Environment

Firms given two years to come clean

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
The government has warned companies operating without environmental standards to start complying with environmental regulations, giving them a two-year grace period before it starts revoking busine

Asia-Pacific countries discuss climate change in Bali

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Asia-Pacific countries will discuss the climate change issue at an Asia Pacifik Global on Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) in Sanur, Bali.

Families plant adopted trees for better environment and future

Monday, March 8th, 2010
Twenty families from social organization Brave Bright Behaviour and Beautiful (B4) drove to Cibodas in Bogor, West Java, on Saturday, to plant adopted trees, in the hopes of producing fresher air f

Elephants destroy houses in Riau

Sunday, March 7th, 2010
A number of wild elephants destroyed three houses in Petani village, Mandau sub-district, Bengkalis, on Thursday and Friday, local risidents said.

Pondok Indah residents to launch local green map

Friday, March 5th, 2010
A community group in Pondok Indah, South Jakarta, said it would launch the area’s first ever green map next Sunday, detailing the location of parks and other green sites within the affluent resid

No revision to environmentlaw: Ministry

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
The Environment Ministry has insisted that it would not delay the implementation of the 2009 Environment Law as it did not believe it would hamper the mining of the country’s rich natural resourc

Environment ministers find collective voice again

Saturday, February 27th, 2010
UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner is optimistic about the results of the just concluded Bali environment ministers` meeting here as the conference had enabled them to find a collective voice again after the "great frustrations" in Copenhagen.

Trade ministry keeping eye on children`s toys

Saturday, February 27th, 2010
The trade ministry is keeping an eye on children`s toys marketed in the country to protect consumers from possible dangerous substance in the products, an official said here on Friday.