The Environment and Forestry Ministry enforced several sanctions on a perpetrator, who illegally managed dangerous waste in a social forest area in Karawang, .
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia Authorities in Indonesia have charged three men, including a local political leader in Sumatra, with selling body parts from a Sumatran tiger, a critically endangered and protected species. Ahmadi, 41, the former head of Bener Meriah district in Aceh province, was arrested by provincial police along with two alleged accomplices while […]
Indonesian omnibus law’s ‘whitewash’ of illegal palm oil shocks its architects
Indonesian lawmakers appear outraged at a scheme from a law they already passed that grants amnesty to oil palm plantations operating illegally inside forest areas.
The amnesty scheme gives the operators a grace period of three years to apply for the proper paperwork, including a redesignation of the forest they’re illegally occupying to a non-forest designation.
The lawmakers, who overwhelmingly approved the law last November despite near-universal criticism, have called the scheme “whitewashing” and “eco-terrorism.”
One even expressed his own regret at not being a “forest thief” had he only known how lucrative it would be.