Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya has reemphasized that Papua and West Papua remain permanent forest-rich provinces thanks largely to the legal backing provided by President Joko Widodo.

While global fire emissions reached unprecedentedly high levels in July and August this year, as recently announced by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), Indonesian palm oil and pulpwood concessions contributed close to 0% of these global records.