Indonesian state forester PT Perhutani is to spend US$211m planting 101 million trees on “abandoned” land in Java.

The trees, to be a mixture including teak, pine, mahogany and acacia, will reforest 101,000ha of 350,000ha of abandoned land by March 2003.

The scheme will include 54,000ha in east Java, 25,000ha in central Java and 22,000ha in west Java