A total of 35 residents are still declared missing in a landslide that crashed into an Indonesian village in Riau province’s Natuna district on March 6, according to head of the country’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Lieutenant General Suharyanto.
Indonesia will remove permission for the entry of nationals from 19 countries that do not open their doors to Indonesian tourists, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, has said.
Governor of Indonesia’s Riau Islands Ansar Ahmad said the “travel bubble” scheme with Singapore, initially slated for October 2021, has been cancelled following a surge in COVID-19 cases in the nearby city-state.
Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency (BNN) on May 5 said it has seized a total of 581.31 kg of crystal methamphetamine from three international syndicates and arrested seven suspects.
Indonesia has started cloud seeding to induce rain as the archipelago moves to head off annual forest fires blamed for blanketing swathes of Southeast Asia in toxic haze.
The Indonesian Coordinating Economy Ministry said on December 23 that the country will build two special economic zones on Batam island, Riau province, next year while it awaits revisions to the free trade and port zone regulation (KPBPB).
Many schools on Indonesia’s Borneo and Sumatra islands on September 16 were closed due to choking smoke from forest fires while the country has recorded thousands of respiratory infection cases.
An airport on Sumatra island and schools in some provinces of Indonesia were forced to close on September 13 by smoke from forest fires in the country.
As many as 39,277 residents in Riau province in Sumatra Island, Indonesia, have suffered from respiratory problems due to the escalating smoke haze caused by forest fires, according to head of the provincial Health Office Mimi Nazir.
The forest fire task force of Indonesia’s Riau province has deployed four helicopters to douse the forest fires raging across the southern part of the province on Sumatra Island.
The elite counterterrorism squad Densus 88 of Indonesia’s National Police has foiled a bombing plot in a raid on a university campus in Pekanbaru city of Riau province, according to local police.
Indonesian police shot dead three men who attacked the headquarters of the Riau province police on Sumatra island on May 16. A policeman was also killed in the attack.
The Maritime Festival of Riau Islands opened on October 20 Tanjung Pinang city of Indonesia’s Riau Islands province to promote images of its destinations and attract investment.
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