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None of the candidates show real commitment to conservation, says Greenpeace
Greenpeace Indonesia, an NGO working for the protection and conservation of the environment, says that the two presidential-vice presidential candidates, Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa and Joko âJokowiâ Widodo-Jusuf Kalla, have not yet shown a clear commitment to synchronizing economic development, social justice and environment protection
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reenpeace Indonesia, an NGO working for the protection and conservation of the environment, says that the two presidential-vice presidential candidates, Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa and Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo-Jusuf Kalla, have not yet shown a clear commitment to synchronizing economic development, social justice and environment protection.
Greenpeace Indonesia's campaigner for climate and energy, Hindun Mulaika, said that while she appreciated how both candidates highlighted the importance of energy diversification and energy renewable during the final presidential debate on Saturday, their visions for implementation fell short.
'Jokowi-Kalla have not yet explained in detail their ideas about low carbon development, which should become a priority in the nation's future economic development,' said Hindun in Jakarta on Sunday, as quoted by Antara news agency.
Meanwhile, she said, Prabowo-Hatta merely highlighted the importance of population growth, without acknowledging that the exploitation of natural resources in Indonesia posed the gravest threat to the environment.
The final televised presidential debate, which was moderated by Diponegoro University rector Sudharto P.Hadi, was focused on food security, energy and the environment.
Hindun said Prabowo-Hatta managed to explain their strategies to increase new and renewable energy via concrete measures, namely incentives, 'feed-in-tariffs', and a clear emissions reduction target of more than 25 percent in 2030. The problem was, she said, the candidate pair still had a program to increase explorations of oil and other fossil-based energy sources.
During the debate, Hindun said, Jokowi-Kalla said they wanted to reduce Indonesia's dependency on fuel by improving public transportation infrastructure, especially in big cities, and that this was one of the solutions to increasing energy efficiency.
However, Hindun said, the candidate pair's program was still reliant upon the predominance of fossil-based fuels.
Greenpeace Indonesia's campaigner for forest conservation, Teguh Surya, said Prabowo-Hatta's commitment to impose tough sanctions against companies involved in forest destruction had not yet been sufficiently tested as there were still a number of unresolved forest-fire and corruption court cases awaiting trial.
Teguh also said that commitments to resolving the overlapping of permits in forest areas should be started by strengthening and extending the moratorium on new permits in peat land and natural forests that were set to expire in May 2015.
Teguh further said that both candidate pairs failed to clarify whether they would extend previous carbon emission reduction commitments, such that it was possible that peatland and natural forests would not receive protection in the future. (gda/ebf)
