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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - Two years into the second term of President Joko Widodo, and as COP26 approaches, Indonesia has once again shown itself to be unafflicted by the double-disaster of haze-causing fires on top of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
This means that Indonesia has successfully avoided this double-disaster for two consecutive years (2020-2021), while also ensuring that its neighbors have been spared any transboundary haze as they struggle to handle the effects of the pandemic.
“With reference to a set of clear evidence and trends sourced on the ground and from satellite monitoring over most of the past 10 months, alongside predictions until the end of this month, Indonesia can be sure that it will be free, once again, from the double-disaster this year,” said the country’s Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya while providing an important update on this issue (Oct 20).
“This means there have been no substantial haze-causing fires in Indonesia for both the years of the global pandemic,” she added.
Many people forecast that Indonesia would be hit by a double-disaster both this year and last, but the country has successfully defied these predictions.
Minister Nurbaya explained that hotspots at a confidence level of above 80% - which indicates potential fire spots - had declined by over 50% as of yesterday (Oct 20) compared to the same period last year.
“As of now and certainly to the end of this month, our technical observations confirm wet conditions in Sumatra and Kalimantan, which are major spots for the implementation of permanent solutions aimed at tackling haze-causing fires,” Minister Nurbaya explained.
Indonesia, she continued, will move out of its peak dry season at the end of this month without having had any substantial haze-causing fires, without the so-called double disaster.
“We are of course eternally grateful to God for answering our prayers which, along with all the hard work we have put in, has enabled us to evade the double-disaster for the last two years in a row,” she enthused.
As previously reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Sep 27), Indonesia has contributed practically 0% to global fire emissions this year. This contrasts starkly with other countries in the Mediterranean and North America (US and Canada), as well as the Russian region of Siberia, which have endured the double-disaster of the pandemic exacerbated by serious wildfires - making them among the top contributors to global fire emissions this year.
As also reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Oct 4), palm oil and pulpwood concessions distributed across Indonesia have had virtually no impact on global fire emissions, given the extremely minor amount of burned areas in these concessions.
Both President Widodo and Minister Nurbaya can rightfully claim astonishing success at COP26 by having skillfully averted the dreaded double-disaster in both years of the ongoing global pandemic, as well as by keeping Indonesia well off the list of highest contributing countries to global fire emissions.
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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - Two years into the second term of President Joko Widodo, and as COP26 approaches, Indonesia has once again shown itself to be unafflicted by the double-disaster of haze-causing fires on top of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
This means that Indonesia has successfully avoided this double-disaster for two consecutive years (2020-2021), while also ensuring that its neighbors have been spared any transboundary haze as they struggle to handle the effects of the pandemic.
“With reference to a set of clear evidence and trends sourced on the ground and from satellite monitoring over most of the past 10 months, alongside predictions until the end of this month, Indonesia can be sure that it will be free, once again, from the double-disaster this year,” said the country’s Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya while providing an important update on this issue (Oct 20).
“This means there have been no substantial haze-causing fires in Indonesia for both the years of the global pandemic,” she added.
Many people forecast that Indonesia would be hit by a double-disaster both this year and last, but the country has successfully defied these predictions.
Minister Nurbaya explained that hotspots at a confidence level of above 80% - which indicates potential fire spots - had declined by over 50% as of yesterday (Oct 20) compared to the same period last year.
“As of now and certainly to the end of this month, our technical observations confirm wet conditions in Sumatra and Kalimantan, which are major spots for the implementation of permanent solutions aimed at tackling haze-causing fires,” Minister Nurbaya explained.
Indonesia, she continued, will move out of its peak dry season at the end of this month without having had any substantial haze-causing fires, without the so-called double disaster.
“We are of course eternally grateful to God for answering our prayers which, along with all the hard work we have put in, has enabled us to evade the double-disaster for the last two years in a row,” she enthused.
As previously reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Sep 27), Indonesia has contributed practically 0% to global fire emissions this year. This contrasts starkly with other countries in the Mediterranean and North America (US and Canada), as well as the Russian region of Siberia, which have endured the double-disaster of the pandemic exacerbated by serious wildfires - making them among the top contributors to global fire emissions this year.
As also reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Oct 4), palm oil and pulpwood concessions distributed across Indonesia have had virtually no impact on global fire emissions, given the extremely minor amount of burned areas in these concessions.
Both President Widodo and Minister Nurbaya can rightfully claim astonishing success at COP26 by having skillfully averted the dreaded double-disaster in both years of the ongoing global pandemic, as well as by keeping Indonesia well off the list of highest contributing countries to global fire emissions.
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