Deforestation became a major environmental problem in Indonesia and Brazil a few years ago. As the population of both countries has increased impressively, the demand of people to exploit the forest by felling the trees for their habitat and for agriculture has also increased at the same time. Currently, 70 percent of the world's terrestrial forests have been reduced for the benefit of humans, leading to negative environmental impacts including habitat loss, climate change and extinction. wildlife (“Deforestation”, 2013). The objective of this essay is to compare deforestation in Indonesia and Brazil. It examines the amount and rate of deforestation, the amount of carbon emissions, and government policies on deforestation in the two countries. First, a major similarity in deforestation between Brazil and Indonesia is the amount and rate of forest devastation. In Indonesia, around 50 percent of Sumatra's forests were massively destroyed between 1985 and 2008, completely transforming the landscape of the island of Sumatra (Watts, 2013). According to Butler (2013), nearly 158,000 square kilometers of Indonesian forest had disappeared by the end of 2012. Additionally, the rate of deforestation in Indonesia continued to increase over the following decades. Similarly, forest loss in Brazil was also considered the second highest between 2000 and 2012, approximately 361,000 square kilometers (Butler, 2013). The rate of deforestation in Brazil increased by more than 28 percent between August 2012 and July 2013, particularly in some states near the Amazon region where the total amount of deforestation is approximately 5,843 square kilometers. .....government policies towards deforestation. This indicates that Indonesia is experiencing a high amount and rate of deforestation, as well as an excessive amount of carbon emissions from deforestation, likely the same as Brazil. On the other hand, these two countries have different government policies to limit the problem of deforestation. While the Indonesian government is more supportive of the forest area protection program, the Brazilian government is focusing more on monitoring and enforcement. In order to permanently solve the problem of deforestation in both countries, citizens should decrease activities that lead to deforestation and strictly follow government policies. Works Cited (“Deforestation”, 2013), Butler (2013), (Watts, 2013), (“Deforestation in Brazil up 28%”, 2013), (Arga, 2007), (Karstensen et al, 2013), (Fogarty, 2012), (Assunção et al., 2013).