Involve TNI In Ordering Forest Areas, Ministry Of Transportation: Forms Of Collaboration

Director General of Gakkum Kemenhut Dwi Januanto Nugroho (center) was met by reporters after a press conference at the Jakarta Ministry of Law and Human Rights Office, Thursday (20/3/2025) ANTARA/Prisca Triferna

The Ministry of Forestry (Kemenhut) said that controlling forest areas involving all elements, including the TNI, is a form of collaboration in the Forest Area Control Task Force.

He conveyed this to answer questions regarding the role of the TNI in efforts to control the use of illegal forest land, which is mostly used for plantations, including for palm oil.

"In principle, we support, we even use the Forest Area Control Task Force to always be intense to find solutions, which are indeed in the realm of forestry and assisted by the Forest Area Control Task Force, so it can be collaborative, the form of the state is present in my opinion," said the Director General of Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Law, Dwi Januanto Nugroho, when met after a press conference in Jakarta, Thursday, March 20, was confiscated by Antara.

"So there are no excessive worries, even we are helped," he continued.

Januanto explained that the handling of illegal use in forest areas was carried out in collaboration as a work for various elements of the government, including the TNI.

"There are TNI, there are sectors, there are also prosecutors. Hopefully we can improve governance which has been historically long," he said.

Previously, the Forest Area Control Task Force had taken simultaneous control measures in 19 provinces in Indonesia, including from North Sumatra to Papua. The effort has been carried out in the period from February 24 to March 18, 2025, targeting hundreds of thousands of hectares of illegal use in forest areas.

The task force was led by the Minister of Defense (Menhan) Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin which was formed through Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 5 of 2025 concerning controlling forest areas and signed by President Prabowo Subianto on January 21, 2025.