Minister Of Environment Calls Lack Of Forest Covering Becomes A Large Flood In Bali

Minister of Environment and Forestry Hanif Faisol Nurofiq discussed the reasons for the landscape, one of the causes of the big floods in Bali, Tabanan, Saturday 13/9/2025. (Photo: ANTARA)

Less (minimous) forest cover is one of the causes of the massive floods that hit Bali. This was revealed by the Minister of Environment (LH), Hanif Faisol Nurofiq.

Therefore, said Hanif Faisol in Tabanan, Bali, Saturday, improvements need to be made to the spatial planning, especially from central to southern Bali as a route for river water flow.

Our landscape for Bali and above (the north) to Mount Batur has very small forest cover, less than 4 percent, so from 49 thousand hectares of the river basin, which has a cover of less than 1,200 hectares. This is very small, yes, the trees, so we have to change all the details of our landscape plan," he said, quoted from ANTARA, Saturday, September 13.

Minister of Environment also highlighted the issue of massive land conversion which caused a lack of water infiltration in Bali, but currently the ministry is still waiting for testing and mapping from the Governor of Bali.

The central government guarantees to continue to join the Bali Provincial Government and participate in law enforcement and strengthening environmental governance if needed, because Bali does get attention.

"The concrete steps we will mitigate, provide directions for a kind of strategic living study that must be a reference for the Bali Provincial Government and below it (supporting policies) we must do, then we will continue to explore things that cause strengthening environmental damage," said Hanif Faisol.

Minister of Environment also opened the option of a moratorium on development in Bali, because the human population in Bali is very high which must be adapted to its landscape.

He emphasized that the floods in Bali, especially Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar, and Jembrana as the most affected areas, were mainly caused by very high rainfall, even extreme on Tuesday (9/9).

In addition, the local government's efforts to solve waste turned out to still leave a lot of problems with the emergence of garbage that clogs the drainage.

"We continue to monitor several provincial policies, starting from banning bottled water, then reducing waste from upstream, limiting the use of single-use plastic, these are various kinds, if not supported we will all not be completed, we need to move all components," he concluded.