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Pandawara Group
, a group of young environmental activists from Bandung invites the Indonesian people to jointly buy
forest
which is threatened with conversion to oil palm plantations or industrial land.
The idea was pitched via an Instagram post right in the midst of flash floods and landslides in Sumatra which were linked to massive deforestation.The post also stated ‘
Come on, first hit
‘ via the donation link in the account biography.
”
I was daydreaming, suddenly I thought about what if the United Indonesian Community donated to buy forests so they wouldn’t be converted into forests.
,” wrote Pandawara via his Instagram account @pandawaragroup, Thursday (4/12).
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This proposal immediately went viral and received a flood of public support, one of which was the readiness to contribute IDR 1 billion from musician Denny Caknan.
A number of netizens from various circles also admitted that they were ready to distribute donations without a minimum nominal limit as a form of collective concern over the increasingly severe hydrometeorological disasters of floods and landslides.
Pandawara is a group consisting of five young people, Ikhsan Destian, Rafly Pasha, Agung Permana, Gilang Rahma, and Muhammad Rifqi Sadulloh, which started from a small action to clean up river waste in Bandung since 2022.
Now the group has developed into a national movement to clean up extreme locations such as polluted rivers and damaged beaches.
The name ‘Pandawara’ is a combination of ‘Pandawa’ and ‘wara’ (good news in Sundanese), reflecting their spirit as bearers of positive change amidst the environmental crisis.
Previously, Hatma Suryatmojo, UGM Researcher in Forest Hydrology and Watershed Conservation, revealed the ecological sin behind the flash floods that hit Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra.
According to Hatma, the flash flood disaster at the end of 2025 is not an isolated event.He said that experts assess this phenomenon as part of a recurring pattern of hydrometeorological disasters which have increased in the last two decades due to a combination of natural and human-made factors.
Hatma stated that massive deforestation had taken place in many upstream areas of Sumatra.
For example, in Aceh, he continued, until 2020 around 59 percent of the province’s area or ±3.37 million hectares was still natural forest.However, data compiled by local BPS and environmental institutions shows that Aceh lost more than 700 thousand hectares of forest in the 1990-2020 period.
North Sumatra is also no less worrying.Hatma explained that the province’s forest cover will remain at around 29 percent of the land area or ±2.1 million hectares in 2020.
The Batang Toru ecosystem in Tapanuli, which Hatma said is the last bastion of North Sumatra’s forests, is now also being pushed by human activity.
Degraded due to the rise of concessions and company activities, ranging from illegal logging, clearing plantations, to gold mining.fragmented and stressed, forests have lost most of their ecological functions as rain control and flood protection.
The high rate of deforestation is reflected in West Sumatra.In 2020, this province was recorded as having a forest proportion of around 54 percent of its area of ±2.3 million hectares.Local Walhi noted that during 2001-2024, this province lost around 320 thousand hectares of primary forest and a total of 740 thousand hectares of tree cover which includes primary and secondary forests.
Hatma added, in 2024 alone deforestation in West Sumatra will even reach 32 thousand hectares.Much of the remaining forest there is on the steep slopes of Bukit Barisan, so when it decreases, the risk of landslides and flash floods increases.
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