SBY and Minister of Forests must work together to protect Indonesia’s forests

Greenpeace: The coalition of Indonesian NGOs on forests and climate today called for urgent action to strengthen and extend the two-year moratorium on deforestation which expires on 20 May. The moratorium has been weakened by lobbying from industry and even some government ministries, including the Ministry of Forestry. Recent Greenpeace analysis of the latest moratorium maps shows that the Ministry of Forestry's SK 458 Decree consigned over 600,000 hectares of forest, just in the province of Papua alone,...

URL: http://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/id/press/releases/SBY-and-Minister-of-Forests-must-work-together-to-protect-Indonesias-forests/