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As forest fires resume their spread in Indonesia, the head of the United Nations Environment Programme is planning a trip to the region to explore the agency's possible role in coping with the calamity. Indonesia's forest fires threaten the return of…

The haze/smog that choked much of south east Asia cleared with the belated arrival of the monsoon. The Indonesian Red Cross (Palang Merah Indonesia) has launched a health education campaign and is distributing leaflets and posters on preventive measures…

In Indonesia, soldiers and water-bombing aircraft are battling fresh outbreaks of forest fires About 180-hotspots have been reported in East Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo and parts of Riau province in Sumatra Forestry officials say the current problem has been…

AP Focus, Issue 13, Jan 98 Nobody knows the full scale of the famine yet. The population of lrian Jaya is scattered all over the province - the eastern-most of Indonesia - in thousands of small villages and settlements, which…

The Indonesian province of Irian Jaya is suffering a drought of a magnitude never before experienced. Malnutrition is high, particularly among children, and the mortality rate is soaring. The ICRC and the Indonesian Red Cross Society (PMI) have launched…

Jakarta, January 27, 1998 -- Indonesia, an archipelago made up of 17,000 islands, is suffering from the worst El Niño-related drought in 50 years. Combine this with the recent and severe downturn in the Indonesian economy, and the result…

Reports from Indonesia say hundreds of new fires have broken out, with more are expected because of the continuing drought. The reports have rekindled fears of the return of the smog that blanketed much of Southeast Asia last year. The Antara…

The International Monetary Fund says Indonesia was unable to use a special reforestation fund to help cope with massive forest fires last year. The I-M-F managing director, Michel Camdessus, says this was because the money had been transferred to a…

ICRC NEWS 01 SHORT MENU.... IRIAN JAYA: HELP ARRIVES BY SEA: A ship carrying 82 tonnes of emergency food supplied by the ICRC has managed to reach the coastal town of Timika in Irian Jaya. STORIES IN FULL... A ship carrying 82…

Authorities in Indonesia say 17 people have died in the province of Irian Jaya from hunger in the past month, taking the total of deaths blamed on the current drought to 673. The official Antara news agency says nearly 150-thousand…