City, IPB to regreen Jakarta

City, IPB to regreen Jakarta

JAKARTA: The city administration and the Bogor Institute of
Agriculture (IPB) will team up on various projects to beautify
and regreen the capital for the next five years.

"The IPB will help the city administration in maintaining city
parks and forests," IPB rector Ahmad Ansori Mattjik said after
meeting Governor Sutiyoso on Wednesday.

Ahmad said that the institute would assist with the planting
of tree seedlings and flowers at Monas (the National Monument
park), Central Jakarta.

"Governor Sutiyoso wants the park to be home to a variety of
birds. Unfortunately, there are no trees there that produce seeds
that they eat; that's why we plan to grow such trees."

The institute will also help the Jakarta Agriculture and
Forestry Agency to regreen the devastated mangrove forest in
Muara Angke, North Jakarta.

Agency head Peni Susanti also stated that her office would
carry out a feasibility study to transform protected mangrove
forest in Muara Angke into a tourism site in cooperation with
Singapore National Park. -- JP