Sunday 14 March 2010

Government Asked to Handle Serious Illegal Logging

Government Asked to Handle Serious Illegal Logging

Wed, Feb 24, 2010 National

Jakarta (Berita): House of Representatives Commission IV asked the government to seriously address the issue of Illegal Logging for since 2005 until now still going deforestation in some parts of Indonesia.

"We ask the government in this case the Ministry of Forestry to address this immediately to avoid more destruction of our forests," said Nabiel Al Mussawa (F-MCC) at the Working Meeting with Minister of Forestry Zulkifli Hasan, led by the Chairman of the House of Representatives Commission IV Akhmad Muqowam, the House of Representatives Jakarta, Monday.

Related to this Nabiel requested that the Minister of Forestry explain these issues honestly considering deforestation still occurs in almost all forest areas in Indonesia, as in West Kalimantan Sanggo reach 4 thousand ha., Kapuas 10 thousand ha. 3 companies do. "Does this company have been given permission or given a warning," he asked.

Nabiel further asked how far the government's attention on neglected land in the Province of West and East Kalimantan, which reached 500 thousand hectares. "Does the land have also displaced the attention of the Government, especially the ministers of Forestry since land can be saved and utilized for the interests of the nation and state," said Nabiel.

Meanwhile, Minister of Forestry Zulkifli Hassan said it had completed forest spatial structure which has reached seven provinces but South Kalimantan, Lampung, Central Java, Yogyakarta, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara and South Sulawesi do not want to change its forest area.

Zulkifli Hasan added that there are nine Province is in the process of integrated research, namely West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, West Sumatra, Kepuloan Riau, Bengkulu, Jambi, Sulawesi and Babylon, while the province's six stages of proposal delivery and integrated research, among others, North Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, Sulbar, North Sumatra, West Java and Banten.

Commission IV Working Meeting with Minister of Forestry House agree to twelve points among other conclusions, the House Commission IV requested that the Minister conveyed his budget plans specifically to achieve reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 14% within 10 years, and the work plan and budget of prevention and eradication of illegal logging zero.

House of Representatives Commission IV also requested that the Ministry of Forestry immediately create derivative rules and regulations No. 10 Year 2010 on Procedures and Functions Appropriation Changes of Forest Area, and Commission IV of the House requested the Minister of Forestry to take stern action against the user firms conservation forest, protected forest, and production forests that do not have a permit and did not meet its obligations in accordance with the Act Number 41 Year 1999 on Forestry.

House of Representatives Commission IV will form a Working Committee
(Panja) Use Forest Area in order to carry out oversight functions related to the overlapping cases and violations of licensing the use of forest areas, and the House Commission IV requested that the Ministry of Forestry to conduct a thorough evalusai state environmental performance results Forestry Ministry. ( aya)