InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA -When the pollution created by the advanced countries (Read: Europe, America, Australia) have the top level, they start to claim, global warming occurs and then climate change happens. Then they start looking for the source. The Phd and Doctor holders in NGO who are paid, have turned the world attention to the forest existence which absorbs the carbon they produced. The forests in the tropical countries are in Indonesia and Brazil. It is so sad to know it.
The western countries still colonialize. Some of us may have inferior feeling as the colonialized nation. Non-of our leader said, “We manage our own forest and we have sovereignty on our forest!”
The forests in Indonesia should be used to conserve the nation and to increase the national economy for the wealthy of its people. The forests in Indonesia are not to clean the carbon produced by rich countries!
Pressured by NGO and the urgency from Norway, by having US$ 1 billion as the price, two of our president agreed and signed Memorandum of Forest Advantage and it is the third time that the memorandum has been prolonged.
Indonesia having the 9th widest forest in the world is ordered to do memorandum of the forest advantage by the country which might not have forest. The US$ 1 billion was never got though the memorandum has been prolonged.
If our leaders are clever, they would say, Norway should do Moratorium of Forest Advantage in its own country. CIA Fact Book 2011 mentioned, 29% of the land in Norway is covered by the forest. The forests in Indonesia covered 46% of the land. On the other hand, the forests in Indonesia are much larger than those in Norway which lie about 94.000 hectares, while Indonesia has 890.000 hectares.
The world is up down now. Who would make sample to who? Who is inferior and who is superior? Please compared the forest conservation in Indonesia, the Europe and other western countries? The forest in Franch 37% – the numbers have been put as the colonialized in the sea; Italy 35%; Luxembourg 34%;New Zealand, and Germany 32%; Switzerland, Canada, and USA 31%; Belgium 22%, England and Denmark 12%; Australia 19%; Ireland 11%;and Netherland 9%. The numbers are too much low than the forest cover in Indonesia reaching 46%.
Knowing these facts, the environmental NGOs from those having narrow forests are brave to claim that they understand more and are aware of the environment than us. They want to teach, regulate, order, tell what to do to manage and cultivate our forests. As a matter of fact, they should learn from us about how to conserve the forest. They are not the fighters of the environment. They are the spears of the green imperialist countries. (Maruli Pardamean/Practitioner of Palm Oil).
