Choirul Fuadi, Central Kalimantan, CIDISS – (27/11/2015), Greenpeace together with CIMTROP University of Palangkaraya and Save Our Borneo acted directly to protect the future of the rain forest and restoration of peat.
Greenpeace activists working side by side together with the citizens, volunteers, as well as the local organization Save Our Borneo, and the Center for International Cooperation in the Sustainable Management of Tropical Peatland (CIMTROP) University of Palangkaraya stem the Canal as long as it is used for drying the peat to improve the levels of water in the peat.
The dam will close the Canal located at Pulang Pisau, Central Kalimantan, one of the areas with the largest number of fire points during the period from forest fires and land by 2015.
Quoted from greenpeace.org, Greenpeace Indonesia Forest Campaigner, Rusmadya Maharuddin stated:
“Blocked the Canal is an example based on presidential instruction, Jokowi ahead of talks on climate change to protect peat. The blocked canal will restore the natural moisture content of peat. The destruction of forests and peat lands, especially for the estate, is the main cause of forest fires and Indonesia’s largest source of contributions to climate change.
“We want to make sure the President Jokowi issued regulations that require companies blocked the canal which was used for drying peat, as well as giving permanent protection to peat as a promise that he would convey some time ago. The President must give the force of law in the policy of zero Deforestation through strengthening the existing moratorium on policies for the forest and peat land, including secondary forest and forest in concession, “
