JAKARTA - The Forest Area Regulation Task Force (Satgas PKH) ensures that it will prosecute legal subjects that cause flood and landslide disasters in Aceh, North Sumatra (Sumut), and West Sumatra (Sumbar).

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"The PKH Task Force has taken steps to identify criminal acts and will further ensure who is criminally responsible for the disaster that occurred," said the Head of the PKH Task Force Implementation Team and also the Head of the Attorney General's Office, Febrie Adriansyah, at the Attorney General's Office, Jakarta, Monday, quoted by Antara.

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Febrie revealed that his party had bagged the identity, location, and criminal acts that had occurred.

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"Not only individuals, corporations will also be held criminally responsible," he said.

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

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"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.

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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.

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

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"The PKH Task Force, which is in the Presidential Regulation (Perpres), is indeed for forest area control, we will optimize it as quickly as possible to carry out improvements and governance in addition to the criminal prosecution process," he said.

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On Monday, the PKH Task Force held a coordination meeting chaired by Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin as Chairman of the PKH Task Force Steering Board, to discuss the results of the investigation related to disasters in Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra provinces.

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The meeting was attended by Attorney General ST Burhanuddin, Minister of Forestry Raja Juli Antoni, Minister of Land and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Nusron Wahid, Head of the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency (Kabareskrim) Komjen Pol. Syahardiantono, and others.

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