Subulussalam Prioritizes River Restoration and Controlling Palm Oil Expansion

Apart from controlling palm oil expansion, the issues studied include protecting wildlife habitat, handling floods and river pollution, equal distribution of waste services, and strengthening residents' livelihoods.

These issues are planning priorities. The source's information does not specify the size of the area to be restored, targets for controlling plantation expansion, or the location of each program implementation.

Protection of ecological areas is an option

The consultation forum agreed on the Transformative Scenario as the main choice for the direction of the Subulussalam RPPLH. This approach emphasizes protecting areas of high ecological value, limiting the use of destructive natural resources, restoring environmental quality, and distributing development benefits.

Gadjah Mada University environmental expert, Prof. Luthfi Muta'ali, also provided input regarding ecoregion characteristics and determining priority areas for handling.

The RPPLH technical material currently contains initial formulations in the form of 12 regional policies, 29 strategies and 79 indicative programs. This formulation will still be refined, including regarding implementers, priority locations, alignment between programs and performance indicators.

Thus, the development direction agreement still requires translation into a program that has clear targets and measures of success.