Indonesia Has Signed Letter of Intent for Forestry Renovation

Indonesia has signed Letter of Intent about forestry renovation in Indonesia for reduce green house effect emission. This letter of intent has signed by the president of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the president of Norway Jens Stoltenberg. In this corporation Indonesia obtain fund 1 milliard US Dollar for forestry renovation from damaged in Indonesia. For this, Indonesia agree to apply memoratum usage protection of natural wood and peat most land for two years. This is commitment that has been waiting its action. Action in aid of development countries that has forest to renovation. In other side, Development countries should keep its forest from damage. This is a one of commitments that had agreed in Kopenhagen convention in December ago. In that United Nations Convention of Global warming in Konpenhagen was mention that development forested countries has a right obtain the fund 30 milliard US Dollar for renovation its forest from economical countries between 2010 to 2012.

So far, Indonesia has not been confirmed where the application of forest renovation and places as pilot project. Hope Riau province is the one of that place, cause look from damage of the forest Riau province is one of the places that forest condition the most damage. Such as Tisso Nilo National Park, just only the name, the conservation forest but the biggest park of the content is palm oil plantation.

Forest on fire in Riau

Riau Governor Rusli Zaenal had fly over to see the fired forest and field in two regency Bengkalis and Dumai (Daily Riau Pos, Thursday, January 29th, 2008). As following Governor from 42 fired point (hots spot) in Riau based on Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Directory, now remain only four fired point. That far has reduced he said. Indonesian government Jusuf Kalla is ready in aid to extinguish the forest fired. The fired Forest not National Park, but at Dumai is Forest Park Sepahat in Bukit Batu Regency. The fired location is far in center of forest so difficult to achieve the destination.
Smoky area is spread out boundary till cities around such as Pekanbaru, Duri, Bangkinang until Bukit tinggi had felt smoky air. The forest has been burning usually had fell down to open field such as crude palm. Indonesian law number 14 about forest confirm that the company had been felling down National Park Forest, will be a criminal sanction at ten years in cell, or five milliard rupiahs fine, and his field will be confiscated, such as had been happen in North Sumatera province. Governor hope the understanding the people to not burn a field, and to all company that had burn field law force will arrest them as law mention it.

Tesso Nilo National Park your destiny now.

Tesso Nilo is forest of the national Park in Riau Province declared by government since 2004. Live there Sumatra Elephant, Sumatra Tiger. There also grow several kinds of plant and Tree such as Mahoni (Swietenia Macrophylla), Saga (Adenanthera pavonina), Gajus (Anacardium Accidentale, Jack Fruit or local name Nangka (atocarpus samaea), Ketapang or local name was known as Buton (Termala Clopacia) Meranti, Kempas, Nibung, Jati, Pulai. But Now some Hacker thief the woods illegally.

Illegal logging has made the forest damage, certainly disturb the Natural habitat such as Sumatran Elephant, Tiger. The Hacker not from people around them but some ocnumt of private company had license from government to hack the tree. The license is able from Regency, Governor, or from Forestry Department. Hereby I call all the competence part to keep our forest together so that our grandchild is able to live with pure air in the world.