The Culprit of Forest Fire
If President Joko Widodo and his aides had been prepared to abide by the March 22, 2017, court ruling on the handling of fires in forests and land for agriculture, this year’s fires might have been prevented.
Tempo
September 23, 2019
BUT instead of abiding by the ruling on the lawsuit filed by Indonesian citizens, Jokowi fought back by appealing, then going to cassation appeal and even asking for a judicial review after losing at every level of the courts.
This ruling laid out in detail the government obligations to prevent and deal with fires over 2.6 million hectares of forests and cultivation land in 2015: from granting concessions to plantation companies, building p
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