MINISTER OF FORESTRY
Daniel Murdiyarso
Competent, inflexible, and nonpartisan, Daniel can eliminate conflict of interest in this department.
October 20, 2009
INDONESIA’S forests are in an alarming condition. According to the Forest Research & Development Institute, from a total of 137 million hectares, approximately 1.08 million hectares of forest are destroyed every year. The cause: forest clearing for farms and plantations, illegal logging and forest fires. Even Greenpeace places Indonesia as the third-largest carbon emitter in the world.
The role of the Forestry Department is very strategic in h
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