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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono presented four national forest protection policies to preserve nature and the climate during his speech at the UN Climate Summit on forests at the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) chamber at the UN Headquarters in New York City on Tuesday.

'€œBased on our experience, we have four policies on forest preservation in Indonesia,'€ he said at the session, which was opened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Yudhoyono said that the first policy involved Indonesia'€™s commitment to reducing its carbon emissions by 26 percent by the year 2020.

Your comments:

Indonesia has overtaken Brazil as the world'€™s biggest deforester failure since SBY became president. This is another area in which his leadership has been useless '€” literally, the worst in the world.

Lasem Benny

President SBY undeniably has a very high expertise in terms of delivering rhetoric and verbose speeches, but he indeed lacks knowledge of how to implement on the ground what he reads on his paper speeches.

He talked about his successful forest protection policies at the UN summit in New York a few days ago, but let'€™s see what happens with the rampant forest and peat land fires that are currently burning in Sumatra and Kalimantan.

Do we consider this as a big success of forest protection policies as mentioned by SBY in his speech in New York?

Or can we say that incompetence with dealing with forest and peat land fires is one of the legacies President SBY leaves to our next generation?

Do hope that our next president Joko '€œJokowi'€ Widodo will not repeat NATO (No Action Talk Only) in terms of protecting our forest and peat land resources.

Alue Dohong

First off, why is the President even out of the country when the most important vote to threaten Indonesia'€™s democratic voice is going on?

Why is the President absent when his party, in which he calls the shots, walks out of a legislative vote? Being in the US, the reporters better be ready for him and his whitewashing answers.

Oh, and why is he even being allowed to address this forum as someone that should be listened to when he has such a bad record for protecting his own nation'€™s forest?

X Simaging

What is there to be proud of at the UN conference on forest protection when we lose the most forest acreage in the world to the lumber and timber industry, plus to the '€œunstoppable'€ forest fires raging continuously in Riau province?

Malam

And only last week on Sept. 16, after stalling for 10 years, Indonesia adopted the ASEAN Agreement
on Transboundary Haze Pollution '€” to jointly control with other ASEAN countries the haze pollution it annually emits to Malaysia and Singapore.

Wandering