Indonesia’s Uphill Battle against Dangerous Land Clearance

Jackson Ewing

Chapter 6 in Pollution Across Borders:Transboundary Fire, Smoke and Haze in Southeast Asia, 2018, pp 59-62 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: In mid-April 2016 Indonesian President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo announced a planned moratorium on new palm oil concessions. The following July, Jokowi held a ministerial meeting with Environment and Forestry, Trade, Industry, and Spatial Planning Ministers to take the initiative forward — combining these actions with a continuing 2011 moratorium on peatland and forest exploitation and a drive to unify the convoluted concession maps that have plagued Indonesian forest protection for decades…

Keywords: Transboundary Pollution; Air Pollution; Pollution; Haze; ASEAN Haze; SEA Haze; Environmental Economics; Externality; Slash and Burn; Palm Oil Plantation; Pulpwood Plantation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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