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        "id": 1685374,
        "msgid": "iri-indonesia-launches-campaign-1776495050",
        "date": "2026-04-18 13:07:24",
        "title": "IRI Indonesia Launches Campaign",
        "author": "A.Syalaby Ichsan",
        "source": "REPUBLIKA",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "The Interfaith Rainforest Initiative (IRI) Indonesia has launched the \"No Forests, No Future\" campaign, a moral, interfaith movement aimed at strengthening the protection of tropical forests and indigenous communities across the country. This initiative marks the start of IRI Indonesia's third phase for 2025\u20132029 and seeks to broaden cross-sector collaborations in response to escalating threats from deforestation driven by plantations, mining, logging, and large-scale development. By leveraging religious values and collective commitments, the campaign addresses the moral dimensions of environmental conservation, highlighting how forests sustain water, climate stability, and indigenous livelihoods amid Indonesia's predominantly faith-based society.",
        "content": "<p>REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA \u2014 The Interfaith Rainforest Initiative (IRI)\nIndonesia has launched the \u201cNo Forests, No Future\u201d campaign as a moral,\ninterfaith movement to strengthen the protection of tropical forests and\nindigenous communities in Indonesia. This launch marks the beginning of\nthe third phase of IRI Indonesia for the period 2025\u20132029, while also\nexpanding cross-sector collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, IRI revealed that the \u201cNo Forests, No Future\u201d\ncampaign is not merely ceremonial but serves as a space for\nconsolidating ideas and shared commitments in response to the increasing\npressures on forests. IRI Indonesia\u2019s National Facilitator, Hening\nParlan, stated that the campaign emerges as a response to the rising\nthreats to tropical forests over the past few decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForests are not just landscapes. They safeguard the water we drink,\nstabilise the climate, and support the lives of indigenous communities.\nIf forests disappear, the future vanishes with them,\u201d she said during\nthe campaign launch in Jakarta on Friday (17\/4\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>According to her, past forest protection efforts have tended to\nemphasise technocratic approaches, while moral and value-based\ndimensions have not been fully maximised. With more than 90 per cent of\nIndonesia\u2019s population embracing religion, Hening believes that a\nvalues-based approach has great potential to foster collective\nawareness.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of this campaign is inseparable from the ongoing pressures\non Indonesia\u2019s forests due to plantation expansion, mining, logging, and\nlarge-scale development. Deforestation leads to the loss of forest\ncover, accelerates the climate crisis, and threatens the sustainability\nof communities\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n<p>Representative of the IRI Indonesia advisory board, M. Ali Yusuf,\nstated that the strengths of religion, indigenous communities,\nacademics, and civil society organisations need to be united in a single\njoint movement. \u201cIRI wants to accelerate the protection of tropical\nforests by uniting forces that have previously operated independently,\u201d\nhe emphasised.<\/p>\n<p>Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Agriculture at Universitas\nNasional, Fachruddin Mangunjaya, views the root of forest damage\nproblems as lying in human behaviour. He emphasised that religious\nvalues such as prohibitions against destruction, encouragement to share,\nand self-control can serve as important foundations in preserving the\nenvironment.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/iri-indonesia-launches-campaign-1776495050",
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