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View all search resultsJob Creation Law may have devastating impact on forests
The jobs law removes the minimum relative forest cover to be preserved by the government.
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provision in the controversial Job Creation Law raises the risk of further forest devastation as it relaxes rules on environmental protection, a local think tank says.
The recently passed legislation removes the minimum relative forest cover to be preserved by the government. Previously, Article 18 Paragraph 2 of Law No. 41/1999 on Forestry stipulated that the government should maintain a forest area equivalent to 30 percent of watershed or an island area for the environmental, social and economic interest of the locals.
“The removal of this provision [creates a chance] for environmental damage that is worse than what we see today,” Mirah Midadan, a researcher at the Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef), said in a virtual discussion on Monday.
“Without the provision on that percentage, the government must prepare a mitigation against the reduction in forest area, because it may lead to various kinds of natural disasters."
