MANGROVE FOREST AREA

Mangrove forest atmosphere on the north coast of Muara Karang, Tangerang District, Banten, Wednesday (2/10). Daniel Murdiyarso, senior researchers from the Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor) emphasized, in the past 15 -20 years, the Indonesian mangrove forest area is still about 8 million hectares but currently estimated to stay 2.5 million hectares. ANTARA PHOTO/Lucky.R/Koz/mes/13.