PALANGKA RAYA - The Environmental Service (DLH) of Palangka Raya City cooperates with business actors in an effort to prevent environmental damage due to forest and land fires (karhutla).
"Among the involvement in the anticipation is by placing various warnings and invitations to prevent forest and land fires during the dry season," said Head of the Environmental Protection Agency for Palangka Raya City, Achmad Zaini, in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan Province, Monday, June 13.
The information installation is centered at strategic points that become the center of crossings or community activities.
Other participations that can also be carried out by business actors include direct education to the community, said Zaini, helping provide extinguishing equipment for people in forest and forest fire-prone areas or facilitating efforts to anticipate forest and land fires.
He explained that among the participating businesses, such as Bank BTN, Bank BCA, Wira Toyota Profitamas, Hotel Neo, Hotel Aquarius, Delta Abadi Sentosa Suzuki, Hotel Bahalap and several other business actors.
"We also continue to make prevention efforts by involving business actors. Currently there are 40 warnings installed at various points in the City of Palangka Raya," he said.
He hopes that collaboration with elements of the community, private sector and business actors can be further enhanced so that efforts to anticipate forest and land fires programmed by the government will be maximized.
On the other hand, in minimizing the potential for land and forest fires during the dry season, DLH "Beautiful City" also encourages the community to carry out the Land Clearing Movement without Burning (PLTB).
Zaini said, through a circular issued by the mayor, all people of Palangka Raya City in carrying out land clearing and clearing activities are not allowed to be burned, either intentionally or unintentionally.
Then, based on the Antara report, carrying out the Land Clearing Movement without Burning during the dry season for everyone who continues to carry out land clearing and clearing activities.
Regional Apparatus Organizations (OPD), sub-district and kelurahan parties will assist and supervise the implementation of the PLTB Movement and carry out socialization to the community.
He said that some of the land in the Palangka Raya City area is in the form of peat, so there is a need for alternative land management that can be done other than by burning.
How to clear land according to DLH Palangka Raya, namely manually or using technology. This method is more profitable because the remnants of land clearing can be used to make fertilizer.
"Thus, land clearing and management without burning can be integrated with the aim of efficiency and optimization," he concluded.
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