Prabowo: Education is Solution to Overpopulation and Environmental Degradation
Jakarta. Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto said during the fifth presidential debate on Saturday evening that overpopulation posed a threat to the environment, and that education was the solution.
"The problem of environmental destruction is due to the fact that the capacity of the Earth, the capacity of our territory, has been heavily burdened in dealing with the population boom," he said. "As such, in Indonesia, our beloved nation, each year we have an increase of 5 million new citizens. This means five million new mouths, for which we need to prepare food, we need to prepare all the facilities a new citizen needs. Five million each year. This is what is speeding up the process of environmental destruction. Also, with the lack of regulation or monitoring, this only speeds up environmental destruction.
"Our dilemma is how, if we do not increase growth — how do we create new jobs? So this is the dilemma. Growth must continue, but we need to handle environmental destruction."
Prabowo introduced a plan he called a "Strategy of Many Ways."
"Among other ways, through education, we can increase understanding about the relationship between environmental growth and the need to care for our environment. … We need to chase after economic growth. But education is something we need to push and something we need to develop."
Indonesians go to the polls on Wednesday to vote for a successor to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, whose second five-year term ends in October.
Posted by: "Sunny" <ambon@tele2.se>
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