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61112
Mon, 05/18/2009 - 15:24
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GREENPEACE WANTS TO MEET PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO DISCUSS DEFORESTATION
Jakarta, May 18 (ANTARA) - Greenpeace Indonesia wishes to meet presidential and vice presidential candidates to discuss deforestation, according to a spokesman of the environmental NGO.
"Greenpeace's plans to meet the three pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates is to make them aware of the forest damage which has gotten worse in Indonesia," Joko Arif, a campaigner of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, said here on Monday.
The pairs Greenpeace wished to meet were Jusuf Kalla-Wiranto, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY)-Boediono, and Megawati-Prabowo, he said.
The latest data showed the deforestation rate in Indonesia reached five times the width of Bali Island annually or 1.8 million hectares per year, of the country's total forest areas of around 120.35 million hectares, he said.
Arif said that Greenpeace believed it would be the right time to meet the presidential hopefuls and their running mates in the run up to the presidential election on July 8, 2009.
Greenpeace would urge the presidential hopefuls to consider issuing policies on logging restriction which was potential to destroy the environment, in efforts to save the forests, mitigate the climate change impacts, and protect the biological diversity as well as the rights of the traditional people to live, he said. ***
"Greenpeace's plans to meet the three pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates is to make them aware of the forest damage which has gotten worse in Indonesia," Joko Arif, a campaigner of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, said here on Monday.
The pairs Greenpeace wished to meet were Jusuf Kalla-Wiranto, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY)-Boediono, and Megawati-Prabowo, he said.
The latest data showed the deforestation rate in Indonesia reached five times the width of Bali Island annually or 1.8 million hectares per year, of the country's total forest areas of around 120.35 million hectares, he said.
Arif said that Greenpeace believed it would be the right time to meet the presidential hopefuls and their running mates in the run up to the presidential election on July 8, 2009.
Greenpeace would urge the presidential hopefuls to consider issuing policies on logging restriction which was potential to destroy the environment, in efforts to save the forests, mitigate the climate change impacts, and protect the biological diversity as well as the rights of the traditional people to live, he said. ***
