Regional Office Demands Shifts on License

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta : East Kalimantan Provincial Forestry Office requested the Ministry of Forestry to put tougher sanctions against companies that avoids their obligations to replant the deforested areas in the province.

Head of the regional forestry office Budi Pranowo said there are more timber companies avoiding their obligations than the ones that had been banned by the ministry. The ministry revoked the operating license of 43 timber companies, six of which were operating in East Kalimantan.

Budi said his office have regularly report the activities of timber companies to the ministry and is proposing the ministry to revoke more license to be given to other timber companies which fulfill their obligation to replant their operating areas. Budi refused to mention the name of companies.

Firman Hidayat