REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BOGOR - Many Indonesian forests are in critical damage due to over exploitation, the Minister of Forestry, Zulkifli Hasan, said on Sunday. At least Indonesia needs 25 years to be green again.

Through his program of “planting a million trees”, Hasan is optimistic to defeat the analysis saying Indonesia needs hundred years to be green. This program urges all Indonesian citizens to plant four trees.

"We provide the seeds. We believe that we could ‘defeat’ some research in which estimated that Indonesia needs 195 years to be green," he said.

The ministry plans to release a decision on forest exploitation which prohibits any tree cutting in the forest. 

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