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Indonesian President calls for new attitudes to the nation's forests
President Megawati Sukarnoputri has called on Indonesians to recognise past shortcomings in forestry management and launch a renewal to protect the country's fast-dwindling jungles.
Addressing the third annual Forestry Congress, she says it's time for change after years of rampant logging which has resulted in the spread of bare land and damage to the ecosystem.
She says that whatever the reasons, the damage conveys a message that there is something wrong in the way forests are managed.
The Environmental Investigation Agency says there were years of rapacious deforestation under former dictator Suharto.
The World Bank says Indonesian forests were reduced by an annual average of some 1.5 million hectares between 1985 and 1997. By December 1999, Indonesia had only some 20 million hectares of forests left.
10/26/01 2:13:47 AM | ABC Radio Australia News
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