JAKARTA, Oct 8 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesia will replant 600,000 hectares of mangrove areas in the next three years, said the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investment Affairs.
“Our damaged mangrove areas cover nearly one million hectares. Our target in the next three years is (to replant) 600,000 hectares through this programme,” Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said, at the virtual launch of the Labour Intensive National Economic Recovery Programme through the Coral Reef Restoration.
Pandjaitan said that, replanting mangrove areas would have a broad impact on the trade of carbon emissions or known as carbon credit among countries.
Indonesia has 75-80 percent of the world’s carbon credits, from forests, mangroves, peat, seaweed and coral reefs.
Currently, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry is preparing a format, so that Indonesia can sell carbon emissions.– NNN-ANTARA
