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View all search resultsEnvironment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said the government had sealed off land owned by three Malaysian palm oil companies and one Singaporean company, blaming them for causing land and forest fires in Riau and West Kalimantan.
Kalimantan on the island of Borneo has rich culinary traditions. In West Kalimantan, in Lanjak village of Batang Lupar subdistrict, Kapuas Hulu regency, a traditional food festival will be held from Sept. 14 to 15.
From Jakarta, he said, the BNPB had deployed 9,000 joint personnel from the Indonesian Military and the National Police to six regions, namely Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan and South Kalimantan, to prevent any slash and burn practices.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency's secretary-general has said that the agency would send 1,000 military personnel and 205 police officers to villages in Riau, West Kalimantan and Jambi, provinces that are vulnerable to forest fires.
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