Deforestation and the activities that lead to it are not the only culprits. Sijeruk village sits below a densely forested hill. The Center for International Forestry Research conservation group has said that instead of logging, exceptionally long and heavy downfalls, which saturated the forest soil until it was unable to absorb any more water, were responsible for the landslides. But both experts and environmentalists agree the loss of forest cover does humans harm. Of the 162 million hectares of forest in Indonesia today, the second largest tropical forest in the world after Brazil, 59 million hectares are damaged, endangering not only biodiversity but also the global ecosystem. Climate change and global warming are some of the indicators of the world’s disrupted ecosystem.
