Ketum PGI: Exploitation Of Excessive Nature Is An Ecological Endowment Threat

PGI Chairman Rev. Gomar Gultom

JAKARTA - Excessive natural exploitation has put humans on the threat of death, in the form of an ecological apocalypse, said PGI chairman Rev. Gomar Gultom.

He said this at the Second Grand Prayer Festival of the Sa River Festival and the Toraja Church, in the framework of 77 years of the Toraja Church, in Rantepao, Toraja, South Sulawesi, last Saturday, April 13, as quoted from the official website of PGI.

Rev. Gomar said, in church traditions, birthday celebrations like this, or commonly called Jubileum, in essence is a momentum to impose the arrival of the year of God's Rahmat, namely the release from poverty, free from disease and free from various fears of other sufferings.

The year of grace, he said, is not only applied to our church residents, not only to mankind, but also to the liberation of the universe, to water, land and air, to plants and animals, the main year of independence for the universe and all its contents.

"So the Sa River Festival and which was coupled at this jubileum moment, for me, is very precise, in the midst of our increasingly worrying natural conditions," he said.

According to Rev. Gomar, increased air and water pollution, increased quality and number of diseases, and natural resource struggles; all of them helped reduce the quality of our lives, which in turn brought us closer to the ecological apocalypse.

It is undeniable, he continued, the increasing use and exploitation of natural resources has caused environmental quality to decrease.

"We have forced nature to exceed the limits set by Allah when creating it. And of course, the ones who experience direct consequences are ourselves in the form of various forms of natural disasters such as floods and droughts that take turns," he said.

He said, we are the source of all these problems. Change to maintain the earth created by Allah which is delegated for us to try and maintain, we are even eroded and eroded. Kerakusan and inequality have concurrent humans towards the destruction of nature and civilization.