File photo of smoke covering the forest during fires in Kapuas regency near Palangka Raya in Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia, Sepr 30, 2019. JAKARTA: Indonesia has received an injection of cash from the United Nation's Green Climate Fund to help reduce carbon emissions and tackle forest fires at a time when the country has had to scale back spending in the area due to COVID-19 budget pressures.
Fires, often set to clear land for palm oil plantations in the world’s top producer of the commodity, were the most damaging in years in 2019.Between January and July this year around 64,000ha of land has been burned, compared with 137,000ha over the same period last year, according to ministry data.
Southeast Asia's biggest economy aims to slash carbon emissions by 29 per cent by 2030 on its own, or by 41 per cent with international assistance.
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