- It is unfair when we only blame the communities around the forest for causing forest degradation and deforestation, we must look back from 20 to 30 years ago that the presence of cooperation or permit holders such as Business Permits for Utilization of Timber Forest Products in Natural Forests, Plantation permits, mining permits are also part of the causes of climate change.
- When we blame each other the question is which axis has the heart and feelings to save that remains right?
- Communities around the forest, of course, must be accompanied by real action on how they can use the forest sustainably so that they can still eat and live from forest sources.
- Not only the theory with a formula that takes time to continue the Focus Group Discussion which does not touch the root of the problem, sometimes it is followed by absolute policies.
- Real action is placing the community as the top manager as the main actor and business actor in protecting the forest, of course by paying attention to their welfare as compensation for their sincerity to continue to care about the upright trees. One of the schemes that the government can provide space to the community is through social forestry schemes, forest farmer groups, forest women farmer groups. Therefore, it is imperative that local NGOs be empowered to assist social forestry because they know exactly what the community needs, they know exactly the character of the local community.
- be wise, when it gets a budget/grant from a donor agency to care for the forest and the remaining oxygen, by involving with local facilitators, local NGOs or local champions.
- The REED + story is not a new story but an old story where the action process with theoretical and bureaucratic processes must be accelerated so that we will not lose natural forests.
Sometimes many of us blame the people around the forest when they burn the fields.
Smoke is everywhere and then the people around the forest get accused. But once the weather is clear, oxygen is easily inhaled without smoke and clean water is sufficient, no one would like to thank the people who have kept the forest upright.
Baca Juga:“The Woman Destroyed”