OBJECTIVE FORESTRY

Detailed explanation-1: -Scorched-earth policy was a military strategy adopted by the Dutch during the Second World War. Dutch troops deliberately torched everything to destroy Javanese resources like wood, so that it would not fall into the hands of the Japanese, who also colonised Indonesia.

Detailed explanation-2: -During war, Russia followed the policy of scorched earth policy which can be best described as: Q.

Detailed explanation-3: -(iii) In Java, before the Japanese occupied the region, the Dutch followed ‘a scorched Earth policy’, by destroying sawmills and burning huge piles of teaks logs, so that it would not fall into the hands of Japanese.