Jokowi Invites Communities To Plant As Many Trees As Possible In Jakarta

Screenshots - President Joko Widodo gave a speech at the Peak of the Environmental, Climate, Forestry, New Renewable Energy (LIKE) 2023 Festival in Jakarta, Monday (18/9/2023). (ANTARA/Indra Arief)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) invites people to plant as many trees as possible in Jakarta to reduce air pollution levels.

"I invite all of us to jointly rehabilitate forests, plant as many trees as possible in our environment. Moreover, in Jakarta in DKI Jakarta, the trees are lacking, there are many vehicles, there are pollution," said President Jokowi at the Peak of the Environmental, Climate, Forestry, New Renewable Energy (LIKE) 2023, reported by ANTARA, Monday, September 18.

Jokowi said that currently many people in Jakarta are coughing. He also appealed to bicycle users to use masks to reduce the risk of being exposed to pollution.

"Including those who ride bicycles, be careful, when cycling, wear masks," said Jokowi.

According to Jokowi, the government has also carried out various efforts to rehabilitate the environment in anticipation of the impact of climate change. These efforts, among others, build seed nursery facilities. Near Jakarta, the government is building a nurseries in Rumpin, Bogor Regency, with a production capacity of 6 million seeds per year.

"Be careful, this environmental damage causes us to suffer a lot of landslides. Why do we open it in Rumpin because landslides occur in West Java," he said.

The government is also building a nursery in the new capital city in Nusantara, East Kalimantan, namely in Mentawir, Penajam Paser Utara.

In addition, the government has also built a nursery in Denpasar, Bali, with a capacity of 6 million tree seedlings. Jokowi has also shown the seed nurseries in Denpasar to state leaders during the G20 Summit, Bali, in 2022.

"They (G20 leaders) are amazed by the nursery process there. That's just mangroves," said Jokowi.