The Green Revolution Movement In South Kalimantan Shows Positive Results, As Of Today, 168 Thousand Hectars Of Critical Fields Have Been Rehabilitated

South Kalimantan Provincial Secretary Roy Rizali Anwar. (ANTARA)

BANJARBARU - More than 168 thousand hectares of critical land in South Kalimantan have been successfully rehabilitated by the local government through the green revolution movement launched in 2018.

"Alhamdulillah, we have been able to rehabilitate more than 168 thousand hectares of forest and critical land thanks to the hard work of all parties supporting the green revolution movement", said South Kalimantan Provincial Secretary, Roy Rizali Anwar, in Banjarbaru as quoted by Antara, Thursday, July 7.

Critical land is a term used to describe the condition of an area of land that has been degraded so that the area cannot carry out its functions.

Furthermore, Roy continued, the green revolution movement that was echoed by the Governor of South Kalimantan Sahbirin Noor by managing and reforesting critical lands proved revolutionary.

Not only at the provincial and district or city levels, but all institutions and representatives of the ministry's technical implementing units in the regions, including all levels of society, are mobilized to plant trees together.

"So this program is a massive movement to plant trees. Everyone can give charity, even if only one tree seed is planted in the yard of the house", said Roy.

He also emphasized that South Kalimantan has never remained silent as part of the island of Kalimantan which is the lungs of the world with the largest forest area in Indonesia. Every effort to prevent climate change and environmental damage continues.

The construction of an Indonesian tropical rain forest park in the South Kalimantan provincial government office area in Banjarbaru also received appreciation from President Joko Widodo when he visited some time ago.

In fact, the Head of State has ordered a tropical rainforest park like the one in South Kalimantan to be built in the National Capital Region (IKN) of Nusantara in East Kalimantan.

"It is an honor for South Kalimantan to be a model. Even the president wants up to 70 percent of the IKN area to be covered with tropical rainforest gardens", said Roy.

Based on data from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, South Kalimantan's forest area is approximately 1,664,000 hectares and 950,800 hectares of which are protected and production forest areas.