JAKARTA - The Ministry of Forestry (Kemenhut) continues the legal process of the head of the Berbak Sembilang National Park (TNBS) forest encroachment group by handing over the case file to the Jambi High Prosecutor's Office.
Head of the Forestry Law Enforcement Agency for the Sumatra Region, Hari Novianto, explained that BS was the head of a group of perambah in the TNBS in Rantau Rasau Village, East Tanjung Jabung Regency, Jambi.
"This massive land clearing activity covering an area of 600 hectares not only damages the forest ecosystem, but also has the potential to damage the hydrological function of peat. This damage is very dangerous because it can trigger forest and land fires that are difficult to extinguish and threaten wildlife habitats," said Hari as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, January 13.
The Sumatran Forestry Gakkum Office has handed over the suspect BS to the Jambi High Prosecutor's Office Prosecutor to be immediately tried.
With the issuance of P-21 from the Jambi High Prosecutor's Office, the case file of the suspect was declared complete and the suspect and evidence were immediately handed over to the JPU.
According to him, the activity of encroachment in the TNBS area is carried out in a coordinated manner and is established in the form of a legal entity in the form of a farmer group consisting of more than 150 people with a land claim area of approximately 600 hectares. For each member who wants to own land, then by the farmer group it is charged a fee of Rp. 15 million per hectare.
Of the 600 hectares claimed, almost 100 hectares have been planted by the group. Suspect BS also has land that has been planted with oil palm in the area of 5 hectares.
The suspect BS is threatened with a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of Rp5 billion.
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