We all know that forests play a role in mitigating climate change. However, we don’t know what kind the ability of forest that can help us to adapt to climate change? This knowledge gap has prompted a study of forest-based rural community strategy in a bid resilience against climatic variations across three continents. Preliminary results […]
Director General of Infrastructure and Facility Agriculture Ministry of Agriculture,Gatot Irianto said that remaining farmland in Indonesia is only 8.1 million hectares and will threatened out in 2149. That threat caused by increasing speed of land conversion up to two times larger than the target of making new field per year. Read full text on […]
SIEJ, Jakarta – In 2009, Indonesia voluntarily declare is committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2020 by 26 % on own efforts or reached 41 % with international aid. As part of this commitment, the Government formed REDD+ Management Agency who confirmed by the president on August 31, 2013 through the Presidential […]
Policy that discourse by the Governor of Aceh about a moratorium on mining in Aceh should be supported. Mining moratorium is believed to minimize the environmental problems that increasingly massive happening due to mining activity. Mining exploitation in Aceh has been out of control. Read full text on Atjehlink.
Ministry of environment (MOE) until July, noted at least 1.308 hotspots scattered in West Kalimantan and 662 hotspots in Riau arising due to opening land by burning. MOE’s notes until the beginning of August 2014 shows, there are 26 companies with 29 cases in Riau Province associated with the Karhutla (Land and Forest Fires). From […]
Forest loss just does not help food security in Indonesia, according to a high official World Food Programme (WFP), food assistance agency of the United Nations. Indonesian food supply chain focused on rice, corn and other cereals rich in energy but low in nutrients, said Myrta Kaulard, WFP country director in Indonesia. Read full text […]
More than 70 percent of fires occur outside the forest area. 99 percent of land and forest fires are due to human intentionally burned. Despite repeated smoke haze in Riau occurred every year, but the fact of forest fire are still happening. Based on the observation satellites Terra and Aqua recorded 286 hotspots in Sumatra […]
Researchers from Indonesia Climate Change Center-ICCC stated that Indonesia could be exporters of biofuels (BBN) in the world, if using the degraded land or critical land properly. However, the development of BBN only work on bio-diesel, whereas bioetanol failed. Whereas, serious implementation of bioetanol may be the solution of the energy deficit in Indonesia, as […]
Human Rights Foundation Against Violence (YAHAMAK), Mimika, is planning to sues the government of the Republic of Indonesia and Papua provincial government to the International Court of Justice, related to the implementation of the Act No. 4 of 2009 on Mineral Mining, Energy and Coal, were assessed without an obvious solution. They assess its obscurity […]
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