JAKARTA - The Forest Area Regulation Task Force (Satgas PKH) revealed that there were 31 companies that were being investigated regarding the flash flood disaster that occurred in Aceh Province, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra.

Commander of the PKH Garuda Task Force, Major General TNI Dody Triwinarto, said there were nine companies in Aceh that were investigated.

"There are nine companies directly related to the river basin (DAS)," he said, quoted by ANTARA, Monday, December 15.

In North Sumatra, there are eight parties, including with the PHT group (land rights holders). One company that is being handled by the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Police has risen to the investigation stage.

Meanwhile, in the West Sumatra region, there are 14 companies from three river basin areas. "The allegations against existing legal entities, local company entities, are estimated to be 14," he said.

The Head of the PKH Task Force Implementation Team and Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) of the Attorney General's Office, Febrie Adriansyah, emphasized that the task force would prosecute perpetrators of crimes that caused disasters in the three provinces.

Febrie revealed that his party had bagged the identity, location, and criminal acts that had occurred. "Not only individuals, corporations will also be held criminally responsible," he said.

In addition to criminal punishment, he continued, the PKH Task Force will also impose administrative sanctions in the form of licensing evaluations.

"If they have a permit, an evaluation will be carried out on the permits that have been issued to corporations that are indicated to be the legal subjects of criminal liability that has occurred," he said.

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Not only that, the PKH Task Force will calculate the environmental damage losses and will impose the obligation to restore the state as an impact of the disaster that occurred, to the parties who will be held accountable.

Febrie said that in order to prevent the recurrence of disaster events, the government would evaluate regulations in the environmental, forestry, spatial planning, energy, and natural resources sectors, including improvements to overall governance.

Hopefully, if regulations and governance are improved, then the large flood and landslide disasters will not be repeated.

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