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Unrealistic Rice Field Program

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

PRESIDENT Joko Widodo’s instruction to create new rice fields in peatland areas has received strong criticisms. Some argue that such program had been done and failed.

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A rice field in Samahani village, Greater Aceh Regency, Aceh. ANTARA/Ampelsa. tempo : 173220933520.

Wahyu Perdana, Manager for the Essential Food, Water, and Ecosystem Campaign at the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi), considers the program to create new rice fields will likely repeat the errors of the New Order era, which launched a million-hectare peatland project. According to Wahyu, creating new rice fields on peatlands will damage the peat swamp ecosystem. On top of that, it could result in peatland and forest fires during the d

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