Indonesia and Brazil to co operate on bio-fuels and education

This is an encouraging article from the Jakarta Post.

Encouraging because of the inclusion of education. Both governments look like they are willing and at least trying to take positive steps to solve global environmental problems .

With education there can be a sensible transfer of knowledge. In this case Brazil has developed technology for bio-fuel and can teach Indonesia how to use it properly and effectively. A step in the right direction.

A big problem in Indonesia these days is the structure of the legal system and it’s inability to uphold certain laws. especially those concerning the environment, protection of forests ect.

When Bio-Fuel became the ‘buzz’ word for idle entrepreneurs in Indonesia about 5 years ago, there was a rush on buying up land for plantations. It was a double-whammy-danger disaster because rich conglomerates with a lot of money power were able to assert themselves as ‘environmental do – gooders’ “We are helping to replace petrol and other green house nasties” . Their actions though are purely motivated by greed. There is a total disregard for the environment – possibly due to lack of education and understanding of what ‘environment’ actually even means.

I’m not much of a fan of politics and I don’t want to risk sounding like a xenophobe making allegations without having facts to back them up. I do see a lot of ‘interesting’ things though so I aim to use this blog the same way as one might jot down in a journal what they see. I’ll leave the facts up to the fact finders.

Such as this inspiring blogger ;

Click on the pic to go to the link.

Celsias looks like an interesting group. Can they make an impact on developing nations and their governments though. I joined today to find out. I’ll keep me posted.

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