REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PEKANBARU — Peneliti dari Pusat Riset Kehutanan Internasional (CIFOR) Prof Dr Herry Purnomo meminta pemerintah untuk mewaspadai motif politik lahan jelang pemilihan kepala daerah. Ia mengungkapkan bahwa hal itu bisa memicu penguasaan kawasan secara ilegal dan menyebabkan kebakaran hutan dan lahan (karhutla).

Pekanbaru, IDN Times – Peneliti dari Pusat Riset Kehutanan Internasional atau CIFOR, Herry Purnomo meminta, agar pemerintah waspada dengan adanya motif politik lahan jelang pemilihan kepala daerah (Pilkada). Menurut Herry, hal tersebut bisa memicu penguasaan kawasan secara ilegal dan menyebabkan kebakaran hutan dan lahan (karhutla).

TRIBUNPEKANBARU.COM, PEKANBARU – Kebakaran hutan dan lahan (Karhutla) yang terjadi di Provinsi Riau seakan menjadi masalah tahunan yang tak kunjung tuntas, untuk memahami dinamika ekonomi, sosial, dan politik penyebab Kebakaran hutan dan lahan, Cifor (Center for Intemational Forestry Research) telah melakukan serangkaian riset selama satu setengah tahun terakhir di Provinsi Riau, sehingga dapat menemukan komoditas rekomendasi untuk mendukung penghidupan berkelanjutan bebas asap.

Pekanbaru (ANTARA) – Pusat Riset Kehutanan Internasional atau CIFOR mengungkapkan hasil riset lapangan di Provinsi Riau, yang menunjukan bahwa masyarakat di akar rumput yang berprofesi sebagai petani membutuhkan contoh nyata agar meninggalkan kebiasaan membuka lahan gambut dengan membakar yang kerap menimbulkan kebakaran hutan dan lahan (karhutla) dan bencana asap.

The warning signs are visible on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. It’s the heart of the dry season, and drought — accentuated by a moderate El Niño — is sparking fears of a repeat of 2015, when the climate pattern that leads to above-normal sea-level temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean contributed to devastating fires. The blazes charred 2.6 million hectares of land, emitted more daily carbon dioxide than the entire U.S. economy and left millions sick from a haze that spread across Southeast Asia. But this year there’s something different — something that Indonesia is counting on and that the world will closely watch.

INDONESIA kembali dihadapkan dengan masalah kebakaran hutan dan lahan (karhutla). Pemerintah sudah melakukan beragam cara untuk memadamkan kebakaran yang tersebar di sejumlah daerah di Indonesia sehingga masyarakat tidak lagi menjadi korban paparan asap kebakaran. 

Berdasarkan data dari Direktorat Jenderal Penegakan Hukum Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan (KLHK), sudah ditetapkan lima perusahaan oleh penyidik KLHK hingga Sabtu (21/9). Padahal, korporasi yang memimiliki izin konsensi memiliki peran penting. Bila mereka tidak sanggup, peneliti senior Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Prof Dr Herry Purnomo menyarankan pemerintah mencabut konsesi mereka. 

Poor law enforcement, corruption and scant government funding contributed to recurrent agricultural fires that have ravaged large swathes of forest in Indonesia and engulfed parts of the country and its neighbors with noxious smoke and ash, experts said Friday.

Using fires to clear land is illegal and punishable by up to 10 years under Indonesia’s 1999 law on the environment, but local leaders often turned a blind eye to the practice, said Herry Purnomo, a scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

The amazon is not the world’s only smouldering rainforest, alas: fires are also raging in the jungles of Indonesia, blanketing much of South-East Asia in thick smoke. Some 3,300 square kilometres on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo have gone up in flames. The government has deployed more than 9,000 people and 52 aircraft to fight the fires. Indonesia and neighbouring Malaysia are also trying to quench the flames and clear the haze they produce by seeding clouds. But containing the infernos is even harder than usual because of dry weather, which has become more common as the climate changes.

The haze is thought to have caused more than 200,000 respiratory infections and has prompted more than 1,500 schools in Malaysia alone to close. The smoke has been thick enough to disrupt air traffic. The president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, says he is praying for rain.

Poor law enforcement, corruption and scant government funding contributed to recurrent agricultural fires that have ravaged large swathes of forest in Indonesia and engulfed parts of the country and its neighbors with noxious smoke and ash, experts said Friday.

Using fires to clear land is illegal and punishable by up to 10 years under Indonesia’s 1999 law on the environment, but local leaders often turned a blind eye to the practice, said Herry Purnomo, a scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

Wildfires are raging in the region and tempers are flaring. 

Ministers from Indonesia and Malaysia have been crossing swords over which country is responsible for the haze that has turned skies grey, forced schools to close and people to wear masks outdoors.