Semarang, The Indonesia Post – Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo together with residents of Nyemoh Village, Bringin District, Semarang Regency, planted 1,500 tree seedlings to save critical land in the Tuntang watershed (DAS).
“Apart from saving critical land, planting these trees is also to prevent landslides and floods in the area,” said Ganjar in Semarang Regency, Saturday.
The PDI Perjuangan politician revealed that the tree planting was carried out simultaneously in Central Java and various regions in Indonesia.
In Central Java, he continued, a total of 15,000 tree seedlings were planted simultaneously in various regions.
“This is simultaneously throughout Indonesia. The first was that we were ruled by the General Chairperson (PDI Perjuangan) Ms. Megawati, today those in the executive, legislative, and party officials are all planting simultaneously throughout Indonesia. The Secretary of State was present here from the Regency, Perhutani was present, the TNI-Polri were also present, then the movement was carried out together in the hope that everyone would care,” he said.
According to Ganjar, the movement to plant tree seedlings simultaneously is a form of saving critical land, preventing watershed abrasion, river sedimentation to prevent landslides and floods.
“We hope that this simultaneity will be a manifestation of all of our duties. So if all parties care, there are cadres, those who become executives, those who become legislative, those who become structural move everything. We already have a program that is already running, so we just have to put it in. to be planted together,” he said accompanied by the Head of the Central Java Provincial Environment and Forestry Office, Widi Hartanto.
The area around the Tuntang Watershed in Nyemoh Village looks arid, even though the water in the river also flows to other areas such as Grobogan Regency, where a number of villages were flooded some time ago.
One of the causes of the flooding in Grobogan was the overflow from the Tuntang River which passed there and the Lusi River from Blora.
“So there are critical lands that we must encourage and at the same time we educate. This is next to the Tuntang River, if it is bare here, it will definitely be hit by heavy rains. eroded at the confluence of two river currents,” he said.
For the meeting area of the two streams, continued Ganjar, a solution had to be found so that the tree planting activity also involved the Pusdataru Service, the Environment and Forestry Service, the village head, and representatives of the Semarang Regency Government.
Ganjar added, the percentage of plants in forests, highlands and watersheds, namely 50 percent must be planted with perennials, 20 percent for MPTS, and 30 percent for social forestry. (mhn/bbs)
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