JAKARTA - The Gunung Halimun Salak National Park Center (TN) invites illegal miners to preserve conservation forest areas so that in the future they do not cause natural disasters.
"We continue to provide guidance and education to illegal miners in order to stop their activities," said Head of the TN Office, Budi Chandra, as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, December 4.
So far, TN officers have been monitoring and securing the conservation forest area so that illegal miners have the awareness to maintain and preserve forests.
This is because the destruction of conservation forests can cause natural disasters, such as those in North Sumatra, West Sumatra and Aceh.
Therefore, his party is scheduled to patrol the conservation forest area of TN with an area of 105,072 hectares spread across Lebak Regency, Bogor Regency, and Sukabumi Regency, West Java.
They officers in the field visited the location of the gold mining hole without a permit by conducting guidance involving local conservation cadres in order to maintain and preserve conservation forest areas.
The guidance of these illegal miners should stop their activities to become forest police partners and conservation partners.
"We cannot fight back, but we are invited and involved by illegal miners as forest conservation partners for future generations so that the ecological forest environment is not damaged," he said.
Meanwhile, the Head of the Banten Environment and Forestry Agency, Wawan Gunawan, said the local government empowers people in forest areas so that they do not carry out illegal mining activities in TN.
Local governments help empower them with honey bee training and fungal assistance.
In addition, the assistance of seeds from various trees for planting and fertilizers and wages has also been prepared.
"We are committed to helping empower residents around the TN to keep them from returning as illegal miners," said Wawan.
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