Jakarta, December 20, 2017, on Wednesday, December 20, 2017 the delegation of Organizations / Institutions from West Sumatra came to the Directorate General of Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to report suspected criminal acts of corporations (timber companies) operating in the Mentawai Islands Regency. The timber company is PT. Minas Pagai […]
Jakarta, February 28th 2018. FWI presented in three periods North Sumatera, East Kalimantan, and North Maluku had lost 718.000 hectare of their natural forest. Every hours, natural forest as big as 42 times of soccer field had gone on those three provinces. JPIK assessment to 296 Sustainable Production Forest Management (PHPL) IUIPHHK-HA (Logging Concession) and
A. Background Illegal logging in Indonesia reached its peak after the fall of President Soeharto and the reform era began. The economic crisis and legal uncertainty after the transition of power are well utilized by a number of people who have the influence to exploit forest resources, especially tropical timber which has high commercial value.
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The latest report on the Network of Independent Forestry Monitors (JPIK) – the Loss of Our Forests and Peatlands – reveals systematic and extensive encroachment, as well as illegal logging within the Sebangau National Park (Sebangau National Park) reaching up to the rehabilitation zone and jungle zone. JPIK’s repeated monitoring from the end of 2016
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The Civil Society Coordination Forum (FKMS) suggest on the Government to improving the ISPO immediately and fix the substance of the draft Presidential Regulation (Perpres) on the Sustainable Palm Oil Certification System (ISPO) and improve its drafting process to be more transparent and participatory before the draft regulation was passed. FKMS considers that the draft
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Indonesian civil society groups recommend to the Government of Indonesia, the European Union, Certification Institutions and business actors in the forestry and trade sectors to increase transparency, increase supervision and law enforcement, review licensing, increase and improve SVLK as a system, as well as Europe Union as timber importir from Indonesia must ensure effective handling
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