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Government is preparing a grand design to prevent Indonesia’s annual forest, land, and plantation fires, which would involved 17 ministries, 66 districts/cities and 731 villages.
Peatland Restoration Agency or BRG has been developing business models to support its effort to protect peats in the country.
Government is considering to ban temporary on new permits for cement factory with one specific target, Central Java province.
The key to protect the ecosystem was through preserve outside the ecosystem, said Minister of Environment and Forestry, in Jakarta, on Wednesday (14/12).
Ministry of Environment and Forestry claims to have restored at least 1,05 million hectares in 2016. In total, the ministry had restored 4 million ha between 2015-16.
Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, on Friday (25/11), had allocated 12.7 million hectares or ten percent of the country’s forest areas for social forestry.
Following Indonesia’s timber legality assurance system, locally known as SVLK, have been adopted as part of Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT). It will increase the country’s revenue from European Union market.
Regional administrations need to integrate mitigation and adaptation into their development planning considering that adaptation also inseparable part from disaster risk reduction management.
Indonesia will participate in the 13th Biodiversity Convention (COP CBD) in Cancun, Mexico, in conjunction with the 8th Cartagena Protocol and Second Meeting of Nagoya Protocol.
The finding of a finless porpoise in Kubu Raya waters, of Padang Tikar subdistrict, West Kalimantan province, had added the marine biodiversity importance to the area.
President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo said that 35.000 MW power plants development is still far from target.
Environment and Forestry Monitoring and Law Enforcement Agency Kalimantan Region and West Kalimantan police managed to confiscate forty frozen pangolins (Manis javanicus) from a house in Tanjungpura, South Pontianak subdistrict.
Indonesia is located in the world’s ring of fire with a potential of 30 Gigawatt in 330 spots but only five percent or 1,500 Megawatt is optimized.