Preventing Sea Water Surface Increase, Jokowi Invites Mangrove Plant Fishermen

President Jokowi gave a speech at the 2023 LIKE Festival Peak in Jakarta, Monday (18/9/2023). (ANTARA/Indra Arief)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) invites fishermen and environmental activists to plant mangroves in coastal areas. According to him, this effort is to anticipate sea level rise due to climate change.

Jokowi said that sea level rise as a result of climate change has also affected small islands in the world.

Hot ice on the poles melts and sea level water rises. Our small island is affected, there are many small islands in the passive islands that are missing, be careful. Therefore, on the coast, fishermen, environmental activists invite them to plant mangroves again on our coast," he said at the Peak of the 2023 Environmental, Climate, Forestry, New Renewable Energy Festival (LIKE) in Jakarta, Monday, September 18, which was confiscated by Antara.

He explained that currently the threat of climate change is increasingly real, and has been felt by many countries.

This climate change can result in sea level rise, extreme weather, and landslides.

The President also explained about environmental damage that must be anticipated.

He advised environmental activists, traditional leaders, social forestry groups, extension workers, and other elements of society to reactivate forest rehabilitation.

"Repairs to forests, the government together with the community, environmental activists, starting later when the rainy season comes everyone grows trees, plant trees, plant trees," he said.

The government, he continued, is also carrying out various efforts to rehabilitate the environment in anticipation of the impact of climate change. These efforts, among others, build seed nursery facilities.

Near Jakarta, the government builds a nurseries in Rumpin, Bogor Regency, with a production capacity of six million seeds per year.

"Be careful, this environmental damage causes us to suffer a lot of landslides. Why do we open it in Rumpin because landslides occur in West Java," he said.

The government has also built a nursery in the new capital city in Nusantara, East Kalimantan, namely in Mentawir, North Penajam Paser, before building other infrastructure in the new capital city.

The government is also building a nursery in Denpasar, Bali, with a capacity of six million tree seedlings. Jokowi has also shown the seed nursery to the leaders of the country during the G20 Summit, Bali in 2022.

They (G20 leaders, ed.) are amazed by the nursery process there. That's just mangroves," said Jokowi.