2. It is hard not to feel a sense of a tragedy in the making, and those Indonesians who have reached an income and education level where they can afford to think about the environment share this sense of being overwhelmed by global capitalism.
3. For a developing country like Indonesia, plugging into the global market often means a brutal ultimatum: Jobs or trees? You can't have both. This is globalization's dark side. There is a problem with unemployment, so any developer who can sell promises of employment will get support. Environmentalists get labeled as against employment and get treated as outsiders.
4. In developing countries environmental laws are rarely enforced and polluters can easily bribe inspectors.