Residents outraged over government's controversial plan to convert millions of acres of land for different use: 'If we look at what's happening...'

Residents outraged over government's controversial plan to convert millions of acres of land for different use: 'If we look at what's happening...'

The Indonesian government has come up with a plan to turn acres of forest into food and energy estates, which it says will rehabilitate degraded forestland, shore up food stability, and prevent deforestation. However, critics and environmental groups are concerned about the plan, specifically the part that involves millions of acres of protected forestland. They say that creating food and energy estates there would cause degradation, deforestati…