Indonesian Plane Went From No Flights to 132 in Less Than a Month
The mothballing adds another possible factor in the crash of the 26-year-old Boeing 737-500, which killed 62 people on Sriwijaya Air Flight 182.
Search and rescue personnel carrying a bag containing wreckage from Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 at a port in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday.Credit.Ulet Ifansasti for The New York Times
By Austin Ramzy and Dera Menra Sijabat
Published Jan. 13, 2021Updated Jan. 19, 2021
The aging plane flew during a heavy storm in a country with a long history of flight disasters. It had also been out of service for nine months.
After more than a decade of working toward qualifying for payments under the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions caused by Deforestation and Forest Degradation) scheme, Indonesia received its first results-based financial rewards last year.
REDD+, a policy initiative recognized under the U.N. Paris Agreement in 2015, was created as a way to provide incentives to conserve tropical forests and curb planet-warming greenhouse gases that are emitted when they are cut down.
Initially, it was conceived as a market-based means for industrialized countries to pay forest-rich countries for their emissions reductions and contributions to meeting overall global climate targets through financial credits.
Indonesia applied to receive REDD+ results-based payments (RBP) based on data illustrating its efforts to curb emissions under terms detailed in an Indonesia-Norway bilateral partnership and the GCF.
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