Thursday, 24 Sep 2020 08:11 AM MYTJAKARTA, Sept 24 — Indonesia is developing vast farm estates across the archipelago — an area 10 times the size of neighbouring Singapore — to counter the nation’s reliance on imported food, President Joko Widodo said yesterday.
The announcement will anger environmental groups, who have warned such projects mostly exploit peatland areas and encourage forest fires blamed for the seasonal haze that has choked much of the region for the past two decades. The early phase has already started in North Sumatra, as well as central Kalimantan, on the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo.
Yup....and we are struggling with water supply. Wonder what is the MB doing about all the factories near our rivers. No more updates?
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