ENvironmental Sustainability IN INDONESIA
Environmental unsustainability continues to be one of Indonesia’s many crucial issues. With over 7 million acres of land available, corporations still continue to destroy healthy rainforests in to advance the production of palm oil. Palm oil plantations not only affect the living structure of orangutans, but there are also issues concerning the soil degradation, local people, and their rights. In the past twenty years According to the United Nations Environmental Program, “the charismatic red-haired apes will be virtually eliminated in the wild within two decades if current deforestation trends continue.” In Indonesia, an area of forest, the size of six football fields, is cut down every minute. This is a disgrace because there is plenty of empty space available for this source of demand. There is no purpose in destroying healthy area, when there is a large amount of free accessible space. In 1900, there were approximately 315,000 Orangutans in the wild, and now there are only about 60,000. It is important to not only improve the lives of Orangutans, but also of the Indonesian people because unhealthy living environments are the leading cause of child health deficiencies.