Government readies Rp3.7-trillion grants for W Nusa Tenggara s tourism
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Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno. ANTARA/HO-West Nusa Tenggara s Communication and Informatics Office Mataram, W Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA) - The government has allotted Rp3.7 trillion (US$259 million) in grants for development of the tourism sector in West Nusa Tenggara Province, Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno stated. The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy will always increase its attention, particularly to the Mandalika Special Economic Zone (KEK) (in West Nusa Tenggara) through tourism grants worth Rp3.7 trillion, Uno noted in a written statement released on Friday.
BMKG forecasts potential forest, land fires after transition season
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Photo Archive. Personnel from Village Guidance Officer (Babinsa) and Pekanbaru Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) extinguished peatland fires in Rumbai Sub-district of Pekanbaru City in Riau on Monday (3/1/2021). (ANTARA FOTO/FB Anggoro) Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) has forecast likely expansion of dry areas following the transition season and urged the government in these prone regions to stay alert to potential forest and land fires. (Local governments) should be vigilant because during the period of late April and early May, dry areas will tend to increase and become more evenly distributed, Agie Wandala Putra, Head of BMKG s Weather Early Warning Sub-Division, stated here on Friday.
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JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The government will include climate crisis adaptation in every effort to mitigate disasters across the country as the archipelago is projected to see an increase in the number of climate-related natural disasters in the coming years.
National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) prevention division deputy head Lilik Kurniawan said authorities were looking more into the effect of the climate crisis on natural disasters, especially following a series of disasters in East Nusa Tenggara presumably caused by Tropical Cyclone Seroja.
The Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) recorded Seroja as the strongest tropical cyclone Indonesia had seen since 2008.
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