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A police officer sprays water in an attempt to extinguish a fire that razes through a peatland field in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, July 20, 2025. -- AP Photo/Muhammad Hatta JAKARTA ...

TEMPO.CO, Pekanbaru - Fire Hotspots that potentially trigger forest and peat land fires in a number of areas in Sumatra are now getting widespread. The number of hot spots has now risen to 674 hot ...

The Harapan forest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra is teeming with frog species, one of which was just described last year. These amphibians are threatened by a coal-trucking road that the ...

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JAKARTA (Bernama): At least seven hectares of land were scorched by forest and land fires across Indonesia’s Sumatra Island over the weekend, with blazes reported in West Sumatra and Aceh provinces, ...

TEMPO.CO, Pekanbaru - The Pekanbaru Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said Tera and Aqua satellites detected 590 hotspots in several areas in Sumatra. The number of hotspots jumped ...

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