Indonesia News » Riau News Indonesia » Riau: Preventing Forest Fires in Indonesia: Focus on Riau Province, Peatland, and Illegal Burning
Indonesia’s latest major forest and peat fires left a trail of devastation in their wake. The fires, which reached a peak in March similar to that seen in the June 2013 haze crisis, produced vast ...
News Indonesia » Riau: Indonesia’s Riau province declares state of emergency before fire season
Upon his inauguration as governor of Riau in early 2019, Syamsuar promised to “protect the dignity of Indonesia” by ensuring that the vast Sumatran province, home to rivers, forests, peatlands and oil ...
News Indonesia » Riau: Riau Islands Poised to Become Indonesia's Golf Tourism Hub, Minister Says
Indonesia's Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno (center) is seen doing a golf drive at the Wonderful Indonesia Golf Tournament in Batam, Riau Islands, on June 29, 2024.
News Indonesia » Riau: Riau Leads Indonesia's High-Integrity Forest Carbon Market
The launch of the JREDD+ data and knowledge management system for Riau Province during the Green for Riau Initiative High-Level Dialogue in Pekanbaru, Riau, September 7, 2026. Doc. PETAI Foundation/UN ...
News Indonesia » Riau: Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season
If you liked this story, share it with other people. On the northeast coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, the first of two annual dry seasons led to a spike in wildfires in some peatland areas in ...
News Indonesia » Riau: Suspected man-eating tiger captured in Riau
The tiger was captured after two people were killed in July in an area bordering the tiger’s natural habitat in Semenanjung Kampar.
News Indonesia » Riau: Indonesia’s Riau ready to evacuate residents from flooding areas after fighting forest fires
People walking through a flood on Nov 15, 2025, in Rokan Hulu regency in Riau. - Courtesy of BPBD Rokan Hulu/File PEKANBARU: Drastic weather changes in the past few days have forced Regional Disaster ...
News Indonesia » Riau: Indonesia’s Riau Islands set for more big solar and storage
Developers are moving fast to meet Singapore’s clean energy needs by establishing overseas solar-plus-storage plants, with a strong focus on facilities in neighboring Indonesia. Singaporean clean ...
News Indonesia » Riau: Riau Islands, US Embassy meet to fight human trafficking, transnational crimes
Most Indonesians trapped in online scam syndicates abroad are victims of human trafficking who were lured by promises of high wages before being exploited.
News Indonesia » Riau: 15 fire-linked firms escape prosecution in Indonesia’s Riau
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The police in Riau, Indonesia’s top palm oil-producing province and one of the hardest-hit by last year’s disastrous forest and peatland fires, ...
News Indonesia » Riau: In Riau, Indonesia, Women Organize for Environmental Justice
A group of women from Sungai Berbari, a village in Riau, Indonesia, blockade a road that leads to a nearby oil palm plantation. They’re protesting the companies that operate the plantation because ...