Six arrested for illegal logging
JAYAPURA: Police in Jayapura, Papua, arrested six employees from two forestry companies for alleged illegal logging outside approved forest concession areas, causing Rp 234 billion (US$24.8 million) in losses to the state.
The chief of detectives at the provincial police headquarters Sr. Comr. Paulus Waterpauw, said in Jayapura on Thursday that six suspects working for PT Kaltim Hutama and PT Centrico were arrested for alleged theft of 13,000 cubic meters of hard wood in Kaimana and Nabire regencies.
“The suspects will be charged with violating the forestry law which carries a maximum 20-year jail sentence,” he said, adding that one of the suspects was a regional manager of PT Centrico.
The cases will be processed and brought to court after the case files are completed, he said. –JP
Source: The Jakarta Post
June 18th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
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June 19th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Illegal logging is a plea, and should be fought against with more vigour from everybody, because it is the lungs of the Earth that are being illegaly destroyed (not that legal logging is much better sometimes…).
Anyway, I discovered recently that the European Union had a loophole in its legislature that allowed for illegally logged trees to enter EU territory! This is just unnaceptable!!
The EU should meet in July and decide whether or not to close that legal loophole. Unfortunately, lobbying in favor of illegal logging is very strong, and that’s why Greenpeace launched a petition to make pressure on the EU (from the environmental side!) to act in favour of our forests!
You can sign the petition at: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/forests/eu-ban-illegal-timber
Thanks for helping Greenpeace saving the Earth!!