as it moved to intercept a boat suspected of fishing illegally in its waters. The navy ...
News Indonesia Riau: In Indonesia, a paper giant shuffles a litany of land conflicts
Drainage canals bisect a peatland planted with acacia trees in Indonesia’s Riau province. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Some of the cases documented by the activists are still ongoing.
News Indonesia Riau: Indonesia bribery cases weigh on Jokowi's reform plans
Indonesia's anti-graft agency ... agreed to award a contract to build a 600 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Riau Province to a private consortium in exchange for a kickback of 4.75 billion ...
News Indonesia Riau: Sinking captured fishing boats is deterrent, not retaliation, Indonesia says after South China Sea clash with Vietnam
“It’s not retaliation,” Susi said on Tuesday after visiting sites in Pontianak in West Kalimantan and Batam in the Riau Islands where several boats ... for protecting the North Natuna Sea, a name ...
