{"id":69125,"date":"2021-06-03T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T04:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ekuatorial.com\/2021\/06\/community-based-ffforts-help-reforest-the-bromo-tengger-semeru-national-park\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T07:20:47","slug":"community-based-ffforts-help-reforest-the-bromo-tengger-semeru-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ekuatorial.com\/en\/2021\/06\/community-based-ffforts-help-reforest-the-bromo-tengger-semeru-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Community-based efforts help reforest the Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In front of a row of three green houses<\/em> which had seen better days, 37- year-old Suwandi, and his teenage son Sofian were busy piling up tree seedlings on the back of motorcycles. Unlike the green houses<\/em> which appeared already tired despite having been built just five years ago, the two worked energetically in the cold mountainous air at more than 2,500 meters above sea level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a while, about 150 tree seedlings of three local species — Kesek, Dononia and Cemara were neatly piled on the motorcycle, ready to be taken to Jempang, an area of the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park (TNBTS) that is currently being reforested. Awaiting them there were a number of young volunteers, including Sofian\u2019s fellow students at a local Muslim boarding school who had ample time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sofian, is showing the plant seeds he and his planting party are ready to plant<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

Despite their young age, the teenagers appeared very enthusiastic in helping plant the seedlings along a road within the park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have often helped father plant (the seedlings). My friends are also glad to help, and it just happens that it is their holiday. So that the forest is no longer damaged,\u201d said Sofian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that he and his friends only wanted their playground, near their homes, to be green once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Nurul Huda Salafi Muslim boarding house in Pajaran, in the Tumpang sub-district of Malang, Sofian and his friends are also taught about the importance of forests in their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Sofian, the lessons were not mere lessons because he had seen with his own eyes how large swaths of green forests in the park had now become charred open fields. A big fire, not the first and certainly not the last, had devastated thousands of hectares of forest there in 2019. Sofian has seen how his father had worked tirelessly to replant the burned areas despite also having to care for the family\u2019s own potato field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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