Indonesia Deforestation and Global Warmingby | 17-02-2016 10:29 |
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   When I was a child, my teacher taught me that Indonesia is one of "World 's lungs", it provides us Oxygen to breath, giving us plant or animals Biodiversities, and it covers us to reduce and save carbon emissions. (FAO, 2010) Indonesian forests account for around 2.3% of global forest cover and represent 44% of the Southeast Asian forested area (KOH et al., 2013). According to the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry (MOF, 2011), the total designated forest area in Indonesia was about 131 million ha. In 2009/2010, approximately 98 million ha of the designated forest area was still forested (MOF, 2011). Indonesia is experiencing the world?s second highest rates of deforestation, due to pressure associated with socioeconomic and political changes (FAO, 2001, 2006 HANSEN et al., 2008, 2009 MARGONO et al., 2012). It saves lots of carbon, but when 'Deforestation' happens, it's gonna be worst! Because it's resulting so much Carbon Emissions i.e. 97% of Indonesia GHG Emissions came from Deforestation. Imagine, if on 2010, there're 2.0 GTon CO2, then 1.94 GTon CO2 came from deforestation. It tooks 4% of world GHG emissions which was not good at all. Deforestation need to be addressed! The government need to consider environmental effect if it continues. Indonesia needs to tighten its law about the Regulation, doing reforestation instead of deforestation, and give punishment to those who's doing it wrong! Here's several photos about Indonesia Deforestation (Source: Reuters, Greenpeace Indonesia,
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