Deforestation

Deforestration has reached about 20 % of the world’ glass-house emissions. Nowadays, Indonesia and Brazil are known as the third and the fourth biggest emisson producing countries in the world, mainly caused by logging practices. To prevent a life-threatening changing climate, deforestration must be brought to a stop all over the world in coming decades.

The figure of deforestration rate in Indonesia is placed at 3.8 million ha. per year, meaning that about 7.2 ha forests are prone to destruction in a minute.
According to the World Research Institute, from 130 ha of entire forests in Indonesia, about 72 % of Indonesia’s original forests vanish. Hence, there is only about 28 % of the entire forests left. If no appropriate response and preventive measures are seriously taken either by the Indonesian government or citizens, obviously Indonesia will no longer have forests in coming two decades.

Overcutting forests not only results in the shortage of water absorption sites, abrasion, and natural disasters such as landslide and flood, but also gives rise to a serious loss of circulation center and the formation of carbondioxide and oxygen required by people in sustaining their lives.

These unfavorable conditions happen due to Indonesian people’s ignorance and poor awareness of the environment. The conditions of Indonesia’ s existing forests will never get better if no environment awareness is enhanced through information or education.It is evident that only a few numbers of people can get in touch with the current information in the internet. Not only do they have poor computer knowledge, they even cannot afford to pay its cost.

Surely, no forest protection efforts can be said to be successful without cooporation and mutual help from the local populace.