Antara News, Saturday, July 24, 2010 03:49 WIB
Denpasar, Bali (ANTARA News) - The tourist resort province of Bali will in the coming years firmly uphold the law on the environment, Head of Bali`s Environment Agency (BLH) AA Alit Sastrawan said.
"In our efforts to realize the program to make Bali a Green Province which as launched by the local government, the law on the environment should be firmly upheld," Alit said here on Friday.
He said his office was now preparing legal frameworks, including draft bylaws so that later enforcement of the law would in real terms protect all stakeholders in the environment.
Alit explained that after all the legal frameworks had been made they had to be popularized to the people so that the "Bali Green Province` program would run in line with the interests of the people.
"We will popularize it first before we take firm actions to enforce the law," Alit said.
Earlier, Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika said that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono fully supported Bali`s initiative to become the first "green" province in Indonesia.
"We have also received expressions of support from various parties, including the director of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) in Bangkok who will be visiting Bali in the near future," Made Mangku Pastika said on Tuesday.
The governor who attended a workshop on Bali Green Province which involved various elements of Bali`s community, said turning Bali into a green, healthy, beautiful and clean province would not be easy.
However, he was confident that with the high commitment of and consistent hard work by regional government officials at all levels, and the cooperation of local religious and community leaders, the dream to turn Bali into a green province would be achieved.
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