Koalisi Eyes on the Forest menerbitkan laporan analisis dan investigatif terhadap 26 lokasi kebun sawit di Provinsi Riau yang merupakan bagian kecil dari 1,6 juta hektar kawasan hutan yang diubah menjadi kawasan bukan hutan berdasarkan Keputusan Menteri Kehutanan
President Joko Widodo called stern measures against companies involved in forest and land fires burning by rescinding their licenses, media report said today.
Sumatra, Lack of governance, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, Alam Lestari, APP, APRIL, Balai Kayang Mandiri, Bina Daya Bintara, Burhanuddin Husin, corruption, deforestation, forest graft, license, logging, Mutiara Lestari, NTFP, Persada Karya Sejati, pulp and paper industry, pulpwood plantation, RAPP, Riau Corruption Trial, Rimba Mandau Lestari, Selaras Abadi Utama, Siak Raya, timber supplier, Tuah Negeri
Recent trials of forestry corruption with defendant Burhanuddin Husin, former Riau Forestry Service Head at Pekanbaru’s Corruption Crime Court presented witnesses telling irregularities found in ground checking.
Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, APRIL, Azmun Jaafar, Bakti Praja Mulya, Burhanuddin Husein, corruption, EoF, forest graft, forestry corruptors, KPK, license, Mitra Tani Nusa Sejati, Pelalawan, Putri Lindung Bulan, Riau, Rimba Mutiara Permai, Selaras Abadi Utama, Syuhada, timber supplier, Tuah Negeri
A former Forestry Service head in Riau province was charged of five year imprisonment by Anti-corruption Court in Pekanbaru on Wednesday for found guilty of receiving bribery and fee from companies as he issued logging licenses for several timber companies.
Asia Pulp and Paper is still clearcutting tropical rainforest as realities found by Eyes on the Forest investigation in the company’s subsidiary, PT Arara Abadi of district Nilo, in Tesso Nilo forest block, Sumatra’s Riau Province.
Police planned to disperse residents of Padang island whom staged rallies and had been staying near House of Representatives’ compound in Jakarta for one month as eight hospitalized and one treated in a mental hospital.
Civil society organizations in Riau Province: Jikalahari, Walhi Riau, Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Riau, Transparansi Internasional Indonesia (TII), Kantor Bantuan Hukum (KBH) Riau and Hakiki urge the Government of Indonesia to revoke concession license of PT Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (RAPP) in Kampar Peninsula due to it threatens unique ecosystem in the world.
Today Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Sumatran environmental NGOs, called on all companies who are clearcutting natural forests based on Industrial Timber Plantation Licenses (IUPHHK-HT) issued by Governors or Heads of Districts to immediately issue a moratorium on all such operations.