SEMARANG - Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo together with residents of Nyemoh Village, Bringin District, Semarang Regency, planted 1,500 tree seedlings to save critical land in the Tuntang river basin (DAS).
"In addition to saving critical land, planting trees is also to prevent landslides and flooding in the area," said Ganjar, quoted by Antara, in Semarang Regency, Saturday, January 28.
The PDI-P politician revealed that the planting of this tree was carried out simultaneously in Central Java and various regions in Indonesia.
In Central Java, he continued, there were a total of 15,000 tree seedlings planted simultaneously in various regions.
"This is simultaneously throughout Indonesia. The first thing we are ordered by the General Chairperson (PDI Perjuangan) of Mrs. Megawati, today the executive, legislative, and party administrators are all planting simultaneously throughout Indonesia. The Regional Secretary is here from the Regency, Perhutani is present, the TNI-Polri are also present, then the movement is carried out together with the hope that everyone will care," he said.
According to Ganjar, the movement to plant tree seedlings simultaneously is a form of saving critical land, preventing watershed abrasion, sedimentation of rivers to prevent landslides and floods.
"We hope this simultaneousness is a manifestation of our duties. So if all parties care, there are cadres who become executives, who become legislatures, structurally move everything. We already have a program that is already running, we just need to enter it to be planted together," he said accompanied by the Head of the Central Java Provincial Environment and Forestry Service Widi Hartanto.
Areas around the Tuntang watershed in Nyemoh Village look arid, even though the water in the river also flows to other areas such as Grobogan Regency, which some time ago a number of villages were flooded.
One of the causes of flooding in Grobogan is the overflow from the Tuntang River which passes there and the Lusi River from the direction of Blora.
"So there are critical lands that we must encourage as well as educate. This is next to the Tuntang River, if it is scattered here, it will definitely be beaten by heavy rain, sedimentation will go there, so earlier residents said, Mr. Musala is dangerous, SD is dangerous because the soil is eroded at the meeting of two rivers," he said.
For the two-stream meeting area, Ganjar continued, a solution must be found so that the tree planting activity also involves the Pusdaru Service, the Environment and Forestry Service, village heads, and representatives of the Semarang Regency Government.
Ganjar added that the percentage of plants in the forest, highlands, and watersheds, namely 50 percent, must be planted with hard plants, 20 percent MPTS, and 30 percent planted for social forestry.
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