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International environmentalist organization of Greenpeace questioned Thursday the lacking of environment preservation commitment exposed by president and vice president hopefuls running in July 9 presidential election.
Greenpeace said that pairings run in the election, Joko Widodo- Jusuf Kalla and Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Radjasa, have not showed their targets and strategies in tackling forest protection, marine, climate change, environment preservation and pollution from hazardous chemical substance.
Given the fact on dire need of government's attention to rehabilitate the environment, head of Greenpeace Indonesia Longgena Ginting said that the two pairings were still relying on natural resources exploitation to support the nation's economy without promoting sustainability principles in their development strategies.
The two pairings, Longgena said that they were still relying on coals with Joko Widodo pairing regards coal as solution to national energy problem and Prabowo Subianto pairing suggests intensification of extractive industry, including coals to support the economy.
"We challenge the new government to set minimum target of 40 percent on using of renewable source by 2030. In this time of climate crisis, it's about the time for government to convert to clean, safer and renewable resources," Longgena said here.
Longgena said that the new government should develop investment using green chemistry innovation and clean production system to preserve the environment.
The environmentalist organization also criticized the two pairings' lack of attention on illegal fishing problem.
Greenpeace also said that the hopeful pairings do not demonstrate their care about zero deforestation in tackling carbon emission. Their concerns were merely on illegal logging issue that sometimes criminalized local indigenous people who greatly rely on the forest to run their lives.
"We hope that they would deliver their clean stance on environment issue in the July 5 debate on environment issue," Longgena said.
