Bali conference provides opportunity to show commitment to solving climate change issues

"The forests in Indonesia, covering total of 120.3 million hectares of land, are believed to have the potential to reduce emissions significantly" Ka`ban said.

But, he added, that in the meantime, the forests in Indonesia had been subjected to deforestation and degradation, which are also sources of carbon emissions as they released C02 into the atmosphere. This would be one of the topics to be taken up at the Bali conference.

In the restoration of normal forest conditions in Indonesia, actually many measures had already been taken such as mass forestation drives, and the eradication of illegal logging.