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10 June 2020
  Amidst the Pandemic of Covid 19, Indonesia celebrated the 2nd World Food Safety Day (10/6), in a webinar led by National Drugs and Food Authority (BPOM) in Jakarta, Indonesia. The webinar titled "World Food Safety Day: Safe Food in Markets" were attended by key partners in food safety practice in...
06 June 2020
Today the world observed the World Food Safety Day which gained a momentum during Covid 19 pandemic where everyone has needed to pay extra attention to their food safety.  The pandemic has heightened  awareness about the need for personal hygiene, such as frequent hand washing, to avoid transmitting the virus, it has...
30 May 2020
Jakarta – As the COVID-19 epidemic rages on in Indonesia, the government eventually increased the number of laboratories allowed to test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of Coronavirus disease. The Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health Services, Ministry of Agriculture (DGLAHS-MoA) has stepped up its One Health collaboration...
22 May 2020
Conservation and sustainable use can work together to protect plants, animals and livelihoods
22 May 2020
    Indonesian peatlands store eighty percent of national soil organic carbon. Peat-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been estimated to be responsible for at least thirty eight percent of total national greenhouse gases. Peatland rewetting and other restoration action helps to maintain the carbon in the soil and vegetation without being emitted...