Badan Pengkajian dan Penerapan Teknologi (BPPT)

BPPT sows 86.9 tons of salt to induce rains

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PEKANBARU -- The Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) has dispersed 86.9 tons of salt powder in the past two months to induce rains through the weather modification method (TMC) over the Riau Province."We are still doing the job," the head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB)'s data unit Agus Wibowo stated here on Friday.The...

Smoke billows during a forest fires in Pelalawan, Riau province, Indonesia, as seen in this file photo on June 27, 2013.

Police arrest farmer for allegedly burning forested land

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PEKANBARU -- Police have arrested a farmer suspected of setting fire to forested land to prepare the fields for an oil palm plantation in Rokan Hilir district, Riau province."Police also seized a number of items from the farmer as evidence," chief of the Rokan district police Adj. Snr. Comr. Tonny Hermawan said on Saturday.The evidence included several pieces...