Jakarta administration will compensate for the felling of trees along Jl. Antasari and Jl. Casablanca, both in South Jakarta, by replacing each felled tree with 10 new ones, an official from the Jakarta Cemeteries and Parks Agency said Thursday.
Agency chief Catharina Suryowati said around 800 trees were cut down to make way for the construction of flyovers.
Catharina said her agency would work with the Jakarta Public Works Agency to replace the old Angsana trees, and planned to plant better quality trees with stronger trunks, such as mahogany, Tanjung, and Trembesi.
“We don't cut trees for nothing,” Catharina said jokingly, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
She added that her agency also planned to expand the area of green space in Jakarta.
“The acquisition of land for these green areas has not begun yet. We don’t have the funds right now,” she said, adding that her agency was still working to map locations for the green areas, which would mostly be established in densely populated areas.
Jakarta has around 6,500 hectares of green space, which constitutes around 9.8 percent of the city’s total area. This is far less than the required area of green space set out in the 2007 Law on Spatial Planning, which stipulates that at least 30 percent of cities should be set aside as green space.
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