No sooner do I mention the degreening of Indonesia than an example of it appears in my own backyard. On the way to school today, I noticed that a long strip of land that runs adjacent to a perimeter boundary of the Japanese International School is being stripped of trees. It is doubtless being made ready for some development and the formerly green and grassy area will be replaced with buildings and Bintaro's catchment area will shrink a little more. Amusingly, Bintaro is marketed as the garden suburb but its greenery is rapidly disappearing in the face of rampant greed. Land developers of course are the same the world over but in some countries there are constraints placed on them. Not here. It's a pity that I don't have a before as well as an after photo. The difference is quite dramatic.
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Hi Sean,
Tragic alright. Money talks - more so in Indonesia than in most other countries and so the developers continue to get away with it. Sad to see the destruction. Looks like the floods have hit really hard this time - when will they learn???
John
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