3 Illegal Executors In Jambi Forests Arrested, 130 Rod Kayumankan

Police documentation in Jambi Province arrested three perpetrators of forest logging and confiscated hundreds of wood bars of various types. ANTARA/HO/Polda Jambi

JAMBI - Jambi Regional Police arrested the hands of three forest protesters who were cutting down trees without a permit and confiscating evidence in the form of hundreds of padding wood.

The Head of Public Relations of the Jambi Police, Police Commissioner Mulia Prianto, confirmed that the police arrested their hands in Tangkit Village, Sungai Gelam District, Muarojambi, Jambi Province.

"He was secured while they were swiping the wood", he said in Jambi, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, September 6.

Mulia said the arrests were based on community reports. When the police arrived at the scene, the three perpetrators could not show their official logging licenses.

The three perpetrators who were arrested had the initials SU (54), AG (34), and DA (31), one resident of Muarojambi and two other perpetrators, residents of Jambi.

"They are suspected of committing the crime of individuals who deliberately transport, control or have wood forest products that are not accompanied by a valid certificate of forest products", he said.

Prianto said the confiscated evidence consisted of about 130 bearing logs of various types, including mixed jungle wood, punctuation wood, and meranti wood, about 2.5 cubic meters of processed wood, and a set of wood cutting machines.

"We have detained the three perpetrators and are still in the process of developing and examining them", he concluded.