The rate of forest and land destruction in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) is still quite large. The extent of 507 thousand hectares consists of 230 thousand hectares in forest area and 277 thousand hectares outside the forest region. Whereas forest area is 1,071,722 hectares or 53.14 percent of the entire NTB land on which reached 2,015,315 hectares. Moreover, flash floods that took place on January 20 in Sambelia, East Lombok, also reported as a result of 200 hectares of forest destruction.
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