JAKARTA (AFP) - environmentalists said Friday a moratorium awaited on forestry operations in Indonesia, part of a climate agreement with the Norway $ 1 billion, is a "disaster" for forests and do little to combat global warming.
Indonesia banned logging in primary forests bogs two years clearing greenhouse gas emissions Thursday under an agreement announced in Oslo in 2010 to reduce while protecting the rich biodiversity.
But environmentalists are skeptical if the moratorium expected save any important forests that were not already protected, or to make any reduction in the massive carbon footprint of the archipelago.
"We are very disappointed." We are concerned because it covers only the primary forests and bogs, "Greenpeace Indonesia Bustar Maitar said forest activist."
He said the moratorium must also protect woodlands defined as "natural forest", but these were left at the mercy of the logging companies.
Chris Lang, author of REDD-monitor blog following efforts to reduce deforestation greenhouse gas emissions, said the moratorium was a "disaster for the Indonesia?" "s forests, indigenous peoples and local communities".
He said that the Decree of moratorium announced by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono late Thursday — five months after it is due to be in place - contained "gaping".
There are exceptions for concessions existing logging and those who only approval in principle, as well as "national development" projects such as geothermal power plants and major food crops.
Green say groups forests covered by these concessions store large quantities of carbon and contain species habitats endangered orangutans and the Sumatra Tigers.
The moratorium applies to about 88 million hectares (217.5 million acres) of primary forest and bogs, but Maitar stated that, according to Greenpeace maps areas covered actually 104 million hectares.
Elfian Effendi, Executive Director of forest policy analysis group Greenomics, said the moratorium "still creates potential for the Indonesia to destroy its natural forests.
The regulations were the subject of intense lobbying industry of pulp, paper and palm oil, which has tried to limit the scope of the moratorium while protecting their large logging concessions.
Presidential Adviser on climate change Agus Purnomo told journalists logging would be prohibited in the "which have not been affected by humans and forests where no there was no activity before concession".
"Indonesia has been on the right track towards a prosperous and sustainable future, and will not return to the practices of development past that harm the environment at the expense of future generations", he said.
The moratorium is a national program to combat climate change through a system placed called to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD).
REDD promises to slow down the release of gases greenhouse by the destruction of the forests and carbon-dense peatlands with rich nations to pay emerging countries preserve their jungles and woods.
Rampant deforestation is one of the main reasons, the Indonesia is the third largest emitter of gases greenhouse behind the United States and China.
The Indonesian Government has set targets to reduce its gas emissions greenhouse of 26 percent while at the same time doubling production by 2020 palm oil. This is already the most large exporter palm oil.
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