JAKARTA - The Ministry of Forestry (Kemenhut) responded to a video of logs being swept away by floods in North Sumatra that they most likely came from Land Rights Holders (PHAT) who were in other use areas (APL).
"We detect that it is from the PHAT in APL. PHAT is the holder of land rights. In the logging area that we detect from the PHAT in APL, it is indeed mechanismally for the wood that grows naturally following forestry regulations, in this case SIPU, the Forest Results Arrangement Information System," said Director General of Law Enforcement (Gakkum) of the Ministry of Law, Dwi Januanto Nugroho at a press conference in Jakarta, Friday, confiscated by Antara.
Temporary suspicion, he said, was that the wood used for slashing had been rotten and then dragged by the flood. A thorough examination still needs to be carried out by the Ministry of Law and Human Rights team considering that flood events are still happening today.
He admitted that Gakkum Kemenhut often carries out operations to dismantle the modus operandi of illegal timber laundering resulting from illegal logging through PHAT. Including finding a number of cases in areas that are now affected by flooding in Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra.
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Asked if there was a possibility that the wood was the result of illegal timber laundering through the PHAT scheme, Dwi Januanto said that he did not rule out the potential for the wood to come from a similar mode.
"Friends are still checking, yes, but we will signal there," he explained.
Previously, the video footage uploaded on social media allegedly came from South Tapanuli and Central Tapanuli in North Sumatra showing logs being carried away by the flood.
A number of netizens linked the wood to the deforestation phenomenon in the Sumatra region which was affected by floods and landslides in recent times.
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