The Ministry of Forestry (Kemenhut) has destroyed 775 hectares of oil palm plantations in Tesso Nilo National Park (TN), Riau, during the period May to July 2025.
The Forest Area Control Task Force (PKH Task Force) has also patrolled 993 points on the TN Tesso Nilo location to prevent forest fires that threaten elephant and tiger habitats in the conservation area.
"We have destroyed more than 700 hectares of palm oil in the Tesso Nilo TN area, and during the period May to July 2025, our personnel continue to carry out activities in the field," said Secretary of the Directorate General of Forestry Law Enforcement, Lukita Awang Nistyantara. reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, July 23.
The Ministry of Transportation is also optimizing Manggala Agni Village Companion to cooperate with the community in order to map the area to prevent fires through the absorption of village funds.
Currently, the Ministry of Transportation is more focused on prevention in the context of controlling forest fires, because it is considered effective rather than having to spend a lot of money on extinguishing when forest fires occur.
"If there has been a fire, it is difficult to make efforts to extinguish the fire, even though we are still extinguishing it, but it is more important to prevent it," he said.
Previously, the Minister of Forestry (Menhut), Raja Juli Antoni said the government had prepared relocation land for residents who had lived in the Tesso Nilo TN area as part of an effort to rehabilitate the conservation area.
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"The affected communities are expected to relocate independently, but the government has also prepared relocation land for the community," said the Minister of Forestry.
He said the relocation process was being prepared by the Post-Owned Recovery Acceleration Team (TP4) TN Tesso Nilo which was formed by the Governor of Riau. Some of the team's duties, including compiling plans for the relocation of affected communities, preparing relocation areas and social assistance schemes and carrying out the execution of the relocation as agreed.
Regarding the progress of returning the designation of the conservation area, the Minister of Forestry said a number of parties had voluntarily handed over their plantations and the illegal oil palm plantations had been destroyed, including on an area of 401 hectares on June 29, 2025 and on an area of 311 hectares on July 2, 2025.
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