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C JAVA TO PLANT 40 MILLION TREES IN 2009
Semarang, Indonesia, July 22 (ANTARA) - The Central Java provincial administration intends to plant 40 million trees this year under the "One Man, One Tree" program launched by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
"Our target is to plant 40 million trees this year and we have already begun to cultivate 5.6 million new trees," Central Java Forestry Office chief Sri Puryono K.S said on the sidelines of an event to familiarize the public with the One Man, One Tree program at the Rimba Graha building on Pahlawan street here on Wednesday.
Puryono said the One Man, One Tree movement was launched on February 1, 2009 and would run until December 31, 2009.
"Because it is the dry season at the moment, we have stopped planting trees for the time being but from October to December we will be planting trees again," Puryono said.
Asked about the availability of tree seedlings, he said 25 percent of the seedlings would be provided by the government and the rest by private companies and businessmen concerned about the environment.
"At present, we have 22.6 million seedlings from PT Perhutani and 16 million from other companies," Puryono said, adding that in 2008 the Central Java administration had planted 34 million trees.
Meanwhile, the chief of PT Perhutani's Unit I in Central Java, , Heru Siswanto, said he fully supported the One Man, One Tree program and consequently the company would provide 22 million seedlings for the program's implementation in the province.
"We have prepared 22 million seedlings to be planted during the rainy season from October to December this year," Siswanto said.
He said PT Perhutani had a reforestation program for 2010 that would begin to implemented this year.
Four years ago, he said, there were 120,000 hectares of barren lands in the Pemalang and Balupulang areas in Central Java but because of the continuous tree planting program, now only 12,400 hectares needed to be reforested.
"Our target is to plant 40 million trees this year and we have already begun to cultivate 5.6 million new trees," Central Java Forestry Office chief Sri Puryono K.S said on the sidelines of an event to familiarize the public with the One Man, One Tree program at the Rimba Graha building on Pahlawan street here on Wednesday.
Puryono said the One Man, One Tree movement was launched on February 1, 2009 and would run until December 31, 2009.
"Because it is the dry season at the moment, we have stopped planting trees for the time being but from October to December we will be planting trees again," Puryono said.
Asked about the availability of tree seedlings, he said 25 percent of the seedlings would be provided by the government and the rest by private companies and businessmen concerned about the environment.
"At present, we have 22.6 million seedlings from PT Perhutani and 16 million from other companies," Puryono said, adding that in 2008 the Central Java administration had planted 34 million trees.
Meanwhile, the chief of PT Perhutani's Unit I in Central Java, , Heru Siswanto, said he fully supported the One Man, One Tree program and consequently the company would provide 22 million seedlings for the program's implementation in the province.
"We have prepared 22 million seedlings to be planted during the rainy season from October to December this year," Siswanto said.
He said PT Perhutani had a reforestation program for 2010 that would begin to implemented this year.
Four years ago, he said, there were 120,000 hectares of barren lands in the Pemalang and Balupulang areas in Central Java but because of the continuous tree planting program, now only 12,400 hectares needed to be reforested.
