Tim Gabungan Tertibkan Tambang Liar Timah Di DAS Bendul Bangka Barat

The joint team carried out mining control.liar in Bendul Watershed, Deaa Airputih, Mentok. (ANTARA/HO-Himad West Bangka Police)

The joint team in West Bangka Regency, Bangka Belitung Islands, has curbed tin ore illegal mining activities in the Bendul Watershed (DAS), Muntok District, because it does not comply with applicable regulations.

"We have ordered activities at the bendel watershed estuary and we have conveyed an appeal so that miners do not repeat tin ore mining at that location," said West Bangka Police Unit Head Iptu Sugiyanto as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, May 19.

He said controlling illegal mining activities was carried out by the West Bangka Police Satpolair Team together with the Baharkam Patrol Vessel at the National Police Headquarters, the Patrol Vessel of the Polairud Directorate of the Babel Police, the Intelligence Unit, the West Bangka Police Satreskrim, and the Posmat Mentok Navy.

"When the joint team came to the location, there were no mining activities at that location, but we found several mining workers at the location," he said.

The officers had a dialogue with the miners and asked them not to carry out tin ore mining activities at that location anymore because it damaged the sustainability of the Bendul watershed environment.

The team conveyed to workers and mining equipment owners to immediately leave the location within a mutually agreed time.

This is done to ensure that mining activities do not happen again at the mouth of the Bendul River due to environmental damage

"If within 24 hours this appeal is not heeded, then we will come back to control and enforce the law in accordance with applicable regulations," he said.