Indonesia’s deforestation claims under scrutiny over ‘cherry-picked’ data

Indonesia’s deforestation claims under scrutiny over ‘cherry-picked’ data

JAKARTA — Researchers have called out the Indonesian government’s claim of having reduced deforestation by 90% over the past decade, pointing to cherry-picked data and a skewed baseline that paint an incomplete picture of the reality on the ground. In a recently published report, Norwegian and Indonesian researchers at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) compared the official data with other satellite-based deforestation data sets f…