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The 1997 group of forest fires in Indonesia that lasted well into 1998 were probably among the two or three, if not the largest, forest fires group in the last two centuries of recorded history. In the middle of 1997 forest fires burning in Indonesia began to affect neighbouring countries, spreading thick clouds of smoke and haze to Malaysia ...
The 2015 Southeast Asian haze was an air pollution crisis affecting several countries in Southeast Asia, including Brunei, Indonesia (especially its islands of Sumatra and Borneo), Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines.
Pertamina's oil storage depot at Plumpang is often considered the most important fuel depot in Indonesia, having been established in 1974 and having a capacity of nearly 300 million liters of fuel. By itself, the depot handles around 20 percent of the country's fuel supply, primarily serving the Greater Jakarta area.
In 1989, Sukanto Tanoto started a pulp mill under the name of PT Inti Indorayon Utama, which was built at a small village Porsea nearby Lake Toba of North Sumatra.The mill however did not run smoothly with the local people, who argued that it had polluted the area, performed major deforestation and injustice land grabbing.
2002 postal stamp of Indonesia "save mangrove forests". In the coastal commercial sector, for instance, the livelihood of fishing people and those engaged in allied activities—roughly 5.6 million people—began to be imperiled in the late 1970s by declining fish stocks brought about by the contamination of coastal waters.
Wildfire burning in the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, United States, in 2020.The Mangum Fire burned more than 70,000 acres (280 km 2) of forest.. A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned and uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation.
March 18 – Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture assured that a viral video claiming "fake eggs" in Indonesia was a hoax. [37] March 19 – Fierce backlash after Prabowo Subianto made a speech of Indonesia breaking apart in 2030. [38] March 20 – A propeller aircraft crashed while performing an aerobatic show in Cilacap. The sole occupant of ...
The Glodok Plaza building is one of the oldest shopping centers in Indonesia. Formerly a colonial fort and prison, it was converted into a six-story shopping center in 1977 and became an electronics trading center. The building underwent renovations in 2001 in which two levels were added two levels. [3]