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`ONE MAN, ONE TREE` PROGRAM NEEDS TO BE RESUMED
Jakarta, June 20 (ANTARA) - The government's "one man, one tree" program that was launched by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in November 2008 needs to be resumed, a Regional Representatives Council (DPD) member said.
DPD member Yunus Sjamsuddin said here on Saturday that the Indonesian people would be able to plant about 230 million trees every year if each of the country's its population of 230 million planted one tree each year.
The one man, one tree program wass made by the Indonesian people as a contribution to the efforts to improve the quality of the environment and of overcoming the problem of global warming now being taken up in discourses of the international community.
He said though the project was basically a national program yet it contained a message of a moral movement where forest preservation became not only the responsibility of the government but also of the Indonesian people.
So far it has been stated that about 59 million hectares of the country's 120 million hectres of forest needs to be rehabilitated.
However, Forestry Minister MS Kaban has denied this figure.
"In the documents that I have signed, it is stated that the total area of Indonesian forests is 138 million hectares, not 120 million hectares as so far mentioned," the forestry minister said last week.
In addition to the area of forests, the minister said he also needed to clarify and inform the public about the area of forests and lands in critical condition.
"Since 2003, it has been stated that 59 million hectares of the existing 120 million hectares of Indonesia's total forest area need to be rehabilitated. As we have implemented the forest rehabilitation program since 2003 through the National Rehabilitation Movement (Gerhan), the area of critical lands must have decreased," the minister said.
Some three million hectares of critical lands had been rehabilitated under the Gerhan program since 2003, meaning that the total area of critical lands now was around 56 million hectares.***
DPD member Yunus Sjamsuddin said here on Saturday that the Indonesian people would be able to plant about 230 million trees every year if each of the country's its population of 230 million planted one tree each year.
The one man, one tree program wass made by the Indonesian people as a contribution to the efforts to improve the quality of the environment and of overcoming the problem of global warming now being taken up in discourses of the international community.
He said though the project was basically a national program yet it contained a message of a moral movement where forest preservation became not only the responsibility of the government but also of the Indonesian people.
So far it has been stated that about 59 million hectares of the country's 120 million hectres of forest needs to be rehabilitated.
However, Forestry Minister MS Kaban has denied this figure.
"In the documents that I have signed, it is stated that the total area of Indonesian forests is 138 million hectares, not 120 million hectares as so far mentioned," the forestry minister said last week.
In addition to the area of forests, the minister said he also needed to clarify and inform the public about the area of forests and lands in critical condition.
"Since 2003, it has been stated that 59 million hectares of the existing 120 million hectares of Indonesia's total forest area need to be rehabilitated. As we have implemented the forest rehabilitation program since 2003 through the National Rehabilitation Movement (Gerhan), the area of critical lands must have decreased," the minister said.
Some three million hectares of critical lands had been rehabilitated under the Gerhan program since 2003, meaning that the total area of critical lands now was around 56 million hectares.***
