Unrealistic Rice Field Program
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
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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