REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PEKANBARU -- Indonesia's Riau Province, in collaboration with the Environment and Forestry Ministry, will immediately set up a special team to patrol areas prone to fires, in anticipation of the upcoming dry season, an official has said.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) installed Nazir Foead, former conservation director at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), as head of the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) on January 20.
The agency, which has been set up based on Presidential Regulation Number 1 of 2016, is chiefly tasked with preventing forest fires that particularly occur in peatlands and to restore such areas gutted by forest fires, particularly on Sumatra and Kalimantan Islands.
Jakarta. President Joko Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla on Wednesday inaugurated Nazir Foead, conservation director at the World Wildlife Fund, as head of the newly established Peat Restoration Agency, known as BRG.
“To me, Nazir Foead has the competencies and experiences in restoring the forests and peat lands, especially the skills to coordinate with the [related] ministries, [local] agencies and international agency networks,” Joko said ahead of the inauguration last week.
The BRG is tasked with restoring peat lands in Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, Papua and across all of Kalimantan which have been affected by last year's disastrous forest and land fires. Hundreds of thousands of hectares of forests and peat lands were destroyed.
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), has predicted that precipitation is due to increase substantially at the end of January 2016.
"The La Nina weather pattern is expected to impact the rate of precipitation - especially so around the south of the equator," said the Head of BMKG's Public Information Department, through a press release on Monday, January 25, 2016.
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The government is set to draft a biodiversity law to protect wildlife in Indonesia. Data from the Indonesian Science Institute (LIPI) in 2014 reveals that Indonesia boats more than 47,000 species of plants and animals.
“However, only 236 of them are protected,” Indra Exploitasia Semiawan, head of Genetic Resources Sub-directorate at the Environment and Forestry Ministry, said during a discussion of biodiversity conservation draft bill exports held in Jakarta on Tuesday, January 12, 2016.
Source: http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2016/01/13/206735562/Govt-Drafts-Biodiversity-Law
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