Govt fails to pay enough attention to environment: Walhi
Hans David Tampubolon, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 01/28/2010 6:21 PM
The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) says that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has failed to pay enough attention to the environmental issues in his first 100 days.
“This regime has been busy with the ‘Gecko Versus Crocodile’ issue, and the Bank Century scandal," Walhi Executive Director Berry Nahdian Forqan told the Jakarta Post via email on Thursday.
"The effect is other important issues such as the environmental issue has yet to receive enough public attention,”
The ‘Gecko Versus Crocodile’ controversy was about the framing of two Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairmen, Chandra M. Hamzah and Bibit Samad Riyanto, while the ongoing Bank Century scandal is on a 2008 bailout that ten folded to Rp 6.76 trillion (US$716 million) from its original estimate.
“To add more irony, the emergency status of Indonesian’s ecology state, which is marked with massive disasters, has also yet to receive maximum attention in terms of regulation under the regime of SBY [Yudhoyono],” Berry said.
