Youths in South Sumatra have been encouraged to take part in efforts to replant degraded forests through a mobile application that crowdsources data on land use change across the country. Hidayah Hamzah, the project manager of RESTRORE+, the organization behind the initiative, said the app, called Urundata, was available on the Google Play store. Hidayah said the project had started in November and would run until March. Participants, she said, would receive a status as #PahlawanData (data heroes). “At the moment, we are aiming for 1.8 million participants, especially youths or university students,” she said, adding that the activity was conducted in four other provinces as well. The data collected, she said, would form the basis for a land and forest restoration map that the government and other parties could use for restoration efforts. She...