Background

Indonesia has benefited greatly from their vast natural rainforests but it came at a devastating price because millions of acres of rainforests were cut down. About 85 % of pollution in Indonesia comes from cutting down trees making Indonesia the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Those forests of Indonesia have helped the nation's economic growth immensely but all those tropical forests were turned into paper, lumber, and hardwood furniture. Krisdomo, the head of the Forest Stakeholders Association in Indonesia says that although a lot of forests have been destroyed, it has not benefited the local people and they still live in poverty and around 150,000 hectares of forest were destroyed by poor villagers trying to survive.