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June 17, 2009I was reading the Jakarta Post today, and I stumbled upon an article that I thought I should share with my blog readers.. The title of the article: Green activists challenge candidates. If you haven’t already known, Indonesia is currently having presidential election. And the green activists demand the next elected government to concretely act on environmental issues rather than merely promising to create policies or joining another international environmental agreements.
And to my surprise, the article also mentioned that Indonesia has been recorded in the Guiness World Records as the country with the highest deforestation rate, which led to “recurring natural disaster from floods to landslides and air and water pollution across the nation” (Jakarta Post, 2009). I know we have so much deforestation, but I wouldn’t guess it’s highest in the world. And now I know, we are in dire need of better environmental policies.
