BBKSDA Papua Admits There Is Land Burning In Cycloop Mountains Nature Reserve

Illustration. Karhutla outage in Jambi.(ANTARA-Nanang Mairiadi)

PAPUA - The Center for Natural Resources Conservation (BBKSDA) for the Papua region stated that law enforcement has never been carried out against residents who deliberately burned land in the Cycloop Mountains Nature Reserve (CAPC) area due to certain considerations.The Technical Division of Natural Resources Conservation (KSDA) BBKSDA Papua region Yulius Palita said that the prosecution and submission of cases had not been carried out because there were considerations to see the severity of the cases made by the community. The level of forest management is not directly enforced but must look at cases per case so it requires a long process up to the legal process," he said in Sentani, Papua, Friday, September 1, confiscated by Antara.

According to him, there are still people who plant in the nature reserve area so that serious attention is needed from all parties, not only BBKSDA or the Forest Police (Polhut).

"This problem must indeed be a shared responsibility and special attention must be given so that forest additions no longer occur," he said. Yulius explained that surveillance of CAPCs continues to be carried out both by patrols and maintenance of ecosystems outside and within the nature reserve. "We have to sit together with all parties, especially local governments, indigenous communities, those who like to burn the nature reserve area to talk about this problem so that a solution exists, "he said. Even though he was aware, this is not merely the handling of the conservation of the CAPC problem, but the economic resources of the community must be taken into account properly.. "In my opinion, this is not a problem of forest handling but there is an economic function in it so that the Discussion Group Forum (FGD) needs to be held so that this problem can be resolved together," he said.