Deforesation and Flood, as The Environmental Damages in Indonesia

Indonesia is the biggest archipelago country in the world, because Indonesia has so many islands. It can reach millions islands. Indonesia has so many beautiful places that “tease”  many tourists from the nother country to visit Indonesia. Because of that, the places’ environment must be kept by us, Indonesian people. But, in fact, the beauty of Indonesia is decreasing day by day. So many things that can damage our environment. As the respond to this environment issues, people need to do some actions. What should we do?

As we have known before, our environment can be damaged by two factors, from the natural disaster and from human activities. From natural disasters, we can take earthquake dan volcanic eruption as an example. They are caused by the shiftin plates of our earth. Of course we know that the shifting can’t be predicted by human. But, most of environmental damage is caused by human activities. For example, deforestation that wildly done by some persons who are not responsible. They took the advantage from the trees or woods from the forests, but left the badlands. The badlands can be causing the disasters such as flood and land slide. The people’s safety around there is threatened by the disasters.

The more easy and simple example is so many people take out the trash not in the litter box. They threw the trash out to the roadway or the gutter around us. This is so dangerous, isn’t it? Because the trash can create so many diseases. And also the trash which clog the gutter can be causing the flood when the rainy season comes. Because there is no more catchment areas for the water.

From the examples that have been explained above, we didn’t just stay quiet watching the environmental damages keep going on. We must do some action, from the cope action to the prevent action. To cope the environmental damages, we can clean the gutter from the trash. So, the flood can be decreasing. For some persons who are not responsible, they must be given by some punishment from the government because they didn’t  obey the rules of environmental protection.

Not only cope action, we must do the prevent action. Such as, we can grow some plants or trees around our environment. We should take out the trash into the litter box. For some persons, they still can do the deforestation, but must be accompanied by the reforestation. The children must have much education about their environment, so they can keep the environment from the damages.

This is our earth, and Indonesia is our country, where we lived. So, we have a responsible to keep our environment from the damages. We should awake to keep our environment for our life later.

“Keep our environment from the damages, for our life in this earth !!”