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An Indonesian crowdsourcing app is tapping into the competitive spirit of its users by creating Pokemon Go-type games to help map land across the sprawling archipelago and protect forests and indigenous people, organizers said recently.
Protection of forest land inside and outside state forest calls for the strategic roles and strong collaboration of national and local governments, private sector, NGOs and local communities. It is also time for President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, our leading forester who graduated from forestry studies, to make innovative approaches and actions to save our remaining forest.
The Guardian uses a Google technology called TensorFlow that can record every sound in the forest and send them to the forest rangers’ smartphones through the Rainforest Connection mobile application.
One of the banners used during the protest was emblazoned with the words “Jokowi, help us. Reject the proposal for a mining road traversing the remaining forest area in South Sumatra-Jambi borders”.
While some Asian countries have introduced policies to conserve forests and give more rights to indigenous people, the area of planted forest nearly doubled between 1990 and 2015 at the expense of more critical primary forests.
