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View all search resultsMinistry secures logs from suspected illegal logging at N. Sumatra sawmills
Law enforcement of illegal logging actitvities are aimed at tracing the origins of the wooden logs, checking their documents and ensuring timbers entering processing industry has proper legality.
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he Forestry Ministry seized thousands of wooden logs believed to be from illegal logging activities in several sawmills in North Sumatra while military personnel secured two trucks carrying logs from illegal logging in Dairi regency.
The ministry’s law enforcement director general Dwi Januanto Nugroho said securing logs from illegal logging was part of a series of crackdown operations on the distribution of forest products in North Sumatra.
He said the series of operations showed that forestry crime perpetrators are becoming more adaptive in capitalizing loopholes in forest products governance.
Dwi said that when supervision is tightened, perpetrators adapt by finding ways to avoid law enforcers. Therefore, law enforcement must also move swiftly to read about changes in crime patterns.
“The state must close supply chain gaps, ensure the industry does not become a place to dump illegal logs and prevent the sale of logs without legitimate origins,” he said in a statement on Friday.
He emphasized that the operations served to protect forest sustainability, secure state revenue and provide certainty for legal forest product businesses.
The ministry’s law enforcement agency Sumatra region head Hari Novianto said the operations found many suspected violations regarding forest product legality at several sawmills.
