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73739
Tue, 08/04/2009 - 14:38
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GREENPEACE URGES SBY TO STOP FOREST FIRES
Jakarta, Aug 3 (ANTARA)- Greenpeace has urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to take significant measures in overcoming the spreading forest fires in Riau, Central Kalimantan and West Kalimantan, and parts of Sulawesi.
"President Yudhoyono needs to immediately become aware of the coming climatic crisis, and take immediate steps by declaring a moratorium on forest felling activities," Greenpeace forest campaigner for Southeast Asia Zulfahmi said in Jakarta, Sunday.
He said that in the period of the second government, SBY will become one of the eight most important world leaders, who have the chance to make a historical milestone in overcoming climate change at the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.
To demonstrate his goodwill, he said, SBY needs to bring about a condition free of forest fires this year, and put a stop to oil palm and industrial forest companies which had been destroying the forests in Indonesia.
"If this happens, the forest protection fund may immediately flow from the advanced countries for use in a sustainable solution to the care and maintenance of forests, in the interest of the people and biodiversity which is highly dependent on forests, and win the global war against climate change," Zulfahmi said.
He said that the forest fires in a number of areas were in the beginning done on purpose by palm oil and industrial forest companies for the opening of plantations.
For the past two days, a Greenpeace team in association with local communities to put out fires in a Pulau Gelang village, Kuala Cinaku subdistrict, South Riau, used equipment already prepared in 2007 at the time Greenpeace held a fire fighting training course.
The fire fighting team of 15 members who had been engaged in an action such as in a closed oil palm plantation where fire had destroyed more than 1,000 hectares of land, which had a direct impact on the farms of the people.
"President Yudhoyono needs to immediately become aware of the coming climatic crisis, and take immediate steps by declaring a moratorium on forest felling activities," Greenpeace forest campaigner for Southeast Asia Zulfahmi said in Jakarta, Sunday.
He said that in the period of the second government, SBY will become one of the eight most important world leaders, who have the chance to make a historical milestone in overcoming climate change at the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.
To demonstrate his goodwill, he said, SBY needs to bring about a condition free of forest fires this year, and put a stop to oil palm and industrial forest companies which had been destroying the forests in Indonesia.
"If this happens, the forest protection fund may immediately flow from the advanced countries for use in a sustainable solution to the care and maintenance of forests, in the interest of the people and biodiversity which is highly dependent on forests, and win the global war against climate change," Zulfahmi said.
He said that the forest fires in a number of areas were in the beginning done on purpose by palm oil and industrial forest companies for the opening of plantations.
For the past two days, a Greenpeace team in association with local communities to put out fires in a Pulau Gelang village, Kuala Cinaku subdistrict, South Riau, used equipment already prepared in 2007 at the time Greenpeace held a fire fighting training course.
The fire fighting team of 15 members who had been engaged in an action such as in a closed oil palm plantation where fire had destroyed more than 1,000 hectares of land, which had a direct impact on the farms of the people.
