Pangkalpinang Mayor Zulkarnain Karim from the Sumatran province of Bangka Belitung has been given the Javanese nickname Wagiman not because of any link to the island but because of his green thumb.
Head of the city's environment agency, Bani Baehaki, says Wagiman is a Javanese acronym for a “tree-planting mayor”.
“We call him Wagiman to highlight his leading role in the city’s reforestation program,” Bani told Antara on Tuesday.
The agency will plant 60,000 seedlings of various tropical fruit trees, including rambutan, durian and cajuput, in the city’s 137 hectares of forest as part of a massive tree-planting program.
The agency has also planted 1,000 mangrove seedlings along Tanjung Bunga beach to rehabilitate the coastal area, which had been degraded due to tin mining exploration and massive coral reef poaching.
Bani called on the city's residents to stand behind Wagiman by protecting the forests and fore shores and by not littering.
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