GEOG 185 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Suharto, Agribusiness, Pineapple
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Carbon bomb: indonesia"s failed mega rice project notes. They caught on fire, sparking flames in peatlands and forests across indonesia. Between 13 and 40% of global co2 emissions from fossil fuels. A dry el nino year that brought on a dought. Indonesian president suharto was overthrown and the asian economy was in crisis. Early 1990s, president suharto wanted to use central kalimantan"s peat swamps for javanese-style wet rice cultivation. The purpose of the project was to bolster. Indonesia"s developing food self-sufficiency to feed its 200 million citizens. Moreover, suharto wanted to use central kalimantan ( outerlands ) to offset declining rice production in java b/c java was losing rice paddies to industrial development. President suharto was convinced by a singapore-based agribusiness co. , pt. Sambu, that using the peatlands in kalimantan for wet-rice cultivation would work. The businessmen reasoned that because they were able to successfully grow commercial pineapples and coconuts in the peatlands of southeastern.
