Unproven2025-12
What is circulating
“Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni told the DPR on 4 December 2025 that deforestation in 2025 fell 23.1 percent nationally, including 10.04 percent in Aceh, 13.98 percent in North Sumatra and 14 percent in West Sumatra.”
Claimed by Raja Juli Antoni, Forestry Minister · official statement
The facts
The figures come from internal ministry data up to September 2025 that had not been published for independent checking. The latest public data, the ministry's 2024 forestry statistics, show net deforestation in the three provinces rising in 2024 compared with 2021 to 2022, and nationally reaching 175,437.75 hectares in 2024 against 104,032.5 hectares in 2021 to 2022.