President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo highlighted the global food crisis at the opening of the national meeting of the government internal supervisory today, June 14, 2022. He emphasized that the crisis could be turned into an opportunity. "Because we have large lands that many have not been utilized," the...
Survey: 90 Percent of Young Respondents Are Worried about the Impact of the Climate Crisis
Source: Change.org Date: 25 September 2020 Water Crisis, Food Crisis, and Spread of Disease are the impacts of greatest concern Coinciding with the Global Climate Strike action which will be held simultaneously in many countries in the world, including Indonesia on September 25, 2020, to ...
In Indonesia’s new rice plan, experts see the blueprint of an epic past failure
Source: MongabayDate: 19 May 2020 The Indonesian government plans to establish 900,000 hectares (2.2 million acres) of rice fields in the peatlands of Borneo, in what experts say is a worrying repeat of a near-identical project in the 1990s that failed.The earlier mega rice project (MRP) resulted in...
Jokowi warns of harsher dry season in Indonesia's 30-percent regions
Source: ANTARA NewsDate: 5 May 2020 Jakarta - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has given directives to his aides to be better prepared as a precautionary measure against a "drier than normal" dry season in 30 percent of Indonesia's regions in 2020. During a virtual limited meeting from the Merdek...