In Front Of Foreign Ambassadors, President Jokowi Ensures That The Private Sector Prepares Nursery Centers To Reduce Land Damage

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) invites ambassadors from friendly countries to visit the Rumpin Modern Nursery (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) will force the private sector to participate in setting up a nursery center to reduce land damage and improve the environment.

"I will also insist that all palm oil companies, mining companies also prepare nursery-nursery like this so that improvements will also occur in the environment where the mining is located, where the oil palm plantation is," said President Jokowi at the Modern Nursery. Rumpin in Rumpin District, Bogor, Antara, Friday, November 19.

Present at the nursery was British Ambassador to Indonesia Owen Jenkins, United States Ambassador to Indonesia Sung Yong Kim, Canadian Ambassador to Indonesia Cameron MacKay, European Union Ambassador to Indonesia Vincent Piket, and World Bank Country Director Satu Kahkonen.

"We will make in the next 3 years, approximately 30 like this from the government," added the President. The purpose of establishing the nursery center is to reduce environmental damage upstream.

"We hope that in January (2022), these seeds will start to come out to be planted in places that are prone to flooding, frequent landslides, which require rehabilitation for critical lands," said the President.

President Jokowi also showed a number of seeds that have been developed at the nursery, including acacia, sengon, eucalyptus, teak, and mahogany seedlings.

"We want to show that Indonesia is serious in dealing with the impacts of climate change and we show that this is a nursery center which can produce approximately 12 million seeds a year," said the President.

At the Rumpin Modern Nursery, the President and the ambassadors will inspect a number of facilities such as the germination house area, production house area, to water and sediment pools.

The Rumpin Seed and Nursery Center stands on an area of 159.58 hectares consisting of a seedling zone, a community management zone, a training zone, and a business development corridor zone with a production capacity of around 16 million seedlings.