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Jakarta 4 months ago

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Small farmers bring Jakarta urban farming to life

Jakarta has designated idle plots of land, including some under the Bekasi-Cawang-Kampung Melayu (Becakayu) toll road in East Jakarta, as urban farming sites in an effort to achieve food security and expand green area coverage in the city.

Environment 6 years ago

Fires in Indonesia burn 1.6m ha of land, mostly former forests: Satellite data

Satellite images show that 76 percent of fires in 2019 burned idle land that was forest several years ago. Cycles of repeated burns have converted the land into unproductive, degraded scrubland.

Business 8 years ago

PGGS told to turn 3,700 ha idle land into salt farm: Minister

The government is to issue an order to a company controling 3,700 hectares of idle land in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) to turn the property into a salt production facility, said Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Sofyan Djalil said on Monday

Business 9 years ago

Government slows plan to impose taxes for idle land

Economic Coordinating Minister Darmin Nasution has said that the government’s plan to impose progressive taxes for idle land will not be implemented in the near future as relevant officials are still studying the matter.

Business 9 years ago

Government to issue new package on agrarian reform

The government is preparing a new economic package to alleviate poverty and reduce economic and social disparity through agrarian reform, head of Presidential Staff Teten Masduki has said.

Business 9 years ago

Sofyan Djalil, Sri Mulyani to discuss taxes for idle land

Agrarian and Spatial Minister Sofyan Djalil and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati will soon discuss regulations for the progressive taxes to be imposed on idle land to make the land more productive that were announced previously.