BANDA ACEH, KOMPAS – Environmental sustainability in Aceh is increasingly threatened due to illegal logging that continues to occur in forest areas. On March 17, a joint team from the Great Hall of Mount Leuser National Park, the Aceh Regional Police and the forestry service confiscated 105 cubic meters of illegal timber from the forests […]

PT. Arara Abadi is one of the Industrial Forest Industry (HTI) companies in Riau which also part of the Sinarmas Group managed to imprison one of the BONO tour guides in Sungai Kampar, Hendri Bin Apan (25 th), a resident of Teluk Meranti on 16 March 2014. Pelalawan with an arrest warrant number: SK.Kep /

BLORA – JPIK (Central Forestry Independent Monitoring Network) with LBH (Semarang Legal Aid Institute) has met Suwono (68 years) at the GERAM secretariat (Gerakan Rakyat Gugat) Blora (03/13/2014). The presence of JPIK and LBH Semarang to conduct an investigation related to the alleged seizure of land owned by Suwono in Tanggel village, Randublatung Blora sub-district

Bogor, March 11, 2014. Sugar cane plantations covering an area of 480 thousand ha are planned to be opened above a total of 770 thousand ha of Aru island land. This discourse is very threatening to the existence of around 730 thousand ha of natural forest found in the Aru Islands. Since the beginning of

Implementation and proposed revisions and their implications for the rights of indigenous peoples to their space and natural resources The Papua and West Papua Provincial Governments are conducting a revision of the Papua and West Papua Provincial Spatial Planning (RTRWP) to the Ministry of Forestry, for Changes in the Designation and Function of Forest Areas.

Indigenous communities in the Arfak Mountains conveyed several recommendation points to Timdu from the Director General of Planology of the Ministry of Forestry-RI at the Policy Dialogue on the Vision and Mission of the West Papua RTRWP in Manokwari, February 7-8 2014. Based on the Public Consultation meeting on 6 November 2013 in Bogor organized

According to Dwi Sudharto, Director General of BPPHH-Ministry of Forestry: “SVLK is the solution, where the practice of illegal logging has indeed peaked in history in 2006, but since 2009 with the birth of P.38 / 2009, the practice has been decreasing. Although he admitted, in the practice field it is still often found. The

As the Companies change, but the fate of indigenous peoples remains the same. It’s like it’s fallen, hit by a ladder again. Wood snares were taken away, only companies were angry, while people were still languishing on the spot. PT. Wijaya Sentosa (Sinar WIjaya Sentosa Group) is a forestry sector management unit in Dusner, Teluk

Students of the Faculty of Forestry, Papua State University (UNIPA) joined in Silva Branch Manokwari, urged the PT. Medco Papua Hijau Selaras (MPHS) is responsible for material losses suffered by the people of Wariwori and Mansaburi villages, in the Masni District. A number of UNIPA students packed the pages of the Manokwari Regency DPRD office