Report Ahead of the global Climate Change Meet here next week, a potentially controversial report, prepared by three forestry organisations, concludes that deals to counteract the carbon emissions of the smokestack industry could benefit more than just environment.

Available in English and Bhs. Indonesia

English: Since the expression ‘reinventing government’ in real terms means empowering the people, the Government need not in fact have too many more worries. If the people are empowered, then community problems become the affairs of the people themselves, and as such, the government burden need no longer be too great. However what is actually happening seems to be the opposite; the Government on the contrary is experiencing even more ‘headaches’.

Bhs. Indonesia: Sejak ada wacana reinventing government yang sejatinya adalah memberdayakan rakyat, sebenarnya pemerintah tidak perlu lagi terlalu pusing. Jika rakyat berdaya, masalah masyarakat jadi urusan rakyat sendiri. Dengan demikian, beban pemerintah seharusnya tidak terlalu banyak lagi. Namun yang terjadi ternyata sebaliknya, pemerintah malah tambahpusing.

Bambang Setiono, Researcher, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, West Java and E.G. Togu Manurung, Director, Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI), Jakarta. Within less than a month, the government issued two policies that favor forestry conglomerates. First, based on a proposal by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Financial Sector Policy Committee (FSPC) requested IBRA to restructure the debts owed by forestry sector companies in the lightest mode, or on the most generous terms.

Indonesia has been overzealous in proving its self-proclaimed tag as a country that is based on law. One indicator is the 500 or so overlapping and conflicting pieces of legislation within the forestry sector. Ironically, this has been partly responsible for the destruction of the country’s forests, rather than protecting them.

BOGOR (Bisnis): Sebagian besar perusahaan kehutanan dan pengolahan hasil hutan kayu di Indonesia tidak layak beroperasi karena kinerja keuangannya buruk sehingga terlilit utang. Menurut Direktur Jendral Center For International Forestry Research (Cifor) David Kaimowitz banyaknya perusahaan atau industri bidang kehutanan yang masuk Badan Penyehatan Perbankan Nasional (BPPN) merupakan indikasi buruknya kinerja keuangan dimaksud. "Perusahaan yang demikian ini seharusnya tidak lagi diberi kesempatan untuk mengelolaan hutan," katanya kemarin.

Each year, from February to March and August to October, the haze that disrupts social and economic activities in Indonesia also brings with it conflicting accusations of blame. The game of allocating blame for, the fires that cause haze repeats itself as regularly as the fires themselves.

SUMMARY: Indonesia’s forests continue to feel the pressure on them as large pulp and paper companies struggle to meet their supply needs through their own planted forests.