Joko to Introduce Forestry Reforms, Moratorium at Climate Change Summit
Jakarta. President Joko Widodo will introduce Indonesia's plans to reform the way it manages its forest and peatland at the annual conference of parties on climate change in Paris this week, as it sets an ambitious target to reduce carbon emissions by 29 percent by 2030.
Joko was scheduled to issue a regulation on peat management before heading to Paris, according to Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar. But as he departed at 9.45 a.m. on Sunday, it became clear that the draft regulation will be introduced at the summit, where Indonesia is expected to answer some tough questions regarding the recent wildfire in Kalimantan and Sumatra.
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Haze, a test of palm oil dominance
Adisti Sukma Sawitri, Jakarta | Opinion | Tue, November 24 2015, 4:37 PM
egions in recent weeks. Will the government’s sense of urgency in tackling the annual problem also recede? One may fear so.
Despite months of serious efforts to address the fires, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s administration hasn’t established concrete measures to stop the expansion of oil palm plantations through slash-and-burn practices, the main cause of the problem.
It is not rocket science to understand why that is.
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Jokowi to sign peat land decree before COP21
Hans Nicholas Jong, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Wed, November 25 2015, 5:02 PM
In wake of the recent forest fires that razed more than 2 million hectares of land in Indonesia, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo plans to issue a government regulation (PP) on restoration, conservation and rehabilitation of peatland.
Presidential special envoy for climate change Rachmat Witoelar said on Tuesday that a draft of the regulation was currently being prepared by the government.
“[The PP] will be signed soon,” he told reporters after a meeting at the Environment and Forestry Ministry to prepare Indonesian delegates for the UN climate talks slated for next week.
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How to save Indonesia’s life-supporting forests ?
Edi Purwanto and Soren Moestrup, Jakarta | Opinion | Mon, November 23 2015, 4:39 PM
Once again, catastrophic forest and land fires in Indonesia have become a hot issue in the national and international press. Haze from Sumatra to Papua has been creating massive problems in Indonesia and in its neighboring countries.
While billions of US dollars have been spent to mitigate the calamity, it was proven that the only effective way of curbing these disasters was natural rainfall. Rainfall has once again acted as the solution to the haze problem.
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