Indonesia's forests are continuing to suffer from growing deforestation despite government pledges

Mar 27, 2018

An aerial view of deforestation at Indonesia's Sumatra island, August 5, 2010. Indonesia and Australia launched a A$30 million project to fight deforestation in Sumatra as part of efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and boost a planned forest-carbon trading scheme on March this year. Indonesia, like Brazil, is on the front line of efforts to curb deforestation that is a major contributor to mankind's greenhouse gas emissions that scientists blame for heating up the planet. REUTERS/Beawiharta (INDONESIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY BUSINESS)

Logging is still a problem for the world’s third-largest expanse of tropical forest. Image: REUTERS/Beawiharta

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