EDITORIAL
Restore Watershed Function
According to 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, “Human creativity can overcome many things. But we must be able to control it to reap the benefits.”
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One of the residential clusters that is often hit by flooding from the Pengkol River is the Dinar Indah Housing Complex, Tembalang District, Semarang City, Central Java, Sunday (19/2/2023).
It seems that Yunus has witnessed the negative effects of uncontrolled human capabilities. On a global scale, the entire world is threatened by rising temperatures and climate change. On a local scale, flash floods and landslides instantly destroy property and lives.
Indonesia is not free of such humanitarian disasters. As a country with extraordinary natural wealth, Indonesia is like a coin: There is abundance on one side and, if resources are not managed properly, disaster on the other. This is the fact we are facing today.
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