Britain's Prince Charles carries a wreath during a visit to a cemetery to pay his respects to members of the Commonwealth who died during World War 2 in Jakarta Nov. 3, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    JAKARTA, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Britain's Prince Charles met with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday, discussing issues of global warming and the ties between the Islamand the West, state spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said.

    On global warming, Prince Charles pledged his strong commitment to looking for funding for protecting rain forest, including developed countries and private sectors.

    Citing world climate change as one of the threats on health sector, the Prince said the International Union for the Conservation of Nature identified last week that at least 12 deadly diseases, including cholera and ebola, would rise as the rising of global temperature.

    "Relying on forest to observe carbon is much cheaper than that of the cost on relying with technology of carbon observing which cost about 50 U.S. dollar per ton," said Prince Charles on his lecture at the State Palace here.

    Unfortunately, he said the rate of rainforest destruction in the world had reached more than 12 million hectares per year, triggering the creation of carbon emission which is larger than that resulted from transportation sector.

    Developing countries with rain forest had sought compensation from developed countries for protection of the forest, which was rejected, especially by the United Stated which did not signed the Kyoto Protocol along with Australia, the Prince said.

    Prince Charles arrived here Thursday for a five-day visit to the country which has the third-largest rainforest area in the world, with 120 million hectares.

    The British government has developed its rainforest protection project, Harapan Rainforest Project, in Jambi province of Sumatra Island. The prince visited the project on Sunday.